Hermeneutics and Human Finitude: Toward a Theory of Ethical UnderstandingFordham Univ Press, 1991 - 291 Seiten Having thought out the Enlightenment project of individualism, privacy, and autonomy to its end, Anglo-American ethical theory now finds itself unable to respond to the collapse of community in which the practices justified by this project have resulted. In the place of reasonable deliberation about the goals to be chosen and the means to them, we now, it seems, have only what MacIntyre has aptly called "interminable debate" among "rival" positions, debate in which each party merely contends with the others for its own advantage. And this circumstance MacIntyre himself seems unable to escape despite his best efforts. In further elaborating Hans-Georg Gadamer's hermeneutical reception of Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Kant, and Hegel, and in referring simultaneously to Edmund Burke's parallel political rhetoric, among other tradition-oriented arguments in the English language, this book seeks a recollection of shared ethical principles, a recollection which alone, it is argued, might prevent the devolution of discussion into war with words and make possible some measure of consensus, however provisional and shadowed by dissent it will be. |
Inhalt
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Hegel and Kantian Moral | 14 |
The Insufficiency of MacIntyres Alternative | 38 |
Gadamers Modified Hegelianism as a Way Beyond | 68 |
Language as the Medium of Understanding | 105 |
Gadamers Divergence from the Critical Intention | 117 |
The Ethical Implications of Gadamers Theory | 179 |
Interpretation and Application in Ethical | 188 |
Gadamerian Conservatism | 267 |
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Hermeneutics and Human Finitude: Toward a Theory of Ethical Understanding P. Christopher Smith Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1991 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
abstract aesthetic aischron analytical analytical philosophy apophantic aretē argues argument Aristotle Aristotle's artwork autonomous reason bouleuesthai Callicles calls Civil Society clear concern Condition of Right consciousness Consequently context critical custom deliberation dialectic dialogue dikaios discussion displays emotivism epistēmē ethical choices ethical principles ethical reasoning ethical tradition ethical understanding example external fact Gadamer points Gadamer's Gadamer's hermeneutics Gorgias Greek Hans-Georg Gadamer Hegel Heidegger Hence hermeneutical human IGPAP individual insight insofar justice kalos Kant Kantian logic logoi logos MacIntyre MacIntyre's mathematical means mind Nicomachean Ethics one's oneself ordinary language ordinary language philosophy particular Phaedo Philebus philia philosophy phronesis Plato Plato and Aristotle Polus practice precisely presupposes prohairesis question rational Rawls reality realm regard relationship remains Rorty sense sittliches Sittlichkeit Socrates someone sophism sophistic soul speaking subject matter synesis takes techně things thinking thought tion tōn tradition transcend universal virtue Wittgenstein WJWR words
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 6 - But we have — very largely, if not entirely — lost our comprehension, both theoretical and practical, of morality.
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