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On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Ethics and Politics Charles E. Scott

On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Ethics and Politics By Charles E. Scott

On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Ethics and Politics by Charles E. Scott


Summary

Provocatively examines the paradox that our ethical and political ideals and values may perpetuate the very evils they intend to prevent.

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On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Ethics and Politics Summary

On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Ethics and Politics by Charles E. Scott

". . . remarkable account of the impact of postmodern philosophy on the question of ethics and politics . . . commendable also for its balanced view of Heidegger's relationship to politics and ethics. . . . an excellent account of Heidegger's philosophical understanding of technology . . ." -Choice

This book takes as its point of departure the question of ethics: that values and their pursuit in the West often perpetuate their own worst enemies. At issue are the dangers in the structures and movements of images, values, and ways of knowing that are most intimately a part of our lives.

About Charles E. Scott

CHARLES E. SCOTT holds The Edwin Erle Sparks Chair in Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. His publications include The Question of Ethics, The Language of Difference, and Boundaries in Mind: A Study of Immediate Awareness Based in Psychotherapy.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Selected Works Cited
Introduction: Crossing the Ethical by "the" Nonethical

1. Nonbelonging/Authenticity

2. Language in a Passing Sense of Transcendence

3. Ethics in a Passing Sense of Transcendence

4. A (Non-) Passing Sense of Tragedy

5. Thinking Noninterpretively

6. The Ascetic Ideal: Nietzsche contra Heidegger

7. Transition: "What Is Paris Doing to US?"

8. Self-Fragmentation: The Danger to Ethics

9. "Not to Be Trapped by Abuse...": Genealogy and a Child's Pain

10. Responsibility and Danger

11. A Peoples' Witness beyond Politics

12. Democratic Space

13. On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Politics for Life

Notes

Index

Additional information

CIN0253210763VG
9780253210760
0253210763
On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Ethics and Politics by Charles E. Scott
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Indiana University Press
1996-10-22
216
N/A
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