An ethics of personality

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An ethics of personality

Agnes Heller

Blackwell, 1996

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  • : pbk

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Includes index

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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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  • NCID
    BA27248124
  • ISBN
    • 063119889X
    • 0631198911
  • LCCN
    95011587
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Oxford, UK
  • Pages/Volumes
    316 p.
  • Size
    23 cm
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