A world without why /
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...
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| Định dạng: | Licensed eBooks |
| Ngôn ngữ: | Tiếng Anh |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press
2014.
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| Truy cập trực tuyến: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5hhns5 |
Mục lục:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; PREFACE; 1. Goals, Origins, Disciplines; 2. Vix intellegitur; 3. Marxism and the Ethos of the Twentieth Century; 4. Must Criticism Be Constructive?; 5. The Loss of Meaning on the Left; 6. Authority: Some Fables; 7. A Note on Lying; 8. Politics and Architecture; 9. The Future of Theological Ethics; 10. Did Williams Do Ethics?; 11. The Wisdom of Oedipus and the Idea of a Moral Cosmos; 12. Who Was the First Philosopher?; 13. A World without Why; NOTES; INDEX.