TY  - GEN
T1  - A world without why
A1  - Geuss, Raymond
LA  - English
PP  - Princeton, NJ
PB  - Princeton University Press
YR  - 2014
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn869735820
AB  - Wishful thinking is a deeply ingrained human trait that has had a long-term distorting effect on ethical thinking. Many influential ethical views depend on the optimistic assumption that, despite appearances to the contrary, the human and natural world in which we live could, eventually, be made to make sense to us. In A World without Why, Raymond Geuss challenges this assumption. The essays in this collection--several of which are published here for the first time--explore the genesis and historical development of this optimistic configuration in ethical thought and the ways in which it ha.
CN  - B1626 .G481 2014eb
SN  - 9781400848485
SN  - 1400848482
SN  - 1306406765
SN  - 9781306406765
SN  - 9780691155883
SN  - 0691155887
SN  - 9780691169200
KW  - Philosophy : History.
KW  - Philosophy, Modern : 21st century.
KW  - Optimism.
KW  - Ethics.
KW  - Ethics
KW  - Philosophie : Histoire.
KW  - Philosophie : 21e siècle.
KW  - Optimisme.
KW  - Morale.
KW  - ethics (philosophy)
KW  - PHILOSOPHY : History & Surveys : General.
KW  - PHILOSOPHY : History & Surveys : Modern.
KW  - PHILOSOPHY : Essays.
KW  - Optimism
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Philosophy, Modern
KW  - Ethik
KW  - Optimismus
KW  - Philosophie
KW  - 2000-2099
KW  - History
ER  -