The Geography of Good and Evil: Philosophical Investigations (Paperback or Softback)

Kinneging, Andreas

ISBN 10: 1610170040 / ISBN 13: 9781610170048

Editore: Intercollegiate Studies Institute 6/4/2011, 2011

The Geography of Good and Evil: Philosophical Investigations. Codice articolo BBS-9781610170048

Riassunto:

Do good and evil exist? Absolutely.

In this bracing book, the eminent Dutch philosopher Andreas Kinneging turns fashionable thinking on its head, revealing how good and evil are objective, universal, and unchanging—and how they must be rediscovered in our age.

In mapping the geography of good and evil, Kinneging reclaims, and reintroduces us to, the great tradition of ancient and Christian thought. Traditional wisdom enables us to address the eternal questions of good and evil that confront us in both public and private life. Though it is common to accept uncritically the blessings of modernity and its intellectual sources, the Enlightenment and Romanticism, Kinneging shows that traditional thinking is richer and more realistic. Indeed, we see how, in more than a few respects, the Enlightenment and Romanticism brought not progress but deterioration. Kinneging skillfully reformulates and defends the insights of traditional thinking for today's readers, demonstrating how an objective morality is to be understood and how we can know what morality demands of us.

At a time when the traditional virtues have practically disappeared from our language (that is, all but one—"tolerance"), he lays out the foundations of virtue and vice. Ultimately, Kinneging reveals the lasting significance of these seemingly archaic notions—to our own lives, to our families, to our culture, and to civilization.

This profound, award-winning work establishes Andreas Kinneging as one of our wisest moral philosophers.

Informazioni sull?autore: Andreas Kinneging, a professor of legal philosophy at the University of Leiden (Netherlands), was awarded the Socrates prize in 2006 for the best Dutch book in the field of philosophy.

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Titolo: The Geography of Good and Evil: ...
Casa editrice: Intercollegiate Studies Institute 6/4/2011
Data di pubblicazione: 2011
Legatura: Paperback or Softback
Condizione: New
Edizione: seconda edizione
Tipologia articolo: Book