Exploring the World of Human Practice
Readings in and about the Philosophy of Aurel Kolnai
Published on 10. December 2004
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Hardback
354 pages
978-963-9241-97-8 (ISBN)
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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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Language
English
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Oxford
Hungary
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Academic
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Height: 234 mm
Width: 163 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
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653 gr
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978-963-9241-97-8 (9789639241978)
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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
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Persons
Zoltan Balazs is Associate Professor at the Peter Pazmany Catholic University, Budapest-Piliscsaba, and author of The Political Community (Budapest: Osiris, 2003) and Aurel Kolnai (Budapest: Uj Mandatum, 2003).
Francis Dunlop is Honorary Lecturer of the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, and author of The Life and Thought of Aurel Kolnai (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002) and Early Ethical Writings of Aurel Kolnai (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004).
Francis Dunlop is Honorary Lecturer of the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, and author of The Life and Thought of Aurel Kolnai (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002) and Early Ethical Writings of Aurel Kolnai (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004).
Content
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