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Enjoyment: The Moral Significance of Styles of Life
ISBN: 9780199592494 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this book John Kekes examines the indispensable role enjoyment plays in a good life. The key to it is the development of a style of life that combines an attitude and a manner of living and acting that jointly express one's deepest concerns. Since such styles vary with characters and circumstances, a reasonable understanding of them requires attending to the particular and concrete details of individual lives. Reflection on works of literature is a better guide to this kind of understanding than the futile search for general theories and principles that preoccupies much of contemporary...
In this book John Kekes examines the indispensable role enjoyment plays in a good life. The key to it is the development of a style of life that combi...
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How Should We Live?: A Practical Approach to Everyday Morality
ISBN: 9780226155654 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. What is your highest ideal? What code do you live by? We all know that these differ from person to person. Artists, scientists, social activists, farmers, executives, and athletes are guided by very different ideals. Nonetheless for hundreds of years philosophers have sought a single, overriding ideal that should guide everyone, always, everywhere, and after centuries of debate we re no closer to an answer. In How Should We Live?, John Kekes offers a refreshing alternative, one in which we eschew absolute ideals and instead consider our lives as they really are, day by day, subject to...
What is your highest ideal? What code do you live by? We all know that these differ from person to person. Artists, scientists, social activists, farm...
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The Roots of Evil
ISBN: 9780801443688 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "Evil is the most serious of our moral problems. All over the world cruelty, greed, prejudice, and fanaticism ruin the lives of countless victims. Outrage provokes outrage. Millions nurture seething hatred of real or imagined enemies, revealing savage and destructive tendencies in human nature. Understanding this challenges our optimistic illusions about the effectiveness of reason and morality in bettering human lives. But abandoning these illusions is vitally important because they are obstacles to countering the threat of evil. The aim of this book is to explain why people act in these... "Evil is the most serious of our moral problems. All over the world cruelty, greed, prejudice, and fanaticism ruin the lives of countless victims. ... |
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290,73 |
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Human Predicaments: And What to Do about Them
ISBN: 9780226638911 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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134,86 |
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The Roots of Evil
ISBN: 9780801473814 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "Evil is the most serious of our moral problems. All over the world cruelty, greed, prejudice, and fanaticism ruin the lives of countless victims. Outrage provokes outrage. Millions nurture seething hatred of real or imagined enemies, revealing savage and destructive tendencies in human nature. Understanding this challenges our optimistic illusions about the effectiveness of reason and morality in bettering human lives. But abandoning these illusions is vitally important because they are obstacles to countering the threat of evil. The aim of this book is to explain why people act in these... "Evil is the most serious of our moral problems. All over the world cruelty, greed, prejudice, and fanaticism ruin the lives of countless victims. ... |
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A Case for Conservatism
ISBN: 9780801435560 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In his earlier work, Against Liberalism, philosopher John Kekes argued that liberalism as a political system is doomed to failure by its internal inconsistencies. In this companion volume, he makes the case for conservatism as the best alternative. Conservatism, he maintains, is concerned with the political arrangements that enable members of a society to live good lives. These political arrangements are based on scepticism about ideologies, pluralism about values, traditionalism about institutions, and pessimism about human perfectibility.
In his earlier work, Against Liberalism, philosopher John Kekes argued that liberalism as a political system is doomed to failure by its internal inco...
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Against Liberalism
ISBN: 9780801433610 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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Moral Wisdom and Good Lives
ISBN: 9780801482786 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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Moral Tradition and Individuality
ISBN: 9780691023489 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In this study, John Kekes develops the view that good lives depend on maintaining a balance between one's moral tradition and individuality. Our moral tradition provides the forms of good lives and the permissible ways of trying to achieve them. But to do so, the author argues, we must grow in self-knowledge and self-control to make our characters suitable for realizing our aspirations. In addressing general readers as well as scholars, Kekes makes these philosophical views concrete by drawing on a rich variety of literary sources, including, among others, the works of Sophocles, Henry... In this study, John Kekes develops the view that good lives depend on maintaining a balance between one's moral tradition and individuality. Our mo... |
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The Nature of Philosophical Problems
ISBN: 9780198712756 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. We must all make choices about how we want to live. We evaluate our possibilities by relying on historical, moral, personal, political, religious, and scientific modes of evaluations, but the values and reasons that follow from them conflict. Philosophical problems are forced on us when we try to cope with such conflicts. There are reasons for and against all proposed ways of coping with the conflicts, but none of them has been generally accepted by reasonable thinkers. The constructive aim of The Nature of Philosophical Problems is to propose a way of understanding the nature of such...
We must all make choices about how we want to live. We evaluate our possibilities by relying on historical, moral, personal, political, religious, and...
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The Art of Life: The Culture and Politics of Class Formation
ISBN: 9780801440069 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "That the art of life is creative, imaginative, and individual does not mean . . . that it cannot be taught and learned or that individuals cannot improve their mastery of it. Teaching it proceeds by way of exemplary lives, and learning it consists in coming to appreciate what makes some lives exemplary. . . . That imitation here is impossible does not mean one cannot learn from examples. The question is, How can that be done reasonably; how can decisions about how one should live escape being arbitrary, if they are left to individual creativity and imagination and are not governed by rules...
"That the art of life is creative, imaginative, and individual does not mean . . . that it cannot be taught and learned or that individuals cannot imp...
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Hard Questions: Facing the Problems of Life
ISBN: 9780190919986 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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The Illusions of Egalitarianism
ISBN: 9780801473395 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In this systematic and scathing attack on the dominant contemporary version of liberalism, John Kekes challenges political assumptions shared by the majority of people in Western societies. Egalitarianism, as it's widely known, holds that a government ought to treat all citizens with equal consideration. Kekes charges that belief in egalitarianism rests on illusions that prevent people from facing unpleasant truths.Kekes, a major voice in modern political thought, argues that differences among human beings in the areas of morality, reasonability, legality, and citizenship are too important...
In this systematic and scathing attack on the dominant contemporary version of liberalism, John Kekes challenges political assumptions shared by the m...
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Moral Wisdom and Good Lives
ISBN: 9780801431715 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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The Art of Life
ISBN: 9780801489792 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "That the art of life is creative, imaginative, and individual does not mean . . . that it cannot be taught and learned or that individuals cannot improve their mastery of it. Teaching it proceeds by way of exemplary lives, and learning it consists in coming to appreciate what makes some lives exemplary. . . . That imitation here is impossible does not mean one cannot learn from examples. The question is, How can that be done reasonably; how can decisions about how one should live escape being arbitrary, if they are left to individual creativity and imagination and are not governed by rules...
"That the art of life is creative, imaginative, and individual does not mean . . . that it cannot be taught and learned or that individuals cannot imp...
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152,75 |
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Enjoyment: The Moral Significance of Styles of Life
ISBN: 9780199546923 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this book John Kekes examines the indispensable role enjoyment plays in a good life. The key to it is the development of a style of life that combines an attitude and a manner of living and acting that jointly express one's deepest concerns. Since such styles vary with characters and circumstances, a reasonable understanding of them requires attending to the particular and concrete details of individual lives. Reflection on works of literature is a better guide to this kind of understanding than the futile search for general theories and principles that preoccupies much of contemporary...
In this book John Kekes examines the indispensable role enjoyment plays in a good life. The key to it is the development of a style of life that combi...
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176,64 |
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Moderate Conservatism: Reclaiming the Center
ISBN: 9780197668061 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Facing Evil
ISBN: 9780691020952 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Arguing that the prevalence of evil presents a fundamental problem for our secular sensibility, John Kekes develops a conception of character-morality as a response. He shows that the main sources of evil are habitual, unchosen actions produced by our character defects and that we can increase our control over the evil we cause by cultivating a reflective temper. Arguing that the prevalence of evil presents a fundamental problem for our secular sensibility, John Kekes develops a conception of character-moral... |
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Against Liberalism
ISBN: 9780801484001 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The author presents a critique of the assumptions that lie behind liberal policies. John Kekes demonstrates that individual autonomy is only one among the necessary conditions of human well-being and that peace, social cohesion and a healthy environment are just as important.
The author presents a critique of the assumptions that lie behind liberal policies. John Kekes demonstrates that individual autonomy is only one among...
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152,75 |
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Pluralism in Philosophy
ISBN: 9780801438059 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This original and ambitious book aims to change how we think about good lives. The perennial debates about good lives the disagreements caused by conflicts between scientific, religious, moral, historical, aesthetic, and subjective modes of reflection typically end in an impasse. This leaves the underlying problems of the meaning of life, the possibility of free action, the place of morality in good lives, the art of life, and human self-understanding as intractable as they have ever been.The way out of this impasse, argues Kekes, is to abandon the assumption shared by the contending parties...
This original and ambitious book aims to change how we think about good lives. The perennial debates about good lives the disagreements caused by conf...
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