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William James and the Moral Life - Todd Lekan

William James and the Moral Life

Responsible Self-Fashioning

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Buch | Hardcover
146 Seiten
2022
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-22164-9 (ISBN)
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This book offers a compelling new interpretation of James’ moral philosophy: an "ethics of responsible self-fashioning." James’ performative writing style articulates this conception by showing how moral inquiry serves both social and personal transformation.

James the social moral philosopher seeks to create an inclusive moral order through expansion of sympathetic concern among those committed to different ideals. James the existential moral philosopher defends the right to adopt hope-grounding metaphysical beliefs which encourage strenuous moral action in the face of evil and suffering. The power of James’ ethics is demonstrated by its application to current discussions about the status of marginalized nonhuman animals and that of the cognitively disabled.

William James and the Moral Life is of interest to a wide variety of ethicists and has special appeal to scholars and advanced students in moral philosophy, social philosophy, pragmatism, and American philosophy.

Todd Lekan is Associate Dean and Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina Lancaster, USA.

Introduction: Why William James and Ethics?

Chapter One: Pragmatist Moral Philosophy and Moral Life: Embracing the Tensions

Chapter Two: Ideals and Significant Lives

Chapter Three: The Sources of Moral Agency

Chapter Four: Existential Deliberation

Chapter Five: Moving Marginal Subjects Into Focus

Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Routledge Studies in American Philosophy
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 453 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie
ISBN-10 1-032-22164-X / 103222164X
ISBN-13 978-1-032-22164-9 / 9781032221649
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