The Ethics of Courage Volume 2: From Early Modernity to the Global Age
This two-volume work examines far-reaching debates on the concept of courage from Greek antiquity to the Christian and mediaeval periods, as well as the modern era. Volume 1 explains how competing accounts of epistêmê, rational wisdom, and truth dominated classical antiquity. Early Christian and med...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2023, 2023
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1 Truth, power, and life
- Chapter 2 The body and the body politic
- Chapter 3 Self-interest and the sovereign
- Chapter 4 Justice, the laws of nature, and God
- Chapter 5 Moral sympathy and higher passions
- Chapter 6 The natural and rational duty to God and country
- Chapter 7 Michel de Montaigne and the vanity of reason
- Chapter 8 Language, self-consciousness, and learning experiences
- Chapter 9 Reasons examined in good conscience
- Chapter 10 The evolution of mind, species, and society
- Chapter 11 Variations in evolutionary ethics
- Chapter 12 Utilitarianism and relativism with a bias
- Chapter 13 Emerson’s heroes of truth
- Chapter 14 The courage of despair
- Chapter 15 Nietzsche’s animal foes and friends
- Chapter 16 The will to power
- Chapter 17 Thus spoke Nietzsche
- Chapter 18 Courage in the body and the sociable self
- Chapter 19 The courage of disobedience
- Chapter 20 Paul Tillich and the courage to be
- Chapter 21 Throwing courage to the dogs
- Chapter 22 Risk and resilience
- Chapter 23 Courage in the global age