Ethics, Emotion and the Unity of the Self (Routledge Revivals)
Ethics, Emotion and the Unity of the Self (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Oliver Letwin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-07-02

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13: 1136921494

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This Routledge Revival reissues Oliver Letwin’s philosophical treatise: Ethics, Emotion and the Unity of the Self, first published in 1987, which concerns the applicability of the artistic classifications of romanticism and classicism to philosophical doctrine. Dr Letwin examines three particular theses associated with philosophical romanticism: that there is within us a high self and a low self; that there is a moral self in inevitable conflict with an amoral self; and that there is a rational self disjoined from and in tension with a passionate self. He argues that these notions of philosophical romanticism are, in fact, radically false, and instead takes the view that man can be a unified being of the sort described by philosophical classicists. But man has to work to achieve this status. The intrinsic unity of the human personality is not a guarantee of a coherent life, but a challenge to be met.

Kant, Respect and Injustice (Routledge Revivals)
Kant, Respect and Injustice (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Victor Seidler

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-12-15

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 1135156085

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In this work, originally published in 1986, Victor Seidler explores the different notions of respect, equality and dependency in Kant’s moral writings. He illuminates central tensions and contradictions not only within Kant’s moral philosophy, but within the thinking and feeling about human dignity and social inequality which we take very much for granted within a liberal moral culture. In challenging our assumption of the autonomy of morality, Seidler also questions our understanding of what it means for someone to live as a person in his or her own right. The autonomy of individuals cannot be assumed but has to be reasserted against relationships of subordination. This involves a break with a rationalist morality, so that respect for others involves respect for emotions, feelings, desires and needs, and establishes a fuller autonomy as a basis for freedom and justice.

Kant, Respect and Injustice (Routledge Revivals)
Kant, Respect and Injustice (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Victor Seidler

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-12-15

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 1135156077

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In this work, originally published in 1986, Victor Seidler explores the different notions of respect, equality and dependency in Kant’s moral writings. He illuminates central tensions and contradictions not only within Kant’s moral philosophy, but within the thinking and feeling about human dignity and social inequality which we take very much for granted within a liberal moral culture. In challenging our assumption of the autonomy of morality, Seidler also questions our understanding of what it means for someone to live as a person in his or her own right. The autonomy of individuals cannot be assumed but has to be reasserted against relationships of subordination. This involves a break with a rationalist morality, so that respect for others involves respect for emotions, feelings, desires and needs, and establishes a fuller autonomy as a basis for freedom and justice.

Morality and Moral Reasoning (Routledge Revivals)
Morality and Moral Reasoning (Routledge Revivals)

Author: John Casey

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-09-13

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 1135021627

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First published in 1971, the five essays in this book were written by young philosophers at Cambridge at that time. They focus on two major questions of ethical theory: ‘What is it to judge morally?’ and ‘What makes a reason a moral reason?’. The book explores the relation of moral judgements to attitudes, emotions and beliefs as well as the notions of expression, agency, and moral responsibility.

The Fundamental Questions of Philosophy (Routledge Revivals)
The Fundamental Questions of Philosophy (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Alfred C Ewing

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-04-03

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 1136208739

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First Published in 1951, this outline work on the theory of knowledge and metaphysics is intended both for university students who have recently started on the subject and for any who, without having the advantage of studying it at university, wish by private reading to acquire a general idea of its nature. The book deals with all the main questions arising within the field in so far as they can be stated and discussed profitably and simply. The topics discussed include the place of reason in knowledge and life, the possibility of knowledge beyond sense-experience, the theory of perception, the relation of body and mind, alleged philosophical implications of recent scientific doctrines, the problem of evil and the existence of God.

A Dictionary of the Sacred Language of All Scriptures and Myths (Routledge Revivals)
A Dictionary of the Sacred Language of All Scriptures and Myths (Routledge Revivals)

Author: G Gaskell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-03-10

Total Pages: 849

ISBN-13: 1317589424

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G. A. Gaskell’s Dictionary of the Sacred Language of All Scriptures and Myths, first published in 1923, examines several different aspects of religion, including examples from Ancient Egyptian religion and mythology to modern-day Christianity, providing explanations of gods, events, and symbols in alphabetical order. This is a perfect reference book for students of theology or the history of religion.

Joseph Conrad and the Ethics of Darwinism (Routledge Revivals)
Joseph Conrad and the Ethics of Darwinism (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Allan Hunter

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-08-01

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 131763795X

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First published in 1983, this book explores a number of avenues of critical thinking about Joseph Conrad, showing him as an author deeply concerned with humankind’s ethical motivation and its relationship with the ideas of evolution current in his day. Allan Hunter establishes Conrad’s detailed knowledge of the leading evolutionary arguments of the period and the main questions posed: were ethics God-given or were morals merely an evolved attribute? His novels are shown as debates with, and extensions of, the theories of Huxley, Darwin, Carlyle, Spencer, Lombroso and others on the nature of humanity and altruism.

Cults, New Religions and Religious Creativity (Routledge Revivals)
Cults, New Religions and Religious Creativity (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Geoffrey Nelson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2011-03-31

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 113682622X

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The twentieth century has been marked by an unprecedented outburst of religious activity on a world-wide scale, and in particular by a mushrooming of numerous religious movements. This work, first published in 1987, takes a fresh approach to the understanding of this phenomenon, an approach which takes into account new concepts of human nature and of religion.

Love Or Greatness (Routledge Revivals)
Love Or Greatness (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Roslyn Wallach Bologh

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-12-15

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 1135156433

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This work, first published in 1990, reissues the first thorough examination of the essentially masculine nature of Max Weber's social and political thinking. Through a detailed examination of his central texts, the author demonstrates Weber's masculine reading of 'social life' and shows how his work advocates a masculine form of life that poses a challenge to contemporary women and to feminism. In particular, she addresses the patriarchal implications of Weber's belief in the need to relegate the ethic of brotherly love to a private sphere in order to make possible rational action and the achievement of greatness in the public sphere.