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From Enlightenment to Receptivity Rethinking Our Values

Slote Michael
Innbundet / 2013 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780199970704
Publisert
2013
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press Inc
Vekt
400 gr
Høyde
147 mm
Bredde
213 mm
Dybde
31 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
272

Forfatter
Slote Michael

Biographical note

Michael Slote is UST Professor of Ethics at the University of Miami. A member of the Royal Irish Academy and former Tanner lecturer, his work has mainly been focused on ethics, political philosophy, moral psychology, and, most recently, the philosophy of education.

From Enlightenment to Receptivity Rethinking Our Values

Slote Michael
Innbundet / 2013 / Engelsk
Slote Michael
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In From Enlightenment to Receptivity Slote provides a nice point of entry both into themes from his earlier work and into a number of distinct subfields of philosophy. The book covers a range of topics in normative ethics, metaethics, epistemology, philosophy of religion, feminist philosophy, political philosophy, and environmental philosophy. And it is filled with interesting and provocative ideas. As such, it could be an enjoyable book to teach to an introductory undergraduate class for the introductory or general reader, the book has much to recommend it.

Glen Pettigrove, Mind

This volume by Slote...is easily one of the best books on the importance of people's feelings to their moral judgments, and it deserves to be read widely. This reviewer could not put it down. Slote...writes simply and elegantly. His style makes the book accessible and inviting to all readers, even those who have no background in ethics.... The book constitutes a substantial contribution to contemporary moral thought. It will appeal to anyone interested in the role emotions play in ordinary decisions about how one lives one's life.... Highly recommended.

G.S. Bagwell, CHOICE

Those who, like me, have doubts about dominant contemporary ethical theories (particularly Kantian ones), and/or sympathies for care ethics and sentimentalism more widely, will find themselves quite receptive to the message and arguments of this book. The idea of receptivity is, I think, a welcome addition to the conversation, and it furthers and unifies worries that have been voiced piecemeal over the last few decades. I am less confident that the book will convert rationalists, because it is most successful where it paints its picture in broad strokes and there are many details yet to be filled in. But I hope that its arguments do help to prompt people to fill in those details and push the landscape of contemporary moral philosophy further toward greater recognition of the role that empathy and receptivity play in our daily lives and our philosophical thinking.

Erica Lucast Stonestreet, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Online

This new book by Michael Slote argues that Western philosophy on the whole has overemphasized rational control and autonomy at the expense of the important countervailing value and virtue of receptivity. Recently the ideas of caring and empathy have received a great deal of philosophical and public attention, but both these notions rest on the deeper and broader value of receptivity, and in From Enlightenment to Receptivity, Slote seeks to show that we need to focus more on receptivity if we are to attain a more balanced sense and understanding of what is important to us. Beginning with a critique of Enlightenment thinking that calls into question its denial of any central role to considerations of emotion and empathy, he goes on to show how a greater emphasis on these factors and on the receptivity that underlies them can give us a more realistic, balanced, and sensitive understanding of our core ethical and epistemological values. This means rejecting post-modernism's blanket rejection of reason and of compelling real values and recognizing, rather, that receptivity should play a major role in how we lead our lives as individuals, in how we relate to nature, in how we acquire knowledge about the world, and in how we relate morally and politically with others.
Les mer
Introduction ; PART I -- BEYOND ENLIGHTENMENT ; Foreword to Part I ; Chapter 1 -- Empathy and Objectivity ; Chapter 2 -- Epistemology and Emotion ; Chapter 3 -- Caring and Enlightenment ; Chapter 4 -- How Important Is Morality? ; Chapter 5 -- The Impossibility of Perfection ; Chapter 6 -- A New Picture ; PART II -- RECEPTIVITY ; Foreword to Part II ; Chapter 7 -- Receptivity to Life ; Chapter 8 -- Green Thinking ; Chapter 9 -- From Enlightenment to Receptivity ; Chapter 10 -- The Virtue of Receptivity ; Conclusion
Les mer
In From Enlightenment to Receptivity Slote provides a nice point of entry both into themes from his earlier work and into a number of distinct subfields of philosophy. The book covers a range of topics in normative ethics, metaethics, epistemology, philosophy of religion, feminist philosophy, political philosophy, and environmental philosophy. And it is filled with interesting and provocative ideas. As such, it could be an enjoyable book to teach to an introductory undergraduate class for the introductory or general reader, the book has much to recommend it.
Les mer
"In From Enlightenment to Receptivity Slote provides a nice point of entry both into themes from his earlier work and into a number of distinct subfields of philosophy. The book covers a range of topics in normative ethics, metaethics, epistemology, philosophy of religion, feminist philosophy, political philosophy, and environmental philosophy. And it is filled with interesting and provocative ideas. As such, it could be an enjoyable book to teach to an introductory undergraduate class... for the introductory or general reader, the book has much to recommend it." --Mind "This volume by Slote...is easily one of the best books on the importance of people's feelings to their moral judgments, and it deserves to be read widely. This reviewer could not put it down. Slote...writes simply and elegantly. His style makes the book accessible and inviting to all readers, even those who have no background in ethics.... The book constitutes a substantial contribution to contemporary moral thought. It will appeal to anyone interested in the role emotions play in ordinary decisions about how one lives one's life.... Highly recommended."--G.S. Bagwell, CHOICE "Those who, like me, have doubts about dominant contemporary ethical theories (particularly Kantian ones), and/or sympathies for care ethics and sentimentalism more widely, will find themselves quite receptive to the message and arguments of this book. The idea of receptivity is, I think, a welcome addition to the conversation, and it furthers and unifies worries that have been voiced piecemeal over the last few decades. I am less confident that the book will convert rationalists, because it is most successful where it paints its picture in broad strokes and there are many details yet to be filled in. But I hope that its arguments do help to prompt people to fill in those details and push the landscape of contemporary moral philosophy further toward greater recognition of the role that empathy and receptivity play in our daily lives and our philosophical thinking." -- Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Les mer
Selling point: This book makes a controversial argument : Western moral and epistemological thought has been very one-sided and has, in particular, neglected the highly important virtue and value of receptivity. Selling point: Slote is a well-respected and well-known moral philosopher.
Les mer
Michael Slote is UST Professor of Ethics at the University of Miami. A member of the Royal Irish Academy and former Tanner lecturer, his work has mainly been focused on ethics, political philosophy, moral psychology, and, most recently, the philosophy of education.
Les mer
Selling point: This book makes a controversial argument : Western moral and epistemological thought has been very one-sided and has, in particular, neglected the highly important virtue and value of receptivity. Selling point: Slote is a well-respected and well-known moral philosopher.
Les mer

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In From Enlightenment to Receptivity Slote provides a nice point of entry both into themes from his earlier work and into a number of distinct subfields of philosophy. The book covers a range of topics in normative ethics, metaethics, epistemology, philosophy of religion, feminist philosophy, political philosophy, and environmental philosophy. And it is filled with interesting and provocative ideas. As such, it could be an enjoyable book to teach to an introductory undergraduate class for the introductory or general reader, the book has much to recommend it.

Glen Pettigrove, Mind

This volume by Slote...is easily one of the best books on the importance of people's feelings to their moral judgments, and it deserves to be read widely. This reviewer could not put it down. Slote...writes simply and elegantly. His style makes the book accessible and inviting to all readers, even those who have no background in ethics.... The book constitutes a substantial contribution to contemporary moral thought. It will appeal to anyone interested in the role emotions play in ordinary decisions about how one lives one's life.... Highly recommended.

G.S. Bagwell, CHOICE

Those who, like me, have doubts about dominant contemporary ethical theories (particularly Kantian ones), and/or sympathies for care ethics and sentimentalism more widely, will find themselves quite receptive to the message and arguments of this book. The idea of receptivity is, I think, a welcome addition to the conversation, and it furthers and unifies worries that have been voiced piecemeal over the last few decades. I am less confident that the book will convert rationalists, because it is most successful where it paints its picture in broad strokes and there are many details yet to be filled in. But I hope that its arguments do help to prompt people to fill in those details and push the landscape of contemporary moral philosophy further toward greater recognition of the role that empathy and receptivity play in our daily lives and our philosophical thinking.

Erica Lucast Stonestreet, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Online

This new book by Michael Slote argues that Western philosophy on the whole has overemphasized rational control and autonomy at the expense of the important countervailing value and virtue of receptivity. Recently the ideas of caring and empathy have received a great deal of philosophical and public attention, but both these notions rest on the deeper and broader value of receptivity, and in From Enlightenment to Receptivity, Slote seeks to show that we need to focus more on receptivity if we are to attain a more balanced sense and understanding of what is important to us. Beginning with a critique of Enlightenment thinking that calls into question its denial of any central role to considerations of emotion and empathy, he goes on to show how a greater emphasis on these factors and on the receptivity that underlies them can give us a more realistic, balanced, and sensitive understanding of our core ethical and epistemological values. This means rejecting post-modernism's blanket rejection of reason and of compelling real values and recognizing, rather, that receptivity should play a major role in how we lead our lives as individuals, in how we relate to nature, in how we acquire knowledge about the world, and in how we relate morally and politically with others.
Les mer
Introduction ; PART I -- BEYOND ENLIGHTENMENT ; Foreword to Part I ; Chapter 1 -- Empathy and Objectivity ; Chapter 2 -- Epistemology and Emotion ; Chapter 3 -- Caring and Enlightenment ; Chapter 4 -- How Important Is Morality? ; Chapter 5 -- The Impossibility of Perfection ; Chapter 6 -- A New Picture ; PART II -- RECEPTIVITY ; Foreword to Part II ; Chapter 7 -- Receptivity to Life ; Chapter 8 -- Green Thinking ; Chapter 9 -- From Enlightenment to Receptivity ; Chapter 10 -- The Virtue of Receptivity ; Conclusion
Les mer
In From Enlightenment to Receptivity Slote provides a nice point of entry both into themes from his earlier work and into a number of distinct subfields of philosophy. The book covers a range of topics in normative ethics, metaethics, epistemology, philosophy of religion, feminist philosophy, political philosophy, and environmental philosophy. And it is filled with interesting and provocative ideas. As such, it could be an enjoyable book to teach to an introductory undergraduate class for the introductory or general reader, the book has much to recommend it.
Les mer
"In From Enlightenment to Receptivity Slote provides a nice point of entry both into themes from his earlier work and into a number of distinct subfields of philosophy. The book covers a range of topics in normative ethics, metaethics, epistemology, philosophy of religion, feminist philosophy, political philosophy, and environmental philosophy. And it is filled with interesting and provocative ideas. As such, it could be an enjoyable book to teach to an introductory undergraduate class... for the introductory or general reader, the book has much to recommend it." --Mind "This volume by Slote...is easily one of the best books on the importance of people's feelings to their moral judgments, and it deserves to be read widely. This reviewer could not put it down. Slote...writes simply and elegantly. His style makes the book accessible and inviting to all readers, even those who have no background in ethics.... The book constitutes a substantial contribution to contemporary moral thought. It will appeal to anyone interested in the role emotions play in ordinary decisions about how one lives one's life.... Highly recommended."--G.S. Bagwell, CHOICE "Those who, like me, have doubts about dominant contemporary ethical theories (particularly Kantian ones), and/or sympathies for care ethics and sentimentalism more widely, will find themselves quite receptive to the message and arguments of this book. The idea of receptivity is, I think, a welcome addition to the conversation, and it furthers and unifies worries that have been voiced piecemeal over the last few decades. I am less confident that the book will convert rationalists, because it is most successful where it paints its picture in broad strokes and there are many details yet to be filled in. But I hope that its arguments do help to prompt people to fill in those details and push the landscape of contemporary moral philosophy further toward greater recognition of the role that empathy and receptivity play in our daily lives and our philosophical thinking." -- Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Les mer
Selling point: This book makes a controversial argument : Western moral and epistemological thought has been very one-sided and has, in particular, neglected the highly important virtue and value of receptivity. Selling point: Slote is a well-respected and well-known moral philosopher.
Les mer
Michael Slote is UST Professor of Ethics at the University of Miami. A member of the Royal Irish Academy and former Tanner lecturer, his work has mainly been focused on ethics, political philosophy, moral psychology, and, most recently, the philosophy of education.
Les mer
Selling point: This book makes a controversial argument : Western moral and epistemological thought has been very one-sided and has, in particular, neglected the highly important virtue and value of receptivity. Selling point: Slote is a well-respected and well-known moral philosopher.
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780199970704
Publisert
2013
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press Inc
Vekt
400 gr
Høyde
147 mm
Bredde
213 mm
Dybde
31 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
272

Forfatter
Slote Michael

Biographical note

Michael Slote is UST Professor of Ethics at the University of Miami. A member of the Royal Irish Academy and former Tanner lecturer, his work has mainly been focused on ethics, political philosophy, moral psychology, and, most recently, the philosophy of education.

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