Josep Corbí

Morality, Self Knowledge and Human Suffering

An Essay on the Loss of Confidence in the World

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Produktbeschreibung

In this wholly original study, Josep Corbi asks how one should relate to a certain kind of human suffering, namely, the harm that people cause one another. Relying upon real life examples of human suffering--including torture, genocide, and warfare--as opposed to thought experiments, Corbi proposes a novel approach to self-knowledge that runs counter to standard Kantian approaches to morality.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781138922204
• ISBN-10: 113892220X
• Artikelnr.: 42233304

Autorenporträt

Josep E. Corbí is a full professor at the University of Valencia. He has published Minds, Causes, and Mechanisms. A Case Against Mechanisms (with Josep L. Prades; Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2000) and Un lugar para la moral (Madrid: Antonio Machado, 2003), as well as a number of papers in philosophy of mind, meta-ethics and epistemology.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Thought Experiments, Justice, and Character 3. The Loss
of Confidence in the World 4. The Real and the Imaginary in the Soldier's
Experience 5. The Reality of Moral Features 6. Moral Principles and the
Divided Conception of the Self 7 Self-Knowledge in the Light of a Dance 8.
Conclusion: Toward Expressive Awareness