Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (160 p.)
ISBN:
9780520309722
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0520309723
Inhalt:
In this significant addition to moral theory, George W. Harris challenges a view of the dignity and worth of persons that goes back through Kant and Christianity to the Stoics. He argues that we do not, in fact, believe this view, which traces any breakdowns of character to failures of strength. When it comes to what we actually value in ourselves and others, he says, we are far more Greek than Christian. At the most profound level, we value ourselves as natur
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Description based upon print version of record
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- CHAPTER I. Strength and Quality of Character -- CHAPTER 2. Personal Love, Loyalty, and Malignant Breakdown -- CHAPTER 3. Personal Love, Loyalty, and Benign Breakdown -- CHAPTER 4. Respect and Integral Breakdown -- CHAPTER 5. Dignity, Kant, and Pure Practical Reason -- CHAPTER 6. Dignity and the Pathology of Respect -- CHAPTER 7. The Possibilities of Therapy -- CHAPTER 8. The Possibilities of Therapy -- CHAPTER 9. Troubledness and Strength of Character -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780520356368
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Harris, George W Dignity and Vulnerability Berkeley : University of California Press,c2020 ISBN 9780520356368
Sprache:
Englisch
