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This month, Bloomsbury Collections features titles from Philosophy, specifically in Ethics and Moral Philosophy. Explore the titles below to learn how different philosophers and schools of thought approach ethics and morality.
Leonard Harris is a leading figure in African-American and liberatory thought. His writings on honor, insurrectionist ethics, tradition, and his work on Alain Locke have established him as a leading figure in critical philosophy. His timely and urgent responses to structural racism and structural violence mark him out as a bold cultural commentator and a deft theoretician.
Read this essay by Harris from A Philosophy of Struggle: The Leonard Harris Reader: Philosophia Nata Ex Conatu: “Insurrectionist Ethics: Advocacy, Moral Psychology, and Pragmatism” (2002) to learn more about Harris’ thoughts on ethics.
Hannah Arendt’s best-known ethical concepts are the notion of the banality of evil and the link she posits between thoughtlessness and evil, both inspired by her study of Adolf Eichmann. Hannah Arendt’s Ethics draws out the most salient aspects of Arendt’s ethics, provides a critical review of the more philosophically problematic elements, and places Arendt’s work in this area in a broader moral philosophy context, examining the issues in moral philosophy.
In the introduction, learn some context around Arendt’s life and theories and read about the ethical dimension in the her politics and thought.
In recent years there has been an increase in interest in Kant’s philosophical thought, but there remains little consensus on exactly how his ideas should be organized and understood. In Practical Kantian Ethics: A Commonsense Account of Moral Life, Donald Wilson reinterprets Kant’s moral theory through his later practical works offering a new “inner freedom” account informing obscure aspects of Kant’s formal moral philosophy.
Read this chapter to learn more about Kant’s Doctrine of Right and how it should be understood and the Doctrine of Right in the context of human nature.
Rather than having formulated an ethical theory, Agamben’s ethical statements are scattered throughout his oeuvre, leaving it to the reader to attempt a montage. Moreover, these ethical fragments vary so widely that it isn’t immediately certain that they allow for a coherent ethical theory. Agamben’s Ethics of the Happy Life: Beyond Nihilism and Morality presents a careful evaluation of Agamben’s overlooked contribution to ethics.
In this chapter, the author examines Agamben’s treatment of ethics in his work The Coming Community.
How can ancient Chinese philosophy contribute to Western discussions of moral philosophy? Covering the characteristics and significance of the Confucian ethical tradition, Confucian Ethics in Western Discourse introduces the main concepts, discusses differing perspectives of moral dilemmas and closely examines whether Confucian ethics should be considered as virtue ethics in the Western tradition.
Read this chapter for an introduction to the concept of morality in Confucian Ethics.
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