Revival: Ethical Principles in Theory and Practice (1930): An Essay in Moral Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9781138566385 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 256 str.

Hans Driesch

Opis

Almost all the existing modern systems of Ethics deal with formal definitions, and at bottom repeat more or less the same thing about them in slightly different words. In this work these are a side issue, and therefore are treated briefly.

Spis treści

Part 1 1. Theoretical Ethics and the Doctrine of Morals  2. The Meaning of "It Ought to Be"  3. Ethics and Freedom  4. Ethical Intuition, Ethical Capacity, and Good Wil l 5. Ethical Joy  6. Duty and Fellowship in Life  7. The Problem of Applied Ethics  8. That Which Ought to Be and That Which Is  9. Conspectus of the Fundamental Concepts of Ethics, with a Terminology Based Upon "Value"  10. The Problem of Concrete Ethics Further Considered  11. The Ethical Axiom  12. The Ethical Problem Restricted to the Real Part 2: The Doctrine of Duties  1. We have no Duties Towards the Non-Living  2. Duties Towards "My" Person   3. Duties Towards my Neighbour, qua Individual Person  4. Duties Towards Groups  Part 3: Enlightenment  1. False Enlightenment and Genuine Enlightenment  2. Genuine Enlightenment  3. Rationalism  4. "Realpolitik"  5. The Effects of Rational Enlightenment  6. Obstacles and How They are Overcome  Part 4: Religion as the Aim of Enlightenment  1. The Religious State, Religion and Metaphysics  2. Rational Emotions  3. True Enlightenment and Religion  4. Religious Denominations and the Church  5. Dualism and How it is Overcome

O autorze

Hans Driesch taught at the University of Wisconsin (1926-27) and in Buenos Aires (1928). In 1933 he was removed from his Leipzig chair and prematurely placed in emeritus status by the Nazi administration,the first non-Jewish academic to be thus expelled, because of his pacifism and open hostility to Nazism.