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Moral Tradition and Individuality
Engelsk
Bogcover for Moral Tradition and Individuality af John Kekes, 9780691023489
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
264
ISBN-13:
9780691023489
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0691023484
Udg. Dato:
12 nov 1991
Størrelse i cm:
22,9 x 15,2
Oplagsdato:
12 nov 1991
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Moral Tradition and Individuality

Engelsk
Paperback 1991
Format:

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In this study, John Kekes develops the view that good lives depend on maintaining a balance between one''s moral tradition and individuality. Our moral tradition provides the forms of good lives and the permissible ways of trying to achieve them. But to do so, the author argues, we must grow in self-knowledge and self-control to make our characters suitable for realizing our aspirations. In addressing general readers as well as scholars, Kekes makes these philosophical views concrete by drawing on a rich variety of literary sources, including, among others, the works of Sophocles, Henry James, Tolstoy, and Edith Wharton.


The first half of the work concentrates on social morality, establishing the conditions all good lives must meet. The second discusses personal morality, the sphere of individuality. Its development enables us to discover what is important to us and how we can fit our personal aspirations into the forms of life our moral tradition provides. Kekes''s argument derives its inspiration from Aristotle''s objectivism, Hume''s emphasis on custom and feeling, and Mill''s concentration on individuals and their experiments in living. This book is a nontechnical yet closely reasoned attempt to provide a contemporary answer to the age-old question of how to live well.

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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
264
ISBN-13:
9780691023489
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0691023484
Udg. Dato:
12 nov 1991
Størrelse i cm:
22,9 x 15,2
Oplagsdato:
12 nov 1991
Forfatter(e):
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