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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Geuss, Raymond
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 make sense to us. In A World without Why, Raymond Geuss challenges this assumption. The essays in this collection--several of which are published here for the first time--explore the genesis and historical development of this optimistic configuration in ethical thought and the ways in which it ha.
Physical Description:1 online resource (288 pages).
ISBN:9781400848485

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