Morality, Self Knowledge and Human Suffering

An Essay on The Loss of Confidence in the World
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-138-92220-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 399 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

In this wholly original study, Josep Corbi asks how one should relate to a certain kind of human suffering, namely, the harm that people cause one another. Relying upon real life examples of human suffering--including torture, genocide, and warfare--as opposed to thought experiments, Corbi proposes a novel approach to self-knowledge that runs counter to standard Kantian approaches to morality.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Corbí, Josep

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. Thought Experiments, Justice, and Character 3. The Loss of Confidence in the World 4. The Real and the Imaginary in the Soldier's Experience 5. The Reality of Moral Features 6. Moral Principles and the Divided Conception of the Self 7 Self-Knowledge in the Light of a Dance 8. Conclusion: Toward Expressive Awareness

Über Autor(innen)

Josep E. Corbí is a full professor at the University of Valencia. He has published Minds, Causes, and Mechanisms. A Case Against Mechanisms (with Josep L. Prades; Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2000) and Un lugar para la moral (Madrid: Antonio Machado, 2003), as well as a number of papers in philosophy of mind, meta-ethics and epistemology.