Mastery, Dependence, and the Ethics of Authority

ISBN-13: 9780190052300 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 372 str.

Aaron Stalnaker

Opis

Mastery, Dependence, and the Ethics of Authority is an analysis of expertise and authority. Stalnaker examines classical Confucian conceptions of mastery, dependence, and human relationships in order to suggest new approaches to these issues in ethics and political theory.

O autorze

Aaron Stalnaker is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University. He is the author of Overcoming Our Evil: Human Nature and Spiritual Exercises in Xunzi and Augustine (Georgetown University Press, 2006), and has published articles in the Journal of Religious Ethics, Soundings, Philosophy East and West, Dao, and International Philosophical Quarterly, among other venues. He founded the Comparative Religious Ethics group within the American Academy of Religion, and is currently Associate Editor of the Journal of Religious Ethics.