Morality, self-knowledge, and human suffering : an essay on the loss of confidence in the world / Josep E. Corbí
"In this wholly original study, Josep Corbi asks how one should relate to a certain kind of human suffering, namely, the harm that people cause one another. Relying upon real life examples of human suffering--including torture, genocide, and warfare--as opposed to thought experiments, Corbi pro...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2012.
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| Series: | Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy ;
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Thought experiments, justice and character
- 2. The loss of confidence in the world
- 3. The real and the imaginary in the soldier's experience
- 4. The reality of moral features
- 5. Moral principles and the divided conception of the self
- 6. Self-knowledge in the light of a dance
- 7. Conclusion.