Reason''s Grief - An Essay on Tragedy and Value

Informationen zum Autor George Harris is Chancellor Professor of Philosophy at the College of William and Mary. He is the author of Dignity and Vulnerability and Agent-Centered Morality! and has contributed to The Journal of Philosophy! Nous! The Monst! American Philosophy Quarterly! Public Affairs Quarterly and other journals. He is a Distinguished Member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars! a member of Who's Who in Humanities in Higher Education! and a recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment of the Humanities. Zusammenfassung This book takes W. B. Yeats's comment that we begin to live only when we have conceived life as tragedy as a call for a tragic ethics. We must accept an ethical perspective that avoids fantasies about redemption yet finds a way to think and act with both passion and hope. Inhaltsverzeichnis An aesthetic prelude; 1. The problem of tragedy; 2. The dubious ubiquity of reason; 3. Nihilism; 4. Pessimism; 5. Monism: an epitaph; 6. Moralism and the inconstancy of value; 7. Moralism and the impurity of value; 8. Best life pluralism and reason's regret; 9. Tragic pluralism and reason's grief; 10. Postscript on the future: the idea of progress and the avoidance of despair.

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• Authors: George Harris, George W. Harris, George W. (College of William and Mary Harris
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2006
• EAN: 9780521863285
• ISBN: 978-0-521-86328-5
• No. of pages: 314
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works