An ethics of personality
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An ethics of personality
Blackwell, 1996
- : hbk
- : pbk
Available at 36 libraries
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Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume addresses the ultimate question of modern ethics: how is morality possible after the "death of God". It is the closing volume - after "General Ethics" and "Philosophy of Morals" - of Agnes Heller's trilogy "A Theory of Morals". The book opens by exploring Nietszche's ethics of personality as exemplified in his passionate critical engagement with Wagner's Parsifal in a reading of his "A Geneology of Morals". It continues by examining the case for a non-absolutist ethics employing ideas, norms and rules from traditional and modern moral philosophies, particularly those of Kant and Kierkgaard. It concludes by proposing the re-introduction of such traditional concepts as love, beauty and happiness into modern ethics.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Nietzsche and the Parsifal: prolegomena to an ethics of personality
- five lectures. Part 2 Vera, or - is an ethics of personality possible?: three dialogues. Part 3 Letters concerning moral aesthetics: on the beautiful and the sublime character
- on happiness and love.
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