Between Freedom and Necessity: An Essay on the Place of ValueRodopi, 2000 - 131 Seiten This extended essay joins an old conversation at the intersection of freedom and necessity. Though it takes place at the beginning of the twenty-first century by the "Christian" reckoning that has become an integral part of European identity, it will at times read like a conversation between classical Greece and nineteenth-century Europe. The cast consists of characters drawn from Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Plato as well as the authors themselves - Plato, Aristotle, Locke, Hume, Kant, Kierkegaard, MacIntyre, and Nussbaum. Some of these writers have been associated with displaced, displacing claims of universality; but each is in place and in time in ways that are instructive for ethics. Myth, the matter of stories, becomes also the matter of critical reflection, which in turn is subjected to critical reflection. Every fragment of philosophy is a contribution to the reflection, and it is nothing if it is separated from the matter - the stories, the myths, and the characters (including us) who both make them and live in them. |
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... necessary to admonish people to obey the law of gravity . Nor is it necessary , many economists since Adam Smith would tell us , to admonish people to make purchasing and investment decisions on the basis of self - interest ...
... necessary to admonish people to obey the law of gravity . Nor is it necessary , many economists since Adam Smith would tell us , to admonish people to make purchasing and investment decisions on the basis of self - interest ...
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... necessary actions motivated by self - interest . The tools are ready at hand : while necessary actions of economic agents circulate in ways that constrain social relationships and human freedom , free actions of aesthetic and ethical ...
... necessary actions motivated by self - interest . The tools are ready at hand : while necessary actions of economic agents circulate in ways that constrain social relationships and human freedom , free actions of aesthetic and ethical ...
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... necessary to acquire a thing . This effectively detaches both labor and value from production . For Marx , production is fundamental to being human : the human is not being so much as becoming . This is most evident in his analyses of ...
... necessary to acquire a thing . This effectively detaches both labor and value from production . For Marx , production is fundamental to being human : the human is not being so much as becoming . This is most evident in his analyses of ...
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... necessary ; if not - p is necessary , p is not possible ) as a basis for his understanding of play is instructive : play is a process by which possibility is cultivated in a field of necessity . Is there an analogous process in ethics ...
... necessary ; if not - p is necessary , p is not possible ) as a basis for his understanding of play is instructive : play is a process by which possibility is cultivated in a field of necessity . Is there an analogous process in ethics ...
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| 9 | |
The End of Ethics | 17 |
Virtue in Action | 25 |
A Science of Measurement | 31 |
Nature and Human Nature | 65 |
EIGHT | 71 |
The Soul of Tragedy | 77 |
Prudence | 50 |
Active Desire | |
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Seite 94 - Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here ?' 'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat. 'I don't much care where ' said Alice. 'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat. ' so long as I get somewhere' Alice added as an explanation. , 'Oh, you're sure to do that,' said the Cat, 'if you only walk long enough.
Seite 95 - Oh, you're sure to do that," said the Cat, "if you only walk long enough." Alice felt that this could not be denied, so she tried another question. "What sort of people live about here?" "In that direction," the Cat said, waving its right paw round, "lives a Hatter: and in that direction," waving the other paw, "lives a March Hare. Visit either you like : they're both mad.
Seite 10 - The value of any commodity, therefore, to the person who possesses it, and who means not to use or consume it himself, but to exchange it for other commodities, is equal to the quantity of labour which it enables him to purchase or command. Labour, therefore, is the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities.
Seite 41 - practice" I am going to mean any coherent and complex form of socially established cooperative human activity through which goods internal to that form of activity are realized in the course of trying to achieve those standards of excellence which are appropriate to, and partially definitive of, that form of activity, with the result that human powers to achieve excellence, and human conceptions of the ends and goods involved, are systematically extended.
Seite 95 - How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here.
Seite 19 - So that the idea of liberty is the idea of a power in any agent to do or forbear any particular action, according to the determination or thought of the mind, whereby either of them is preferred to the other...
Seite 41 - Maclntyre, a virtue is an acquired human quality the possession and exercise of which tends to enable us to achieve those goods which are internal to practices...
Seite 60 - I would call symbols), culture is not a power, something to which social events, behaviors, institutions, or processes can be causally attributed; it is a context, something within which they can be intelligibly— that is, thickly— described.
Seite 94 - Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in.
Seite 60 - Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs, and the analysis of it to be therefore not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretive one in search of meaning.