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Attending: An Ethical Art: McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas, cartea 82

Autor Warren Heiti
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 iul 2021
Attending – patient contemplation focused on a particular being – is a central ethical activity that has not been recognized by any of the main moral systems in the European philosophical tradition. That tradition has imagined that the moral agent is primarily a problem solver and world changer when what might be needed most is a witness. Moral theory has been agonized by dualism – motivation is analyzed into beliefs and desires, descriptions of facts and dissatisfactions with them, while action is represented as an effort to lessen dissatisfaction by altering the empirical world. In Attending Warren Heiti traces an alternative genealogy of ethics, drawing from the Platonism recovered by Simone Weil and developed in the work of Iris Murdoch, John McDowell, and Jan Zwicky. According to Weil, virtue is knowledge, knowledge is embodied, and the knower is nested in an ecosystem of relationships. Instead of analyzing and solving theoretical problems, Heiti aims to clarify the terrain by setting up objects of attention from more than one discipline, including not only philosophy but also literature, psychology, film, and visual art. The traditional picture captures one important type of ethical activity: faced with a moral problem, one looks to a general rule to furnish the solution. But not all problems conform to this model. Heiti offers an alternative: to see what is needed, one attends to the particular being.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780228006138
ISBN-10: 0228006139
Pagini: 488
Ilustrații: 1 photo, 3 diagrams, 1 table
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: McGill-Queen's University Press
Colecția McGill-Queen's University Press
Seria McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas


Recenzii

“Attending is a superb work in moral philosophy. It is complex, generous, difficult, expansive, and at times genuinely revelatory. It is also very demanding, in the best possible sense. A truly remarkable book.” Sarah Clift, University of King's College and author of Committing the Future to Memory: History, Experience, Trauma

“Attending addresses a significant gap in the literature on attention. The way Heiti places important twentieth-century authors in conversation with each other is original and well done. This is a very rich and beautiful book.” Sophie Bourgault, University of Ottawa and co-editor of Simone Weil, Beyond Ideology?

Notă biografică

Warren Heiti is professor of philosophy and liberal studies at Vancouver Island University.

Descriere

Moral theory has been agonized by dualism – motivation is analyzed into beliefs and desires, descriptions of facts and dissatisfactions with them, while action is represented as an effort to lessen dissatisfaction by altering the empirical world. In Attending Warren Heiti traces an alternative genealogy of ethics, drawing from the Platonism recovered by Simone Weil and developed in the work of Iris Murdoch, John McDowell, and Jan Zwicky.