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Antiquity and Modernity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 200

Antiquity and Modernity

The nature, faults and future of modern civilization and how theseconnect to the past are tackled in this broad-reaching volume. Presents a study of modernity that examines classicalinfluences Incorporates political, economic, social, and psychologicaltheories Highlights writings from a wide range of thinkers, includingAdam Smith, Marx, Mill, Nietzsche, Weber, and Freud

Sovereign Justice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 265

Sovereign Justice

Sovereign Justice collects valuable contributions from scholars of both continental and analytic tradition, and aims to investigate into the relationship between global justice and the nation state. It deals therefore especially with the moral relevance of national boundaries and cosmopolitanism. It is organised in four sections. The first section deals with cosmopolitan approaches to global justice, with regard to which Kok-Choir Tan's article presents an overview over the current state of the art, the challenges that cosmopolitanism is currently facing, and its relationship and contrasts with other theoretical strands. Etinson's article attempts to clarify the concept of cosmopolitanism. D...

The Cosmopolitan Ideal
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 288

The Cosmopolitan Ideal

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-10-06
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Examines the new internationalism which emerged in Europe during the Enlightenment. This is the study of cosmopolitanism, which takes into account feminist and post-colonial critiques of the Enlightenment. It also offers cosmopolitanism as a solution to contemporary struggles to reach a post-national political identity.

Self-Constitution
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 246

Self-Constitution

Christine M. Korsgaard presents an account of the foundation of practical reason and moral obligation, based on a new theory of action and interaction. She proposes that the function of an action is to constitute the agency and therefore the identity of the person who does it, and that only morally good action can serve this function. -;Christine M. Korsgaard presents an account of the foundation of practical reason and moral obligation. Moral philosophy aspires to understand the fact that human actions, unlike the actions of the other animals, can be morally good or bad, right or wrong. Few moral philosophers, however, have exploited the idea that actions might be morally good or bad in vir...

The Constitution of Agency
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 357

The Constitution of Agency

Christine M. Korsgaard is one of today's leading moral philosophers: this volume collects ten influential papers by her on practical reason and moral psychology. Korsgaard draws on the work of important figures in the history of philosophy such as Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Hume, showing how their ideas can inform the solution of contemporary and traditional philosophical problems, such as the foundations of morality and practical reason, the nature of agency, and the role of the emotions in action. In Part 1, The Principles of Practical Reason, Korsgaard defends the view that the principles of practical reason are constitutive principles of action. By governing our actions in accordance wi...

The Spirit of the Age
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 379

The Spirit of the Age

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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: re.press

Is it becoming more obvious today that the thinkers of the post-Hegelian era were/are not ‘able to bear the greatness, the immensity of the claims made by the human spirit’? Is our era the era of the ‘faint-hearted’ philosophy? Celebrating 200 years since the publication of The Phenomenology of Spirit this volume addresses these questions through a renewed encounter with Hegel’s thought.

Kant and the Naturalistic Turn of 18th Century Philosophy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 311

Kant and the Naturalistic Turn of 18th Century Philosophy

This book presents transcendental idealism, the metaphysics of morals, and other Kantian innovations in philosophy as a reaction to 18th century developments in the life and human sciences. It sheds new light on all major aspects of Kant's philosophy and opens avenues for further research.

On Holy Ground: The Theory and Practice of Religious Education
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 224

On Holy Ground: The Theory and Practice of Religious Education

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  • Published: 2013-07-18
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Religion has had notable and renewed prominence in contemporary public and political life. Religious questions have also been freshly examined in philosophy and theology, the natural sciences, the social sciences, psychology, phenomenology, politics and the arts. These fields reflect complex, multi-disciplinary understandings of religion, some hostile, some accommodating. For religious education this has all contributed to its own international renaissance. Religious education, in ensuring it is contemporary, shares with these fields the same criticality, the same distance between the study of religion and the religious life. Yet what are the grounds of this modern religious education? Throu...

Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Hegel and the Philosophy of Right
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 401

Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Hegel and the Philosophy of Right

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  • Published: 2003-09-02
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Introduces and assesses Hegel, one of the most important figures in the history of ideas and political thought, and his Philosophy of Right, widely recognised as one of the greatest works of political philosophy.

The Future of Political Community
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 276

The Future of Political Community

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-12-04
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book explores the alternative futures of political community and moves beyond the critique of what is wrong with existing, state-based forms of political community. It does so not with the defence of a particular normative model of political community in mind, but rather in the quest for new ways of thinking about political community itself. Exploring how the political must be rethought in the twenty-first century and beyond, this book is divided into three parts: Part I focuses on the core problem that, despite the obvious need to rethink political community ‘beyond’ the nation state, our conceptual language is still thoroughly shaped by modernity, its prioritisation of the state a...