Blindly Seeing
Essays in Ethics: Discourses, Sayings, Sufferings
Published on 11. December 2017
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Blindsight. Absence of visual awareness despite the presence of visual capacity. . Philosophical interest arises because the phenomenon casts doubt on the relation usually assumed between consciousness and perception.
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Contents
Preface
Introductions: Intuitions: Religious, Literary, and Ethical
Moral Intuitionism
Moral and Ethical Visions
A Condition for Moral and Ethical Vision?
Envoi
Endnotes
Part One: Discourses
Essay I: Understanding European and Islamic Cultures
Lines From An Arabic Lyric
Understanding Figurative Discourses Externally
A Difficulty With Cultural Externalism
Understanding Figurative Discourses Internally
A Problem With Cultural Internalism
Why Cultural Internalism and Externalism Fail
An Objection
What This Figurative Discourse Is About
Envoi
Endnotes
Essay II: Figurative Discourse in Japanese Poetry
Beside the Stream of Izumi
A Culturally Internalist Account of Interpretation
Interpretation and Metaphysics
Interpretation as an Active Ascension of the Spirit
Metaphysics and Aesthetics
Interpreting Figurative Discourses Metaphysically
Envoi
Endnotes
Part Two: Apprehending and Saying
Essay III: On Being Enabled to Say What Is "Truly Real"
Language and 'What Is Truly Real'
Inquiring of Shinran
Illusion, Deception, Lies and Foolishness
Considering an Interpretation
Hearing a Second Question
Envoi
Endnotes
Essay IV: Apprehending Truths About Suffering
Representative Eco-Ethical Claims
Elements of A Mixed Theory of Truth
Self-Referential Eco-Ethical Claims
An Eco-Ethical Theory of Truth?
Eco-Ethical Claims and Suffering
Fictional Truths?
Envoi
Endnotes
Part Three: Ethics and Suffering
Essay V: Elements for an Ethics of Suffering
Ordinary Senses of "Suffering"
Special Senses of "Suffering"
What is the Suffering in an Ethics of Suffering?
What An Ethics of Suffering Tries to Address
On Several Elements for An Ethics of Suffering
Envoi
Endnotes
Essay VI: Seeing the Truth of Ethical Matters
Truth as "Makoto"
A Problem with Truth as Exclusively Logos
Intuitions and Moral Intuitionism
Seeing Ethical Values?
Ethical Intuiting as "Seeing" Ethical Truths
Envoi
Endnotes
Envoi: Of Blindly Seeing
Preface
Introductions: Intuitions: Religious, Literary, and Ethical
Moral Intuitionism
Moral and Ethical Visions
A Condition for Moral and Ethical Vision?
Envoi
Endnotes
Part One: Discourses
Essay I: Understanding European and Islamic Cultures
Lines From An Arabic Lyric
Understanding Figurative Discourses Externally
A Difficulty With Cultural Externalism
Understanding Figurative Discourses Internally
A Problem With Cultural Internalism
Why Cultural Internalism and Externalism Fail
An Objection
What This Figurative Discourse Is About
Envoi
Endnotes
Essay II: Figurative Discourse in Japanese Poetry
Beside the Stream of Izumi
A Culturally Internalist Account of Interpretation
Interpretation and Metaphysics
Interpretation as an Active Ascension of the Spirit
Metaphysics and Aesthetics
Interpreting Figurative Discourses Metaphysically
Envoi
Endnotes
Part Two: Apprehending and Saying
Essay III: On Being Enabled to Say What Is "Truly Real"
Language and 'What Is Truly Real'
Inquiring of Shinran
Illusion, Deception, Lies and Foolishness
Considering an Interpretation
Hearing a Second Question
Envoi
Endnotes
Essay IV: Apprehending Truths About Suffering
Representative Eco-Ethical Claims
Elements of A Mixed Theory of Truth
Self-Referential Eco-Ethical Claims
An Eco-Ethical Theory of Truth?
Eco-Ethical Claims and Suffering
Fictional Truths?
Envoi
Endnotes
Part Three: Ethics and Suffering
Essay V: Elements for an Ethics of Suffering
Ordinary Senses of "Suffering"
Special Senses of "Suffering"
What is the Suffering in an Ethics of Suffering?
What An Ethics of Suffering Tries to Address
On Several Elements for An Ethics of Suffering
Envoi
Endnotes
Essay VI: Seeing the Truth of Ethical Matters
Truth as "Makoto"
A Problem with Truth as Exclusively Logos
Intuitions and Moral Intuitionism
Seeing Ethical Values?
Ethical Intuiting as "Seeing" Ethical Truths
Envoi
Endnotes
Envoi: Of Blindly Seeing