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Against the background of the recent revival of ethics, this handbook aims to show the great fertility of the phenomenological tradition for the study of ethics and moral philosophy by collecting a set of papers on the contributions to ethical thought by major phenomenological thinkers. Twenty-one chapters in the book are articles by experts who explore the thought of the major ethical thinkers in the first two generations of the phenomenological tradition and direct the reader toward the most relevant primary and secondary materials. The final three chapters of the book sketch more recent developments in various parts of the world, and the first three chapters investigate the relations between phenomenology and the dominant normative approaches in contemporary moral philosophy.
List of contents
Introduction: The Phenomenological Tradition and Moral Philosophy.- 1. Aristotelianism and Phenomenology.- 2. Kantianism and Phenomenology.- 3. Utilitarianism and Phenomenology.- 4. Hannah Arendt: The Care of the World and of the Self.- 5. Simone de Beauvoir: An Existential-Phenomenological Ethics.- 6. Franz Brentano: The Foundation of Value Theory and Ethics.- 7. Dorion Cairns: The Last Lecture Course on Ethics.- 8. Hans-Georg Gadamer: Phronetic Understanding and Learned Ignorance.- 9. Nicolai Hartmann: Proper Ethics Is Atheistic.- 10. Martin Heidegger: The "End" of Ethics.- 11. Edmund Husserl: From Reason to Love.- 12. Emmanuel Levinas: The Phenomenology of Sociality and the Ethics of Alterity.- 13. Gabriel Marcel: Ethics within a Christian Existentialism.- 14. Maurice Merleau-Ponty: "Ethics" as an Ambiguous, Embodied Logos.- 15. Jan Pato?ka: Phenomenology of Practice.- 16. Adolf Reinach: Metaethics and the Philosophy of Law.- 17. Paul Ricoeur: The Just as Ingredient in the Good.- 18. Jean-Paul Sartre: From an Existentialist to a Realistic Ethics.- 19. Max Scheler: A Sketch of His Moral Philosophy.- 20. Alfred Schutz: Reciprocity, Alterity, and Participative Citizenry.- 21. Herbert Spiegelberg: Phenomenology in Ethics.- 22. Edith Stein: Woman as Ethical Type.- 23. Dietrich von Hildebrand: Master of Phenomenological Value-Ethics.- 24. WATSUJI Tetsuro: Beyond Individuality, This Side of Totality.- 25. The Return of Phenomenology in Recent French Moral Philosophy.- 26. Recent Phenomenological Ethics in Germany.- 27. Spain and Latin America.
Summary
Against the background of the recent revival of ethics, this handbook aims to show the great fertility of the phenomenological tradition for the study of ethics and moral philosophy by collecting a set of papers on the contributions to ethical thought by major phenomenological thinkers. Twenty-one chapters in the book are articles by experts who explore the thought of the major ethical thinkers in the first two generations of the phenomenological tradition and direct the reader toward the most relevant primary and secondary materials. The final three chapters of the book sketch more recent developments in various parts of the world, and the first three chapters investigate the relations between phenomenology and the dominant normative approaches in contemporary moral philosophy.
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From the reviews:
“Phenomenological Approaches to Moral Philosophy succeeds in its goals of providing a primer for newcomers to phenomenological ethics or those needing to teach the subject, given the understanding that it is as much a bridge to more detailed analysis as anything else. … the overall result is comprehensive in its scope and a useful gateway into the world of phenomenological ethics.” (James Smyth, Yearbook of the Irish Philosophical Society 2010, 2010)
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From the reviews:
"Phenomenological Approaches to Moral Philosophy succeeds in its goals of providing a primer for newcomers to phenomenological ethics or those needing to teach the subject, given the understanding that it is as much a bridge to more detailed analysis as anything else. ... the overall result is comprehensive in its scope and a useful gateway into the world of phenomenological ethics." (James Smyth, Yearbook of the Irish Philosophical Society 2010, 2010)
