Exploring the world of human practice : readings in and about the philosophy of Aurel Kolnai

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Exploring the world of human practice : readings in and about the philosophy of Aurel Kolnai

edited by Zoltán Balázs and Francis Dunlop

Central European University Press, 2004

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: pbk. ISBN 9789637326011

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Aurel Kolnai was born in Budapest, in 1900 and died in London, in 1973. He was, according to Karl Popper and the late Bernard Williams, one of the most original, provocative, and sensitive philosophers of the twentieth century. Kolnai's moral philosophy is best described in his own words as intrinsicalist, non-naturalist, non-reductionist", which took its original impetus from Scheler's value ethics, and was developed by using a natural phenomenologist method. The unique combination of linguistic analysis and phenomenology yields highly original ideas on classical fields of moral theory, such as responsibility and free will, the meaning of right and wrong, the universalisability of ethical norms, the role of moral emotions, internalism vs externalism, to mention a few. The volume presents a selection of essays by Kolnai, including his main political theoretical work, "What is Politics About", available in English here for the first time. The second half of the book Kolnai's work is analyzed in a series of essays by eminent scholars

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Preface About the Contents of This Volume Introduction I. Papers by Kolnai What Is Politics About? A Note on the Meaning of Right and Wrong Erroneous Conscience Are There Degrees of Ethical Universality? The Concept of Practical Error Actions and Inactions Agency and Freedom The Indispensability of Philosophy II. Papers about Kolnai's Work 1. Introductory The Ethical Theories of Aurel Kolnai, John Beach Kolnai's Mature Political Philosophy, Lee Congdon 2. Politics and Utopia The Democratic Subversion of Political Liberty and Participation, John P. Hittinger Liberty, Equality, Nobility: Aurel Kolnai and the Moral Foundations of Democracy, Daniel J. Mahoney Aurel Kolnai: A Political Philosopher Confronts the Scourge of Our Epoch, Pierre Manent Aurel Kolnai and Utopia, David Wiggins 3. Ethics Aims in Games and Moral Purposes, Lorand Ambrus-Lakatos Kolnai and Kant on (Human) Dignity, Zoltan Balazs Kolnai's Dissertation "Der ethische Wert und die Wirklichkeit": A "Completion" of Scheler's Value-Ethics, Francis Dunlop The Nature and Scope of Ordinary Morality: Some Reflections in the Spirit of Aurel Kolnai, M. W. F. Stone 4. Feeling and Emotion Is Love Intertwined with Hatred? Andreas Dorschel Kolnai's Idea of Emotional Presentation, Thomas Norgaard Aurel Kolnai's "Disgust": A Source in the Art and Writing of Salvador Dali, Robert Radford About the Contributors to This Volume Index
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ISBN 9789639241978

Description

Aurel Kolnai was born in Budapest, in 1900 and died in London, in 1973. He was, according to Karl Popper and the late Bernard Williams, one of the most original, provocative, and sensitive philosophers of the twentieth century. Kolnai's moral philosophy is best described in his own words as intrinsicalist, non-naturalist, non-reductionist", which took its original impetus from Scheler's value ethics, and was developed by using a natural phenomenologist method. The unique combination of linguistic analysis and phenomenology yields highly original ideas on classical fields of moral theory, such as responsibility and free will, the meaning of right and wrong, the universalisability of ethical norms, the role of moral emotions, internalism vs externalism, to mention a few. The volume presents a selection of essays by Kolnai, including his main political theoretical work, "What is Politics About", available in English here for the first time. The second half of the book Kolnai's work is analyzed in a series of essays by eminent scholars

Table of Contents

  • Preface
  • About the contents of this volume
  • Introduction
  • 1. Papers by Kolnai
  • What is Politics About?
  • A Note on the Meaning of Right and Wrong
  • Erroneous Conscience
  • Addendum to "Erroneous Conscience"
  • Are There Degrees of Ethical Universality?
  • The Concept of Practical Error
  • Actions and Inactions
  • Agency and Freedom
  • The Indispensability of Philosophy
  • 2. Papers about Kolnai's work
  • (i) Introductory
  • The Ethical Theories of Aurel Kolnai, John Beach
  • Kolnai's Mature Political Philosophy, Lee Congdon
  • (ii) Politics and Utopia
  • The Democratic subversion of political Liberty and Participation, John P. Hittinger
  • Liberty, Equality, Nobility: Aurel Kolnai and the Moral Foundations of Democracy, Daniel J. Mahoney
  • Aurel Kolnai: A Political Philosopher Confronts the Scourge of our Epoch, Pierre Manent
  • Aurel Kolnai and Utopia, David Wiggins
  • (iii) Ethics
  • Aims in Games and Moral Purposes, Lorand Ambrus-Lakatos
  • Kolnai and Kant on (Human) Dignity, Zoltan Balazs
  • Kolnai's Dissertation "Der ethische Wert und die Wirklichkeit": a "Completion" of Scheler's Value-Ethics, Francis Dunlop
  • The Nature and Scope of Ordinary Morality: Some Reflections in the Spirit of Aurel Kolnai, M.W.F. Stone
  • (iv) Feeling and Emotion
  • Is Love Intertwined with Hatred?, Andreas Dorschel
  • Kolnai's Idea of Emotional Presentation, Thomas Norgaard
  • Aurel Kolnai's "Disgust": A Source in the Art and Writing of Salvador Dali, Robert Radford
  • About the contributors to this volume
  • Index.

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