Attending : an ethical art / Warren Heiti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heiti, Warren, 1979- author.

Series:

McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 82.

McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 82

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Attention--Philosophy.

Attention.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

346 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2021]

Summary:

"Attending--patient contemplation focused on a particular being--is a central ethical activity that has not been recognized by any of the main moral systems in the European philosophical tradition. That tradition has imagined that the moral agent is primarily a problem solver and world changer when what might be needed most is a witness. Moral theory has been agonized by dualism--motivation is analyzed into beliefs and desires, descriptions of facts and dissatisfactions with them, while action is represented as an effort to lessen dissatisfaction by altering the empirical world. In Attending Warren Heiti traces an alternative genealogy of ethics, drawing from the Platonism recovered by Simone Weil and developed in the work of Iris Murdoch, John McDowell, and Jan Zwicky. According to Weil, virtue is knowledge, knowledge is embodied, and the knower is nested in an ecosystem of relationships. Instead of analyzing and solving theoretical problems, Heiti aims to clarify the terrain by setting up objects of attention from more than one discipline, including not only philosophy but also literature, psychology, film, and visual art. The traditional picture captures one important type of ethical activity: faced with a moral problem, one looks to a general rule to furnish the solution. But not all problems conform to this model. Heiti offers an alternative: to see what is needed, one attends to the particular being."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction

2. Reflections On An Ethics Of Attending

3. Further Reflections On An Ethics Of Attending

4. Attending

5. Reading And Character

6. Prudence Or Phronesis

7. Virtue Is Knowledge, Character Is Fate

8. The Dance Of Perception

9. Integrative And Disintegrative Perspectives

10. Lyric Details And Ecological Integrity

11. Exodos.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-338) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Heiti, Warren, 1979- Attending.

ISBN:

0228006139

9780228006138

0228006120

9780228006121

OCLC:

1202055102