Living without philosophy : on narrative rhetoric, and morality

著者

• Levine, Peter

書誌事項

Living without philosophy : on narrative rhetoric, and morality

Peter Levine

State University of New York Press, 1998

• : pbk.

注記

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Living Without Philosophy argues that we do not need ethical theories, rules, and principles to decide what is right. Instead, particular cases can be judged by a detailed description of the relevant circumstances. When our judgments differ, we can decide how to act by deliberating under fair conditions. The author provides both a philosophical argument for this position and readings of literary texts in which moral theorists are portrayed as concrete characters. These works include Plato's Protagoras, selections from the Gospels and Dante, Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, the debate between Erasmus and Luther, Erasmus's Praise of Folly, Shakespeare's King Lear, Nabokov's Lolita, and Martin Luther King's Letter from a Birmingham Jail. Thus, Levine offers essentially a moral argument for the humanities, discussing the implications not only for ethics, but also for theology, law, politics, and education.

目次

Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. The Abstract Argument 1. Moral Judgment An Ethical Problem The Meaning of Moral Words "Thick Description" and Aspect-Seeing A Legal Illustration Aristotle's View Objections to Rhetoric The Sufficiency of Judgment 2. Agreement The Ideal of Consensus Consensus and Moral Theory Moral Relativism Philosophy and Liberation Democracy or the Market? Part II. Concrete Illustrations 3. A Philosopher Encounters a Humanist Socrates and Protagoras The Dialogue: Opening The "Great Speech" Socrates' Dialectical Response A Debate about Method Simonides and the Problem of Contingency Dialectical Conclusion Who Wins the Debate? 4. Instructive Tragedy, Ancient and Modern Aristotle on Tragedy Objections to Aristotle Nabokov's Modern Tragedy Nabokov's Intentions 5. Religion versus Theology Metaphysics in Religion The Non-Metaphysical Roots of Judeo-Christian Religion Christianity Encounters Greek Philosophy Asceticism and Iconoclasm The Consolation of Philosophy From Boethius to Dante Theology and Spiritual Experience 6. Humanists and Scholastics in the Renaissance Humanism versus Scholasticism Humanist Methods of Interpretation The Educational and Political Ideals of the Humanists Erasmus and Christian Humanism Luther as Humanist Erasmus versus Luther 7. The Wise Fool The Praise of Folly Shakespeare as Humanist King Lear A Market Metaphor Natural Law A Man Pregnant to Good Pity Seeing and Blindness Shame and the Consolations of Philosophy This Great Stage of Fools That Glib and Oily Art Conclusion: The Beloved Community Notes Index

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA37579478
• ISBN:
  • 079143897X
  • 0791438988
• LCCN: 98007524
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Albany, NY
• ページ数/冊数: ix, 292 p.
• 大きさ: 23 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : BJ42
  • DC21 : 170
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Ethics
  • LCSH : Description (Rhetoric)