Existentialist Thinkers and Ethics

✍ Scribed by Christine Daigle

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 198
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Twentieth-century existential thinkers, critical of traditional, overly rationalistic approaches to ethics, sought to provide a better account of what it means to be human in the world. They articulated ethical views that respected the individual yet were fundamentally concerned with the Other and the ethical value of an authentic life. Their philosophy has often been dismissed as unsuccessful.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Introduction: The Problem of Ethics for Existentialism
1 The Exception as Reinforcement of the Ethical Norm: The Figures of Abraham and Job in Kierkegaard’s Ethical Thought
2 A Nietzschean Solution to Ethical Relativism
3 The Politics of Authentic Existence
4 Yes, She Is an Ethicist: Arendt, Responsibility, and Existentialism
5 Sartre on Atheism, Freedom, and Morality in The Humanism of Existentialism
6 An Ethics of Measure: Camus and Rousseau
7 The Ambiguous Ethics of Beauvoir
8 Merleau-Ponty’s Embodied Ethics: Rethinking Traditional Ethics
Conclusion: From the Ethical to the Political
Bibliography
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