Principles and Persons Principles and Persons

Principles and Persons

An Ethical Interpretation of Existentialism

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Publisher Description

Many critics have claimed that existentialism has not produced any ethics, as distinct from the moralistic assertions of its individual proponents. Challenging this view, Professor Olafson demonstrates that Sartre, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty indeed worked out a powerful ethical theory and that their positions must be understood as deriving from a voluntarist concept of moral autonomy that can be traced beyond Nietzsche and Kant to certain tendencies in late-medieval thought. He demonstrates that a broad parallelism exists between developments in ethical theory among Continental philosophers of the phenomenological persuasion and the more analytically inclined philosophers of the English-speaking world.

GENRE
Nonfiction
RELEASED
2019
December 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
278
Pages
PUBLISHER
Johns Hopkins University Press
SELLER
Johns Hopkins University
SIZE
2.3
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