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Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii About the Contents of This Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix Introduction, Francis Dunlop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 I. PAPERS BY KOLNAI What Is Politics About? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 A Note on the Meaning of Right and Wrong . . . . . . . . . 45 Erroneous Conscience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Are There Degrees of Ethical Universality? . . . . . . . . . . . 83 The Concept of Practical Error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Actions and Inactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Agency and Freedom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 The Indispensability of Philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 II. PAPERS ABOUT KOLNAI’S WORK 1. Introductory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 Kolnai’s Mature Political Philosophy, Lee Congdon . . . . . 159 The Ethical Theories of Aurel Kolnai, John D. Beach . . . 167 2. Politics and Utopia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 The Democratic Subversion of Political Liberty and Participation, John P . Hittinger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 Liberty, Equality, Nobility: Aurel Kolnai and the Moral Foundations of Democracy, Daniel J. Mahoney . . . . . 193 Aurel Kolnai: A Political Philosopher Confronts the Scourge of Our Epoch, Pierre Manent . . . . . . . . . 207 Aurel Kolnai and Utopia, David Wiggins . . . . . . . . . . . . 219 Contents 3. Ethics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231 Aims in Games and Moral Purposes, Loránd Ambrus-Lakatos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 Kolnai and Kant on (Human) Dignity, Zoltán Balázs . . . 251 Kolnai’s Dissertation Der ethische Wert und die Wirklichkeit: A “Completion” of Scheler’s Value-Ethics, Francis Dunlop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 The Nature and Scope of Ordinary Morality: Some Reflections in the Spirit of Aurel Kolnai, M. W . F . Stone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281 4. Feeling and Emotion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297 Is Love Intertwined with Hatred? Andreas Dorschel . . . . . 299 Kolnai’s Idea of Emotional Presentation, Thomas Norgaard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313 Aurel Kolnai’s “Disgust”: A Source in the Art and Writing of Salvador Dalí, Robert Radford . . . . . . . . . . 327 About the Contributors to This Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333 Indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335 ...

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