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Title: Moral Disquiet and Human Life
Condition: New
Author: Monique Canto-Sperber
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN-10: 0691127360
Format: Hardback
Translator: Silvia Pavel
Contributor: Silvia Pavel (Translated by)
EAN: 9780691127361
ISBN: 9780691127361
Release Date: 07/21/2008
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 235mm
Item Length: 152mm
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Description: Attempting to steer moral philosophy away from abstract theorizing, Moral Disquiet and Human Life argues that moral philosophy should be a practical, rational, and argumentative engagement with reality, and that moral reflection should have direct effects on our lives and the world in which we live. Illustrating her discussion with vivid examples from literature, music, drama, and current events, the noted French philosopher Monique Canto-Sperber resumes the most ancient pursuit of philosophy: the examination of human life itself. What did Socrates mean when he said that the unexamined life is not worth living? How can reflecting on one\'s existence incorporate human singularity, the contingency of events, the certainty of death, the presence of the past, or the irreversibility of time? Carefully analyzing and proposing answers to such questions, Moral Disquiet and Human Life eloquently calls for a redefinition of the task of moral philosophy and of its limits.
Item Weight: 454g
Series: New French Thought Series
Release Year: 2008
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