Reason's Grief Hardback: An Essay on Tragedy and Value - Hardcover

Harris

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521863287 ISBN 13: 9780521863285

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

This book takes W. B. Yeats's comment that we begin to live only when we have conceived life as tragedy as a call for a tragic ethics. We must accept an ethical perspective that avoids fantasies about redemption yet finds a way to think and act with both passion and hope.

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Críticas

"Harris is not nihilistic. He vociferously argues that tragic pluralism leads away from nihilism, which he describes as 'pseudo-intellectual, a theory of value for the emotionally vacuous' (p. 85). It is statements like these that make Harris difficult to ignore. He scrupulously avoids philosophical extremes and often seems at odds with any type of intellectual, religious, or cultural certitude. The boldness of his critique is shot through with an earnest conviction that increasing out tragic sense will amplify our passion for life." - Earl D. Bland, PsycCritiques

Biografía del autor

George Harris is Chancellor Professor of Philosophy at the College of William and Mary. He is the author of Dignity and Vulnerability and Agent-Centered Morality, and has contributed to The Journal of Philosophy, Nous, The Monst, American Philosophy Quarterly, Public Affairs Quarterly and other journals. He is a Distinguished Member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars, a member of Who's Who in Humanities in Higher Education, and a recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment of the Humanities.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0521863287
• ISBN 13: 9780521863285
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 310