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Hoffnung - den Zumutungen des Lebens zum Trotz

Kieran Setiya zeigt, wie wir mithilfe der Philosophie den Zumutungen des Lebens begegnen und angesichts von Einsamkeit, Leid und Trauer nach Sinn suchen können.

Im Grunde ist es fatal: Wir alle streben nach dem schönsten und besten Leben und zugleich müssen wir immer wieder schmerzhaft feststellen, dass die Wirklichkeit böse Überraschungen bereithält. Krankheit, Einsamkeit, Trauer, Scheitern, Ungerechtigkeit - überall begegnet uns menschliches Leid, vor dem wir die Augen nicht verschließen...

Philosophical wisdom and practical advice for overcoming the problems of middle age

How can you reconcile yourself with the lives you will never lead, with possibilities foreclosed, and with nostalgia for lost youth? How can you accept the failings of the past, the sense of futility in the tasks that consume the present, and the prospect of death that blights the future? In this self-help book with a difference, Kieran Setiya confronts the inevitable challenges of adulthood and middle age, showing how philosophy can help you thrive.

You will learn why missing out might...

Modern philosophy has been vexed by the question "Why should I be moral?" and by doubts about the rational authority of moral virtue. In Reasons without Rationalism, Kieran Setiya shows that these doubts rest on a mistake. The "should" of practical reason cannot be understood apart from the virtues of character, including such moral virtues as justice and benevolence, and the considerations to which the virtues make one sensitive thereby count as reasons to act.

Proposing a new framework for debates about practical reason, Setiya argues that the only alternative to this...

Some of the most challenging questions in philosophical ethics concern the justification of action. Can you have reasons to do something that you are not, and perhaps cannot be, motivated to do? If reasons rest on desires, why respect the rights and interests of others when doing so prevents us from getting what we want? In other words, why be moral? In his 1979 essay, "Internal and External Reasons," Bernard Williams framed the dispute about reason and motivation in a way that captured the philosophical imagination. An explosion of work on reasons and action followed, with influential...