Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-Up Idealists - Revised Edition

ISBN-13: 9780691143897 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 480 str.

Opis

For years, moral language has been the province of the Right, as the Left has consoled itself with rudderless pragmatism. In this profound and powerful book, Susan Neiman reclaims the vocabulary of morality--good and evil, heroism and nobility--as a lingua franca for the twenty-first century. In constructing a framework for taking responsible action on today's urgent questions, Neiman reaches back to the eighteenth century, retrieving a series of values--happiness, reason, reverence, and hope--held high by Enlightenment thinkers. In this thoroughly updated edition, Neiman reflects on how the moral language of the 2008 presidential campaign has opened up new political and cultural possibilities in America and beyond.

O autorze

Susan Neiman, geb. 1955, ist Direktorin des Einstein Forums. Sie studierte Philosophie bei John Rawls an der Harvard University und bei Margherita von Brentano an der FU Berlin. Danach Professorin für Philosophie an der Yale University und der Tel Aviv University.