The Nature of Philosophical Problems (Inbunden)
avJohn Kekes
ISBN: 9780198712756 - UTGIVEN: 2014-05We 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 c[...]
The Human Condition (Häftad)
avJohn Kekes
ISBN: 9780199687480 - UTGIVEN: 2013-11The Human Condition is a response to the growing disenchantment in the Western world with contemporary life. John Kekes provides rationally justified answers to questions about the meaning of life, the basis of morality, the contingencies of human lives, the prevalence of evil, the nature and extent[...]
How Should We Live? (Inbunden)
avJohn Kekes
ISBN: 9780226155654 - UTGIVEN: 2014-09What is your highest ideal? What code do you live by? We all know that these differ from person to person. Nonetheless philosophers have long 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[...]
Facing Evil (Häftad)
avJohn Kekes
ISBN: 9780691020952 - UTGIVEN: 1993-02Arguing 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 c[...]
