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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450205003321

Titolo

Exploring the world of human practice [[electronic resource] ] : readings in and about the philosophy of Aurel Kolnai / / edited by Zoltán Balázs and Francis Dunlop

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Budapest ; ; New York, : Central European University Press, 2005

ISBN

978-615-5211-10-2

978-6-15521-110-2

9786155211102

615-5211-10-8

1-281-37656-6

9786611376567

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (356 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KolnaiAurel

BalázsZoltán

DunlopFrancis

Disciplina

192

Soggetti

Philosophy, Modern - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; About the Contents of This Volume; Introduction ; What Is Politics About?; A Note on the Meaning of Right and Wrong; Erroneous Conscience; Are There Degrees of Ethical Universality?; The Concept of Practical Error; Actions and Inactions; Agency and Freedom; The Indispensability of Philosophy; Kolnai's Mature Political Philosophy; The Ethical Theories of Aurel Kolnai; The Democratic Subversion of Political Liberty and Participation; Liberty, Equality, Nobility: Aurel Kolnai and the Moral Foundations of Democracy

Aurel Kolnai: A Political Philosopher Confronts the Scourge of Our EpochAurel Kolnai and Utopia; Aims in Games and Moral Purposes; Kolnai and Kant on (Human) Dignity; Kolnai's Dissertation Der ethische Wert und die Wirklichkeit: A "Completion" of Scheler's Value-Ethics; The Nature and Scope of Ordinary Morality: Some Reflections in the Spirit of Aurel Kolnai; Is Love Intertwined with Hatred?; Kolnai's Idea of



Emotional Presentation; Aurel Kolnai's "Disgust": A Source in the Art and Writing of Salvador Dalí; About the Contributors to This Volume; INDEXES