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Moral disquiet and human life / Monique Canto-Sperber ; translated by Silvia Pavel.
Van Pelt Library BJ1063 .C3613 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Canto-Sperber, Monique.
- Series:
- New French thought
- Standardized Title:
- Inquiétude morale et la vie humaine. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Ethics.
- Humanism.
- Philosophy--France--History.
- Philosophy.
- History.
- France.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 222 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- Part 1 Moral Disquiet
- Chapter 1 Ethics and the Challenge to Moral Philosophy 3
- Critique of "Ethical Ideology": Truth and Falsehoods 10
- Moral Philosophy and Ethics 17
- Myths of Our Time: Moral Grandstanding and Ethical Self-Indulgence 20
- Morals and Religion: The Misconception That Atheism Is a Prerequisite for Moral Deliberation 24
- Ethics, Meaning, and the Sacred: Unlikely Consolations 32
- The Myth of Modernity 38
- Mauled Individualism 44
- "All Books Are Open in Front of Me" 47
- Chapter 2 Goals of Ethical Reflection 53
- Moral Disquiet 55
- A New Morality? Reflections on Responsibility 57
- Law versus Morality: The Issue of Abortion 63
- Description and Dissociation in Ethical Reflection: The Concept of Person 66
- Practical Rationality and Moral Decisions 70
- The Normative Character of Human Acts and Practices 72
- Pluralism and Objectivity: The Debate on Human Cloning 74
- Justification and Moral Theories 77
- Ethical Reflection and Freethinking 79
- Confusing Ethics and Democracy 81
- Ethics without Solace 83
- Chapter 3 French Moral Philosophy and Its Past Misfortunes 86
- A Philosophical Revival: French Moral Philosophy in the Early 1900s 86
- The International Congress in Philosophy, August 1900 89
- French Moral Philosophy in the First Half of the Twentieth-Century: A Dwindling Discipline 91
- The 1960s: Moral Philosophy's Rebirth in Great Britain, Germany, and the United States 97
- The 1960s: French Moral Philosophy, Stranded between Suspicion and Neglect 101
- What Caused These Developments? 104
- The First Signs of Moral Philosophy's Revival in the 1980s 111
- Part 2 Human Life
- Chapter 4 The Absurd and the Meaning of Life 121
- The Meaning of Life: A Meaningless Question? 121
- Philosophers' Answer to the Existential Question 123
- The Impossibility of a Final Justification 125
- Immortality and the Vanity of Human Life 127
- The Meaning of Life in a Naturalistic World 130
- The Existential Question and the Feeling of Absurdity 131
- Reflecting on Human Life and Confronting the Absurd 134
- Chapter 5 The Invariants of Human Life 139
- "Most Living" through Reflection 139
- Existential Justifications and Self-Reflection 143
- The Personal Perspective 146
- Events in Human Life 153
- The Boredom of Living Forever 157
- Living Life Forward and Understanding It Backward 160
- Chapter 6 The Good in Human Life 167
- Morals and Existential Justifications 167
- Happiness and the Subjectivity of Human Good 170
- Objective Human Goods 172
- Human Goods 173
- Good Life and "Human Flourishing" 174
- The Good in Human Life: Formal Good and Philosophy 176.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [181]-212) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780691127361
- 0691127360
- OCLC:
- 173502683
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