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Wisdom : a humanistic conception / John Kekes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kekes, John, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Conduct of life.
- Wisdom.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 276 pages).
- Other Title:
- Humanistic conception
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- This text develops and defends a humanistic conception of wisdom as a personal attitude that guides how we evaluate the possibilities and limits of life in the context in which we live.
- Contents:
- 1. Human Wisdom: Initial Conception
- First Approximation
- A Comparison
- Two Personal Attitudes
- Our Personal Attitude and Its Inscape
- The Evaluative Framework
- The Dispute
- 2. Approaches to Wisdom
- Classical Approaches
- Epistemological Approaches
- Psychological Approaches
- Moral Approaches
- Conclusion
- 3. Two Assumptions
- The Good?
- The Plurality of Goods
- Uncertainties
- A Step Toward an Answer
- Basic Motivation
- Ambivalence
- Interim Conclusion
- 4. Perennial Problems
- Three Perennial Problems
- Imagined Worlds
- The Problem of External Goods
- The Problem of Internal Conflicts
- The Problem of Evaluative Contingencies
- Can Human Wisdom Help?
- 5. Wisdom: The Emerging Conception
- The Problem and the Approach
- Toward Considered Judgments
- The Instability of Considered Judgments
- Our Evaluative Framework and Wisdom
- The Test of Time
- Primary and Conventional Evaluations
- The Need for Wisdom
- 6. Basic Assumptions
- Preliminaries
- What Are the Basic Assumptions?
- Changes
- Wisdom, Continuity, and Change
- Two Points of View
- The Task of Wisdom
- Taking Stock
- 7. Reflective Understanding
- A Misunderstanding
- Three Modes of Understanding
- The Object of Reflective Understanding
- Non-Cognitive Elements
- The Ubiquity of Conflicts
- External Reasons
- Reflective Understanding and Wisdom
- 8. Depth
- The Need for Depth
- Commitments
- Commitments and Depth
- Responsibility
- Shame
- Depth and Wisdom
- 9. Wisdom: The Concluding Conception
- Overview
- Basic Assumptions
- Reflective Understanding
- Depth
- A Modest Conception of Wisdom
- Last Words
- Living with Perennial Problems
- The Makropulos Case
- Perennial Problems as Cathartic
- Nietzsche's Test
- The Examined Life
- Transfiguration of the Commonplace
- Envoi.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-751406-5
- 0-19-751407-3
- 0-19-751405-7
- OCLC:
- 1139013672
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