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Author:   Gary Steiner (Bucknell University)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.480kg
ISBN:  

9781032545844

ISBN 10:   1032545844
Pages:   270
Publication Date:   27 September 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Introduction Chapter One: Background Ideals of Living 1. A Counterintuitive Idea 2. Background Ideals of Living in the Philosophical Tradition 3. Anthropocentric Implications of Some Contemporary Approaches 4. Anthropocentric and Non-Anthropocentric Background Ideals of Living Chapter Two: The Essential Role and Pitfalls of Reason in Moral Judgment 1. Background Ideals of Living and Our Basic Understanding of Reason 2. Two Early Exponents of Anthropocentric Rationality: Aristotle and Seneca 3. The Enlightenment's Chief Exponent of Anthropocentric Rationality: Kant 4. Questioning the Traditional Commitment to the Primacy of Reason Chapter Three: Historical Idealism and the Process of Critical Reflection 1. Rationality: Rethink or Reject? 2. Rorty's Challenge to Reason and Criteria 3. The Ideal of Critical Detachment Revisited 4. Ortega's Turn to Historical Reason 5. Miller's Actualism and the Problem of Universals 6. A Concluding Thought Chapter Four: The Affective Dimension of Moral Commitment 1. Background Ideals of Living and the Putative Autonomy of Reason 2. A Positive Path Beyond the Limits of Reason? 3. Reclaiming a Guiding Place for the Emotions 4. Pre-Predicative Meaning and Affective Engagement 5. The Moral Community is Neither Exclusively Nor Primarily Human Chapter Five: Felt Kinship: The Essential Tension Between Local and Global Commitments 1. The Power and Essential Limits of Reason 2. The Power and Essential Limits of Feeling or Emotion 3. Toward a Dialectical Conception of the Reason-Emotion Dichotomy 4. Toward a Well-Tempered Humanism Bibliography

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Gary Steiner is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Bucknell University.

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