Kierkegaard and Issues in Contemporary Ethics / / ed. by Mélissa Fox-Muraton.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Bachmetjevas, Viktoras,; Black, Christopher,; Blattberg, Charles,; Fox-Muraton, Mélissa,; Frogel, Shai,; Glass, Michael,; Hughes, Liam,; Marek, Jakub,; Norman, Oliver,; Raudanski, Tomer,; Rosfort, René,; Stokes, Patrick,; Słowikowski, Andrzej,
• HerausgeberIn: Fox-Muraton, Mélissa,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Kierkegaard Studies. Monograph Series , 41
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VI, 280 p.)

While Kierkegaard’s philosophy focuses on concrete human existence, his thought has rarely been challenged regarding concrete and contemporary moral issues. This volume offers an overview of contemporary ethical issues from a Kierkegaardian perspective, deliberately taking him out of the sphere of T...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• Introduction: Kierkegaard’s Existential Ethics for the 21st Century
• Part I: Ethics And Religion
• 1. Either Religion or Ethics
• 2. Reflections on Kierkegaard’s Internalist Perspective and Its Relation to Social Change
• 3. Kierkegaard’s Deep Diversity
• 4. Kierkegaard and Interreligious Understanding
• 5. Clemency over Forgiveness
• Part II: Media And Community
• 6 Choosing for Yourself in the Age of the Social Media Echo-Chamber
• 7. Kierkegaard’s Critique of the Internet
• 8. Can a Refugee be One’s Neighbor in an Ethical Sense?
• 9. Equality, Mortality and Community in “At a Graveside”
• Part III: Challenges To Identity
• 10. The Strength of a Fragile Mind
• 11. Existential Ethics and Liberal Eugenics
• 12. Creatures of Habit
• 13. Despair and Gender Identity
• Abbreviations
• Index