Elements of Ethics

Peperzak, Adriaan Theodoor

ISBN 10: 0804747709 / ISBN 13: 9780804747707

Editore: Stanford Univ Press, 2004

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• Titolo: Elements of Ethics
• Editore: Stanford Univ Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0804747709
• ISBN 13: 9780804747707
• Rilegatura: Trade Paperback
• Condizione: Very Good
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
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Riassunto

This work renews the basic questions and principles of philosophical ethics and provides a thorough account of how being oneself presupposes freedom and responsibility. Elements of Ethics focuses on the descriptive and conceptual analysis of the experiences through which human lives become aware of themselves and shows how we are provoked to respond appropriately to the various dimensions and phenomena of the universe.

Operating on the provocative thesis that "if the ethical is real, it cannot be proved, because it is either nothing at all or an irreducible origin," this book pursues the question that defines ethics: "How should I live?" After setting out a preliminary definition of terms, Elements of Ethics gives insight into the relation of human individuals and the world by showing that the traditional separation between "is" and "ought" overlooks their profound coincidence, and by clarifying the determining, though often overlooked, role of affectivity and katharsis in all ethical experiences.

Informazioni sull?autore

Adriaan T. Peperzak is Arthur J. Schmitt Professor in Philosophy at Loyola University, Chicago. He is the author or editor of over thirty books in five languages.