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Ethics and Self-Cultivation: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

by Matthew Dennis, Sander Werkhoven

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.4 cm

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The aim of Ethics and Self-Cultivation is to establish and explore a new 'cultivation of the self' strand within contemporary moral philosophy. Although the revival of virtue ethics has helped reintroduce the eudaimonic tradition into mainstream philosophical debates, it has by and large been a revival of Aristotelian ethics combined with a modern preoccupation with standards for the moral rightness of actions. The essays comprising this volume offer a fresh approach to the eudaimonic tradition: instead of conditions for rightness of actions, it focuses on conceptions of human life that are best for the one living it. The first section of essays looks at the Hellenistic schools and the way they influenced modern thinkers like Spinoza, Kant, Nietzsche, Hadot, and Foucault in their thinking about self-cultivation. The second section offers contemporary perspectives on ethical self-cultivation by drawing on work in moral psychology, epistemology of self-knowledge, philosophy of mind, and meta-ethics.
Ethics and Self-Cultivation: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives and Ethics and Self-Cultivation: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Ethics and Self-Cultivation: Historical and Contemporary PerspectivesEthics and Self-Cultivation: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
  • Author

    Matthew Dennis

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Routledge

  • Published

    September 2020

  • Weight

    336g

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.4 cm

  • ISBN

    9780367666965

  • ISBN-10

    0367666960

  • Eden Code

    5296464

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