UID:
almafu_9959243725702883
Format:
1 online resource (208 p. )
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4 halftones
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780674040021
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0674040023
Content:
Presents the story of Plenty Coups, the last great Chief of the Crow Nation. This title contains a philosophical and ethical inquiry into a people faced with the end of their way of life.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Illustrations --
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I. After this , nothing happened A Peculiar Vulnerability • Protecting a Way of Life • Gambling with Necessity • Was There a Last Coup? • Witness to Death • Subject to Death • The Possibility of Crow Poetry --
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II. Ethics at the horizon The End of Practical Reason • Reasoning at the Abyss • A Problem for Moral Psychology • The Interpretation of Dreams • Crow Anxiety • The Virtue of the Chickadee • The Transformation of Psychological Structure • Radical Hope --
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III. Critique of abysmal reasoning The Legitimacy of Radical Hope • Aristotle’s Method • Radical Hope versus Mere Optimism • Courage and Hope • Virtue and Imagination • Historical Vindication • Personal Vindication • Response to Sitting Bull --
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Notes --
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Acknowledgments --
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Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780674027466
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0674027469
Language:
English
Subjects:
Philosophy
DOI:
10.4159/9780674040021
