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Radical Hope
Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation
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ISBN-13:
9780674027466
Veröffentl:
2008
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.04.2008
Seiten:
187
Autor:
Jonathan Lear
Gewicht:
193 g
Format:
208x141x17 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Jonathan Lear is John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor on the Committee on Social Thought and in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. His works include Wisdom Won from Illness, Radical Hope, A Case for Irony, and Happiness, Death, and the Remainder of Life.
I. After This, Nothing Happened A Peculiar Vulnerability Protecting a Way of Life Gambling with Necessity Was There a Last Coup? Witness to Death Subject to Death The Possibility of Crow Poetry II. Ethics at the Horizon The End of Practical Reason Reasoning at the Abyss A Problem for Moral Psychology The Interpretation of Dreams Crow Anxiety The Virtue of the Chickadee The Transformation of Psychological Structure Radical Hope III. Critique of Abysmal Reasoning The Legitimacy of Radical Hope Aristotle's Method Radical Hope versus Mere Optimism Courage and Hope Virtue and Imagination Historical Vindication Personal Vindication Response to Sitting Bull Notes Acknowledgments Index
Plenty Coups, last great Chief of the Crow Nation, said, ¿When the buffalo went away the hearts of my people fell to the ground and they could not lift them up again. After this nothing happened.¿ In Lear¿s view, this story raises an ethical question that challenges us all: how should one face the possibility that one¿s culture might collapse?