Franzese The Ethics of Energy

William James's Moral Philosophy in Focus
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-11-032783-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 219 Seiten

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William James's moral philosophy is neither a remaking of utilitarianism nor it is a theory of values as it is assumed by the majority of his interpreters. Instead James offers an ethical view consistently arising out of valorization of energy of his days, and effecting a counter-tendency to the two great popular scientific currents of the 19th century: the universalizing of Darwinism and the pessimistic ideologies of social entropy. James's ethics moves away from the traditional idealistic or utilitarian grounds and takes place against the background of an up-and-coming philosophical anthropology hinged on the primacy of action. Human activity, however, needs to be understood in relation to Energy as the fabric of the universe pervading the whole spectrum of being in a continuum in which humanity and divinty are strictly intertwined.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Franzese, Sergio

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS;5
2;Summary;7
3;List of Abbreviations for the Works of William James;8
4;Introduction;9
5;William James’s Moral Philosophy in Focus;17
5.1;1. “The Moral Philosophy and the Moral life”: a Misunderstanding;17
5.2;2. Idealism and Utilitarianism: the Teleological Question;24
5.3;3. Moral Experience and Moral Philosophy;32
5.4;4. From Moral Philosophy to Ethics;48
6;The Anthropological Question;55
6.1;1. James and Philosophical Anthropology;57
6.2;2. James’s Overcoming of Darwinism. The Microcosmic View;77
6.3;3. Psychology as Anthropology. Mind, Consciousness and Instinct;87
6.4;4. The Primacy of Action;105
7;Habits and Ethics;111
7.1;1. Habits and Emotions. Bain’s Moralist’s Psychology;112
7.2;2. Individual and Society. James’s Philosophical Psychology;117
7.3;3. The Function of Habit;131
7.4;4. Habit and Ethics;135
7.5;5. Towards an Ethics of Energy;149
8;The Question of Energy;151
8.1;1. The Energetic Self;151
8.2;2. The Age of Energy;154
8.3;3. James and Energy;167
9;The Ethics of Energy;187
9.1;1. The Energies of Men;187
9.2;2. The Unseen Universe. A Religion of Energy;218
10;Bibliography;230
11;Index;240