Principles and Persons: An Ethical Interpretation of Existentialism - Couverture souple

Olafson, Frederick

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0801812135 ISBN 13 : 9780801812132

Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1970

Synopsis

Originally published in 1967. Many critics have claimed that existentialism has not produced any ethics, as distinct from the moralistic assertions of its individual proponents. Challenging this view, Professor Olafson demonstrates that Sartre, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty indeed worked out a powerful ethical theory and that their positions must be understood as deriving from a voluntarist concept of moral autonomy that can be traced beyond Nietzsche and Kant to certain tendencies in late-medieval thought. He demonstrates that a broad parallelism exists between developments in ethical theory among Continental philosophers of the phenomenological persuasion and the more analytically inclined philosophers of the English-speaking world.

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À propos de l?auteur

Frederick A. Olafson was a professor of education and philosophy in the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Date d'édition: 1970
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0801812135
• ISBN 13: 9780801812132
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 278
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