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Self-Construction and the Formation of Human Values: Truth, Language, and Desire - Brossura

Kiros, Teodros

 
9780275973148: Self-Construction and the Formation of Human Values: Truth, Language, and Desire
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ISBN 10: 027597314X ISBN 13: 9780275973148
Casa editrice: Praeger, 2001

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A theoretical defense of the potential of ordinary individuals to empower themselves through the construction of values.|This volume presents a theoretical defense of the potential of ordinary individuals to construct values and through them to become self-empowering, responsible participants in a democratic community. Rather than conceiving of power as domination, the author identifies true power as self-empowerment, a notion based on self-construction. He proposes the vision of an authentically free self filled with a compassion that is a composite of reason and feeling. Such a composite self does not consciously manipulate language, truth, and desire to dominate and subordinate other individuals, but uses them to construct values and norms that can enrich others. To support his argument the author draws on both classical and contemporary philosophers, as well as on literary sources.

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TEODROS KIROS is Master Lecturer in Philosophy at Suffolk University and Associate-in-Residence in the Department of Afro-American Studies, Harvard University. He is the author of Toward the Construction of a Theory of Political Action: Antonio Gramsci (1985), Moral Philosophy and Development: The Human Condition in Africa (1992), and numerous journal articles. He is an editor of New Political Science and co-editor of The Promise of Multiculturalism (1998).



TEODROS KIROS is Master Lecturer in Philosophy at Suffolk University and Associate-in-Residence in the Department of Afro-American Studies, Harvard University. He is the author of Toward the Construction of a Theory of Political Action: Antonio Gramsci (1985), Moral Philosophy and Development: The Human Condition in Africa (1992), and numerous journal articles. He is an editor of New Political Science and co-editor of The Promise of Multiculturalism (1998).

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Editore
Praeger
Data di pubblicazione
2001
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
027597314X
ISBN 13 
9780275973148
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
224
Contatto del produttore
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