Philosophy, Ethics and a Common Humanity : Essays in Honour of Raimond Gaita

ISBN-13: 9780415546386 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 264 str.

Christopher Cordner

Opis

In this collection, an international team of contributors examine the full range of Raimond Gaita's thought, including philosophy and biography, the unthinkable, Plato and ancient philosophy, animals, Wittgenstein, the religious dimensions of Gaita's work, Aboriginal reconciliation in Australia, and psychology and ethics.

Spis treści

Raimond Gaita: A brief biography  Introduction  1. Gaita on recognizing the human Lars Hertzberg  2. The work of saintly love: the religious impulse in Gaita’s writing Stephen Mulhall  3. Insanity, crankiness and evil - and other ways of thinking the unthinkable Jonathan Glover  4. Gaita and Plato: goodness, love and beauty Christopher Cordner  5. Good and Evil and the criminal law Antony Duff  6. In search of goodness Marina Barabas  7. Human dignity between kitsch and deification Avishai Margalit  8. The meaning of what we have done: humanity, invisibility and law in the European settlement of Australia Martin Krygier  9. Primo Levi: an appreciation Robert Manne  10. "It goes deep with me": Plato’s Charmides on knowledge, self-knowledge and integrity M.M. McCabe  11. Romulus, My Father and the ‘virtues of truth’ Genevieve Lloyd  12. Form and content in Romulus, My Father Peter Coghlan  13. On adapting Romulus, My Father Nick Drake  14. A poem and its haunting Peter Steele.  Index

O autorze

Christopher Cordner is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His main area of interest is moral philosophy, including its Greek and Christian tributaries, and its overlap with aesthetics. He is currently writing a book called Simple Goodness.