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- Exploring the World of Human Practice: Readings in and about the Philosophy of Aurel Kolnai
- Book
- 2004
- Published by: Central European University Press
summary
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 intrinsicalist, non-naturalist, non-reductionist", which took its original impetus from Scheler's value ethics, and was developed by using a natural phenomenologist method.
The unique combination of linguistic analysis and phenomenology yields highly original ideas on classical fields of moral theory, such as responsibility and free will, the meaning of right and wrong, the universalisability of ethical norms, the role of moral emotions, internalism vs externalism, to mention a few.
The volume presents a selection of essays by Kolnai, including his main political theoretical work, "What is Politics About", available in English here for the first time. The second half of the book Kolnai's work is analyzed in a series of essays by eminent scholars
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. 2-5
- Introduction
- pp. 1-14
- I. Papers By Kolnai
- What Is Politics About?
- pp. 17-44
- Erroneous Conscience
- pp. 59-82
- The Concept of Practical Error
- pp. 95-108
- Actions and Inactions
- pp. 109-122
- Agency and Freedom
- pp. 123-142
- The Indispensability of Philosophy
- pp. 143-154
- II. Papers About Kolnai's Work
- 1. Introductory
- pp. 157-158
- Kolnai’s Mature Political Philosophy
- pp. 159-166
- The Ethical Theories of Aurel Kolnai
- pp. 167-176
- 2. Politics and Utopia
- pp. 177-178
- Aurel Kolnai and Utopia
- pp. 219-230
- Aims in Games and Moral Purposes
- pp. 233-250
- Kolnai and Kanton (Human) Dignity
- pp. 251-266
- 4. Feeling and Emotion
- pp. 297-298
- Is Love Intertwined with Hatred?
- pp. 299-312
- Kolnai’s Idea of Emotional Presentation
- pp. 313-326
- About the Contributors to This Volume
- pp. 333-334
- Back Cover
- p. 355
Additional Information
ISBN
9786155211102
Related ISBN(s)
9789637326011, 9789639241978
MARC Record
OCLC
57566227
Pages
354
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No