Reason's grief : an essay on tragedy and value /

In Reason's Grief, George Harris 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, something the modern West has yet to produce. He argues that we must turn away from religious understandings of tragedy and the human...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Harris, George W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Temas:
Tragic, The.
Values.
Ethics.
Ethics
Tragique.
Morale.
ethics (philosophy)
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Humanism.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • An aesthetic prelude
  • The problem of tragedy
  • The dubious ubiquity of reason
  • Nihilism
  • Pessimism
  • Monism : an epitaph
  • Moralism and the inconstancy of value
  • Moralism and the impurity of value
  • Best life pluralism and reason's regret
  • Tragic pluralism and reason's grief
  • Postscript on the future : the idea of progress and the avoidance of despair.

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