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1350122858
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9781350122888
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9781350122857
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9781350122864
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"Is there any such thing as a single ethical system to which all human beings could conceivably subscribe? The short answer is no; and most people, being tolerant, would probably agree with this answer. Yet most people, precisely in being tolerant, also subscribe to an idea of "human rights" which presupposes just such a universal ethics. This basic question of ethics is similarly treacherous when approached on a higher technical level. Specialists have long recognized that Kant's categorical imperative is neither theoretically nor practically tenable. But efforts to revive and repair the Kantian project-including especially the monumental work of Jürgen Habermas-have all themselves been theoretically questionable, while developing a complexity that makes them impractical. Must we then simply do without ethics in the sense of a universal ethical method? By way of a close study of literary and philosophical texts, from Freud to Machiavelli, Benjamin Bennett shows why the failure of a universal or propositional ethics is indeed unavoidable. He uncovers a modern non-propositional ethics that cannot be grasped in a single theoretical move but can only be approached as a collection of instances of a modern ethical "we', three key examples of which Bennett explores in this book: - The "we" of irony, whose speakers share a strictly preter-verbal knowledge which is concealed in their actual utterances - The insistent exclusive "we" of a group that has neither its own physical locality nor even a clear intellectual identity, comparable to the "we' of Jews in the diaspora - The "we' of feminism, a separate "we' from that embracing people who happen to have been born women."--
Inhalt:
Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Preliminary Remarks: -- Wittgenstein and Strawson -- Chapter One: Introduction: -- Ethics, "Literature,' and Irony -- Chapter Two: Nietzsche and -- Rorty: The Ethics of Irony -- Chapter Three: Kant and -- Leibniz -- Chapter Four: Lessing: History, -- Irony, and Diaspora -- Chapter Five: Lessing and -- Freud: Theory, Wisdom, and the Scope of Ethics -- Chapter Six: Habermas, Rorty, -- and Machiavelli -- Chapter Seven: Woolf, -- Bachmann, Wittig: Toward a Feminist Ethics -- Conclusion, or Not.
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Bennett, Benjamin, 1939 - Shaping a modern ethics London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020 ISBN 1350122858
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ISBN 9781350122857
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Universalismus
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Humanismus
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Ethik
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Geschichte
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DOI:
10.5040/9781350122888
Mehr zum Autor:
Bennett, Benjamin 1939-
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