Exploring the world of Human Practice: readings in and about the Philosophy of Aurel Kolnai

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 int...

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Weitere Verfasser: Ambrus-Lakatos, Loránd 1964- (HerausgeberIn), Balázs, Zoltán 1966- (HerausgeberIn, MitwirkendeR)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Budapest ; New York Central European University Press [2022]
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Zusammenfassung: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
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Contents; Preface; About the Contents of This Volume; Introduction ; What Is Politics About?; A Note on the Meaning of Right and Wrong; Erroneous Conscience; Are There Degrees of Ethical Universality?; The Concept of Practical Error; Actions and Inactions; Agency and Freedom; The Indispensability of Philosophy; Kolnai's Mature Political Philosophy; The Ethical Theories of Aurel Kolnai; The Democratic Subversion of Political Liberty and Participation; Liberty, Equality, Nobility: Aurel Kolnai and the Moral Foundations of Democracy Aurel Kolnai: A Political Philosopher Confronts the Scourge of Our EpochAurel Kolnai and Utopia; Aims in Games and Moral Purposes; Kolnai and Kant on (Human) Dignity; Kolnai's Dissertation Der ethische Wert und die Wirklichkeit: A "Completion" of Scheler's Value-Ethics; The Nature and Scope of Ordinary Morality: Some Reflections in the Spirit of Aurel Kolnai; Is Love Intertwined with Hatred?; Kolnai's Idea of Emotional Presentation; Aurel Kolnai's "Disgust": A Source in the Art and Writing of Salvador Dalé; About the Contributors to This Volume; INDEXE
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ISBN:9786155211102
DOI:10.1515/9786155211102