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About the Contents of This Volume PAPERS BY KOLNAI (IN ORDER OF COMPOSITION) What Is Politics About? (1933)––translated for this volume by Francis Dunlop. Originally published as “Der Inhalt der Politik” , Zeitschrift für die Gesamte Staatswissenschaft, Tübingen, XCIV, 1, 1933, pp. 1–38. The Indispensability of Philosophy (1947)––translated for this volume by Francis Dunlop. Originally written in English or French at the suggestion of Manuel Mendoza, who was studying at Laval University, Quebec, and attending Kolnai’s lectures. It was published in Mexico in Mendoza’s translation as “Necesidad de la Filosofía” , Estilo (San Luis Potosí), VII, 3, 1947, pp. 151–64. The original does not survive. A Note on the Meaning of Right and Wrong (1955)––in Scientiis Artibusque, an anthology of essays published by Herder & Co., Rome, July 1958, for the Hungarian Catholic Academy of Science and Art in exile. Erroneous Conscience (1957)––first published in the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 1957–58, pp. 171–98, and republished in Ethics, Value, and Reality, edited by Francis Dunlop and Brian Klug (London : Athlone, 1977), pp. 1–22. The Concept of Practical Error (1959)––published here for the first time. Written as a paper to be read to a philosophy group at King’s College, University of London, on 19 February 1960. Agency and Freedom (1966)––commissioned by the Royal Institute of Philosophy, London, to be delivered as a lecture during the winter of 1966/67, and then published in The Human Agent (London: Macmillan ; NewYork: St Martin’s Press, 1968), pp. 20–46. Are There Degrees of Ethical Universality? (1968)––published here for the first time. Written for delivery as a “special lecture” to the Philosophy Faculty at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where Kolnai was Visiting Professor in 1968. Actions and Inactions (1970–71)––published here for the first time. Written for a Staff Seminar in the Philosophy Department of Bedford College, University of London. EXPLORING THE WORLD OF HUMAN PRACTICE PAPERS ABOUT KOLNAI (“AKMC” indicates papers invited as contributions to the Aurel Kolnai Memorial Conference held in Budapest at the Central European University , in December 2000.) AMBRUS-LAKATOS, LÓRÁND, “Aims in Games and Moral Purposes” , AKMC, first publication. BALÁZS, ZOLTÁN, “Kolnai and Kant on (Human) Dignity” , AKMC, first publication. BEACH, JOHN D., “The Ethical Theories of Aurel Kolnai” , first published in The Thomist, 45, 1, 1981, pp. 132–43. CONGDON, LEE, “Kolnai’s Mature Political Philosophy” , AKMC, first publication. DORSCHEL, ANDREAS, “Is Love Intertwined with Hatred?” , AKMC, first published in the Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, XXXIII, 2002, pp. 273–85. DUNLOP, FRANCIS, “Kolnai’s Dissertation Der ethische Wert und die Wirklichkeit: A ‘Completion’ of Scheler’s Value-Ethics” , AKMC, first publication. HITTINGER, JOHN P., “The Democratic Subversion of Political Liberty and Participation” . An earlier version was published in Appraisal, 2, 1, 1997, pp. 26–36, but the paper has been extensively rewritten and abbreviated for this volume. MAHONEY, DANIEL J., “Liberty, Equality, Nobility: Aurel Kolnai and the Moral Foundations of Democracy” , AKMC, first published in Perspectives on Political Science, vol. 30, no 4, 2001, pp. 206–12. MANENT, PIERRE, “Aurel Kolnai: A Political Philosopher Confronts the Scourge of Our Epoch” , first published as the introduction to The Utopian Mind and Other Papers, ed. Francis Dunlop, London: Athlone, 1995, pp. xiii–xxvi. NORGAARD, THOMAS, “Kolnai’s Idea of Emotional Presentation” , AKMC, first publication. RADFORD, ROBERT, “Aurel Kolnai’s ‘Disgust’: A Source in the Art and Writing of Salvador Dalí” , first published in the Burlington Magazine, January 1999, pp. 32–33. STONE, M. W. F., “The Nature and Scope of Ordinary Morality: Some Reflections in the Spirit of Aurel Kolnai” , AKMC, first publication. WIGGINS, DAVID, “Aurel Kolnai and Utopia” , AKMC, first publication. x ...

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