Dennis / Werkhoven Ethics and Self-Cultivation

Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-351-59153-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 246 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory

The aim of Ethics and Self-Cultivation is to establish a new "cultivation of the self" strand within contemporary moral philosophy. Although the revival of virtue ethics has helped reintroduce the eudaimonic tradition into mainstream philosophical debates, it has by and large been a revival of Aristotelian ethics combined with a modern preoccupation with standards for the moral rightness of actions. The essays comprising this volume offer a fresh approach to the eudaimonic tradition: instead of conditions for rightness of actions, it focuses on conceptions of human life that are best for the one living it. The first section of essays looks at the Hellenistic schools and the way they influenced modern thinkers like Spinoza, Kant, Nietzsche, Hadot, and Foucault in their thinking about self-cultivation. The second section of essays offers contemporary perspectives on ethical self-cultivation by drawing on work in moral psychology, epistemology of self-knowledge, philosophy of mind, and meta-ethics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dennis, Matthew

Werkhoven, Sander

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Sander Werkhoven and Matthew Dennis Part I: Historical Perspectives on Self-Cultivation 1. Stoic Mindfulness in Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius John Sellars 2. Ilsetraut Hadot’s Seneca: Ancient Philosophy and Spiritual Direction Matthew Sharpe 3. From Passionate Perception to the Intellectual Love of God Aurelia Armstrong 4. Nietzsche’s and Kant’s Reflections on Epicurus and Self-Cultivation Keith Ansell Pearson 5. Nietzsche as a Modern Philosophical Physician Michael Ure 6. Cultivation of the Self in Kant’s Moral Philosophy Irina Schumski 7. Foucault, Stoicism and Self-Mastery Katrina Mitcheson Part II: Contemporary Perspectives on Self-Cultivation 8. Cultivating an Integrated Self Luke Brunning 9. Familiar and Unfamiliar Excellences Edward Harcourt 10. Evaluative Delusion, Agential Awareness and Narrative Self-Cultivation Anna Bergqvist 11. Moral Self-Cultivation East and West: A Critique Michael Slote 12. The Value of Self-Knowledge Quassim Cassam

Über Autor(innen)

Matthew Dennis writes on ethics in the Hellenistic and modern European tradition and contemporary virtue theory. He is currently completing a joint Ph.D. with the University of Warwick, UK and Monash University Australia on philosophical self-cultivation.

Sander Werkhoven is Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.