Exploring the World of Human Practice : : Readings in and about the Philosophy of Aurel Kolnai /

Exploring the World of Human Practice : : Readings in and about the Philosophy of Aurel Kolnai / / ed. by Francis Dunlop, Zoltán Balázs.

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Aurel Kolnai was born in Budapest, in 1900 and died in London, in 1973. He was, according to Karl Popper and the late Bernard Williams, one of the most original, provocative, and sensitive philosophers of the twentieth century. Kolnai's moral philosophy is best described in his own words as int...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2013-1998
MitwirkendeR:
Ambrus-Lakatos, Loránd,
Balázs, Zoltán,
Beach, John D.,
Congdon, Lee,
Dorschel, Andreas,
Dunlop, Francis,
Hittinger, John P.,
Mahoney, Daniel J.,
Manent, Pierre,
Norgaard, Thomas,
Radford, Robert,
Stone, M. W. F.,
Wiggins, David,
HerausgeberIn:
Balázs, Zoltán,
Dunlop, Francis,
Place / Publishing House:Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2022]
©2004
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (354 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • About the Contents of This Volume
  • Introduction
  • I. PAPERS BY KOLNAI
  • What Is Politics About?
  • A Note on the Meaning of Right and Wrong
  • Erroneous Conscience
  • Are There Degrees of Ethical Universality?
  • The Concept of Practical Error
  • Actions and Inactions
  • Agency and Freedom
  • The Indispensability of Philosophy
  • II. PAPERS ABOUT KOLNAI’S WORK
  • 1. Introductory
  • Kolnai’s Mature Political Philosophy
  • The Ethical Theories of Aurel Kolnai
  • 2. Politics and Utopia
  • The Democratic Subversion of Political Liberty and Participation
  • Liberty, Equality, Nobility: Aurel Kolnai and the Moral Foundations of Democracy
  • Aurel Kolnai: A Political Philosopher Confronts the Scourge of Our Epoch
  • Aurel Kolnai and Utopia
  • 3. Ethics
  • Aims in Games and Moral Purposes
  • Kolnai and Kant on (Human) Dignity
  • Kolnai’s Dissertation Der ethische Wert und die Wirklichkeit: A “Completion” of Scheler’s Value-Ethics
  • The Nature and Scope of Ordinary Morality: Some Reflections in the Spirit of Aurel Kolnai
  • 4. Feeling and Emotion
  • Is Love Intertwined with Hatred?
  • Kolnai’s Idea of Emotional Presentation
  • Aurel Kolnai’s “Disgust”: A Source in the Art and Writing of Salvador Dalí
  • About the Contributors to This Volume
  • Indexes

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