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On Moral Law and Quest for Selfhood

Author : Mohan Parasain
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1134875371
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book On Moral Law and Quest for Selfhood written by Mohan Parasain and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an original intersection of concepts from Immanuel Kant’s moral command ethics and Søren Kierkegaard’s existential ethics. The Kantian formulation of moral law is based on theoretical ground while Kierkegaardian ethics of the quest for selfhood views it as the very act of living. The present work provides an account of both these perspectives and questions whether these approaches to morality are mutually exclusionary. Using Slavoj Žižek’s ‘parallax view’ in the realm of morality, it argues that moral philosophy must engage with a constant critique of ‘difference’ around which the transformation of our various perspectives to morality revolves. This work appeals for furtherance of the conversation model and participation of perspectives to transcend ‘positional confinement’. It advocates the traversing of the ethical parallax to allow for intellectual openness and an empathetic perception of the ‘other’. Engaging and well-researched, this book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of ethics, political philosophy and continental philosophy.

On Moral Law and Quest for Selfhood

Author : Mohan Parasain
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134875304
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book On Moral Law and Quest for Selfhood written by Mohan Parasain and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an original intersection of concepts from Immanuel Kant’s moral command ethics and Søren Kierkegaard’s existential ethics. The Kantian formulation of moral law is based on theoretical ground while Kierkegaardian ethics of the quest for selfhood views it as the very act of living. The present work provides an account of both these perspectives and questions whether these approaches to morality are mutually exclusionary. Using Slavoj Žižek’s ‘parallax view’ in the realm of morality, it argues that moral philosophy must engage with a constant critique of ‘difference’ around which the transformation of our various perspectives to morality revolves. This work appeals for furtherance of the conversation model and participation of perspectives to transcend ‘positional confinement’. It advocates the traversing of the ethical parallax to allow for intellectual openness and an empathetic perception of the ‘other’. Engaging and well-researched, this book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of ethics, political philosophy and continental philosophy.

Environmental Humanities in India

Author : Debajyoti Biswas
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9819739330
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Environmental Humanities in India written by Debajyoti Biswas and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ricoeur, Literature and Imagination

Author : Sophie Vlacos
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501312243
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Ricoeur, Literature and Imagination written by Sophie Vlacos and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To explain more is to understand better". This is the mantra by which French philosopher Paul Ricoeur lived and worked, establishing himself as one of the twentieth century's most lucid and broad-ranging critical thinkers. A prisoner of war at 27, Ricoeur was also Dean of Paris X Nanterre during the student disturbances of 1968. In later years he became an outspoken champion of social justice. In work as in life, Ricoeur was committed to the challenges of conflict and the prospect of authentic resolution. Deeply indebted to phenomenology and the hermeneutical tradition of Heidegger and Gadamer, Ricoeur was also an advocate of structural linguistics, of psychoanalysis, and a rare conversant with the Anglo-American analytic tradition. This volume explores how literature and the conflicts of literary-theoretical debate inform Ricoeur's theory of imagination and understanding, and how Ricoeur's unique mode of literary reflection resolves the conflicts of literature's theoretical heyday, presaging a new direction for literary studies.

Self and the World

Author : John E. Skinner
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512818747
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Self and the World written by John E. Skinner and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Foundations of Moral Selfhood

Author : Andrew J. Dell'Olio
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foundations of Moral Selfhood written by Andrew J. Dell'Olio and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foundations of Moral Selfhood addresses the general issue of ethics and religion by examining the connection between the natural and theological virtues in the moral thought of Thomas Aquinas. While Aquinas is often invoked in contemporary discussions of virtue ethics, the interpenetration of the secular and religious dimensions of his thought is not often appreciated. Andrew J. Dell'Olio shows how Aquinas's metaphysics of goodness allows him to harmonize secular and religious virtues within the individual so as not to compromise the unity of the moral self. Aquinas is seen as presenting a theory of self-perfection that requires both self-development and self-abnegation, depicting each as ways of participating in the divine. The significance for contemporary virtue ethics of what Dell'Olio calls a «deep conception of the good» is also explored. Foundations of Moral Selfhood is relevant to the revival of Neo-Aristotelianism and Thomism in ethics, as well as to recent attempts to articulate forms of ethical Platonism and religious morality in a pluralistic society.

Witcraft

Author : Jonathan Rée
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300248806
Total Pages : 761 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Witcraft written by Jonathan Rée and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 761 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ambitious new history of philosophy in English that broadens the canon to include many lesser-known figures Ludwig Wittgenstein once wrote that “philosophy should be written like poetry.” But philosophy has often been presented more prosaically as a long trudge through canonical authors and great works. But what, Jonathan Rée asks, if we instead saw the history of philosophy as a haphazard series of unmapped forest paths, a mass of individual stories showing endurance, inventiveness, bewilderment, anxiety, impatience, and good humor? Here, Jonathan Rée brilliantly retells this history, covering such figures as Descartes, Locke, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Mill, James, Frege, Wittgenstein, and Sartre. But he also includes authors not usually associated with philosophy, such as William Hazlitt, George Eliot, Darwin, and W. H. Auden. Above all, he uncovers dozens of unremembered figures—puritans, revolutionaries, pantheists, feminists, nihilists, socialists, and scientists—who were passionate and active readers of philosophy, and often authors themselves. Breaking away from high-altitude narratives, he shows how philosophy finds its way into ordinary lives, enriching and transforming them in unexpected ways.

International Legal Personality

Author : Fleur Johns
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135156224X
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book International Legal Personality written by Fleur Johns and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who or what is entitled to act on the international plane? Where should responsibility for violations of international law lie? What sort of entities are capable of possessing international legal rights? What is the status of individuals, minority groups, non-governmental bodies, international organisations and animals in the international legal order and how has their status shifted over time? International Legal Personality contains fourteen articles that address these and related questions. In historical and contemporary writings, international lawyers grapple with the nature of legal identity, and confront global distributions of authority and responsibility, as they explore who or what is a 'person' in the international legal order. These essays document the emergence of an international legal order increasingly conceived in terms of patterns and probabilities, rather than as the stagecraft of a small company of permanent players.

Law's Meaning of Life

Author : Ngaire Naffine
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1847314821
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Law's Meaning of Life written by Ngaire Naffine and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perennial question posed by the philosophically-inclined lawyer is 'What is law?' or perhaps 'What is the nature of law?' This book poses an associated, but no less fundamental, question about law which has received much less attention in the legal literature. It is: 'Who is law for?' Whenever people go to law, they are judged for their suitability as legal persons. They are given or refused rights and duties on the basis of ideas about who matters. These ideas are basic to legal-decision making; they form the intellectual and moral underpinning of legal thought. They help to determine whether law is essentially for rational human beings or whether it also speaks to and for human infants, adults with impaired reasoning, the comotose, foetuses and even animals. Are these the right kind of beings to enter legal relationships and so become legal persons. Are they, for example, sufficiently rational, or sacred or simply human? Is law meant for them? This book reveals and evaluates the type of thinking that goes into these fundamental legal and metaphysical determinations about who should be capable of bearing legal rights and duties. It identifies and analyses four influential ways of thinking about law's person, each with its own metaphysical suppositions. One approach derives from rationalist philosophy, a second from religion, a third from evolutionary biology while the fourth is strictly legalistic and so endeavours to eschew metaphysics altogether. The book offers a clear, coherent and critical account of these complex moral and intellectual processes entailed in the making of legal persons.

Law and Revolution in South Africa

Author : Drucilla Cornell
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823257606
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Law and Revolution in South Africa written by Drucilla Cornell and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relation between law and revolution is one of the most pressing questions of our time. As one country after another has faced the challenge that comes with the revolutionary overthrow of past dictatorships, how one reconstructs a new government is a burning issue. South Africa, after a long and bloody armed struggle and a series of militant uprisings, negotiated a settlement for a new government and remains an important example of what a substantive revolution might look like. The essays collected in this book address both the broader question of law and revolution and some of the specific issues of transformation in South Africa.

The Journal of Speculative Philosophy

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Journal of Speculative Philosophy written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Paul Ricoeur and Contemporary Moral Thought

Author : William Schweiker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000101193
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Paul Ricoeur and Contemporary Moral Thought written by William Schweiker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores and proposes new avenues for contemporary moral thought. It defines and assesses the significance of the writings of French philosopher Paul Ricoeur for ethics. The book also explores what matters most to persons and how best to sustain just communities.

Romantic Epics and the Mission of Empire

Author : Matthew Leporati
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009285181
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Romantic Epics and the Mission of Empire written by Matthew Leporati and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively account of the Romantic-era revival of epic literature set against the background of British imperialism's evangelical turn.

Heidegger and the Quest for the Sacred

Author : F. Schalow
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401597731
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Heidegger and the Quest for the Sacred written by F. Schalow and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although there are various `religious' traces in Heidegger's philosophy, little effort has been made to show the systematic import which his thinking has for outlining a full range of religious and theological questions. Precisely because his thought is opposed to the construction of any `dogma', his vast writings provide clues to what meaning(s) the `Sacred' and the `Divine' may have in a postmodern age where the very possibility of `faith' hangs in the balance. By showing how Heidegger's own thinking can be interpreted as a struggle to come to terms with religious questions, this book undertakes a postmodern investigation of the Sacred which both draws upon and transcends various world-religions and denominations. A postmodern, non-sectarian vision of the Sacred thereby becomes possible which is open to the plurality of religious experiences on the one hand, and yet affirms on the other Heidegger's emphasis (in Beiträge zur Philosophie) on the `last god' as the displacing of all sectarian visions of god. This book will have special appeal to Heidegger scholars, as well as students interested in the overlap between phenomenology and philosophical theology.

Foundations of Indian Philosophy

Author : Balbir Singh
Publisher : [New Delhi] : Orient Longman
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Foundations of Indian Philosophy written by Balbir Singh and published by [New Delhi] : Orient Longman. This book was released on 1971 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Feminists Rethink The Self

Author : Diana T Meyers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429969015
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Feminists Rethink The Self written by Diana T Meyers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates the discussions of leading feminist thinkers on the concept of self and personal identity. It addresses issues in moral social psychology. The book is useful for students of feminist theory, ethics, and social and political philosophy.

Constructing Ethical Patterns in Times of Globalization

Author : Aleksi Kuokkanen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004205683
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Constructing Ethical Patterns in Times of Globalization written by Aleksi Kuokkanen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-01-20 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the Catholic theologian Hans Küng, this book searches for a model for global ethics by analysing the contemporary philosophical discussion. It demonstrates that the Western model is unable to reckon with exclusivism and difference and presents an alternative model.