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Wishful thinking is a deeply ingrained human trait that has had a long-term distorting effect on ethical thinking. Many influential ethical views depend on the optimistic assumption that, despite appearances to the contrary, the human and natural world in which we live could, eventually, be made to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Geuss, Raymond
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Philosophie
Optimismus
Ethik
Philosophy, Modern.
Philosophy.
Optimism.
Ethics.
PHILOSOPHY > Essays.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Modern.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > General.
ethics (philosophy)
Morale.
Optimisme.
Philosophie > 21e siecle.
Philosophie > Histoire.
Ethics
Philosophy, Modern > 21st century.
Philosophy > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; PREFACE; 1. Goals, Origins, Disciplines; 2. Vix intellegitur; 3. Marxism and the Ethos of the Twentieth Century; 4. Must Criticism Be Constructive?; 5. The Loss of Meaning on the Left; 6. Authority: Some Fables; 7. A Note on Lying; 8. Politics and Architecture; 9. The Future of Theological Ethics; 10. Did Williams Do Ethics?; 11. The Wisdom of Oedipus and the Idea of a Moral Cosmos; 12. Who Was the First Philosopher?; 13. A World without Why; NOTES; INDEX.

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