Pluralism in Philosophy: Changing the Subject

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Cornell University Press, 2000 - 225 страници

This original and ambitious book aims to change how we think about good lives. The perennial debates about good lives--the disagreements caused by conflicts between scientific, religious, moral, historical, aesthetic, and subjective modes of reflection--typically end in an impasse. This leaves the underlying problems of the meaning of life, the possibility of free action, the place of morality in good lives, the art of life, and human self-understanding as intractable as they have ever been.The way out of this impasse, argues Kekes, is to abandon the assumption shared by the contending parties that the solutions of these problems can be rational only if they apply universally to all lives in all contexts. He believes that solutions may vary with lives and contexts and still be rational. Kekes defends a pluralistic alternative to absolutism and relativism that will, he holds, take philosophy in a new and more productive direction.

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Modes of Reflection
25
Philosophical Problems
47
The Pluralistic Approach
66
Preamble
81
The Possibility of Free Action
103
The Place of Morality in Good Lives
124
The Art of Life
143
The Nature of Human SelfUnderstanding
171
The Human World
199
Works Cited
217
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John Kekes is the author of many books, including The Roots of Evil, The Illusions of Egalitarianism, and The Art of Life, all from Cornell.

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