Shaping a Modern Ethics by Benjamin Bennett (.ePUB)
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Shaping a Modern Ethics: The Humanist Legacy from Nietzsche to Feminism by Benjamin Bennett
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Overview: Is there any such thing as a single ethical system to which all human beings could conceivably subscribe?
The short answer is no; and most people, being tolerant, would probably agree with this answer. Yet most people, precisely in being tolerant, also subscribe to an idea of “human rights” which presupposes just such a universal ethics.
This basic question of ethics is similarly treacherous when approached on a higher technical level. Specialists have long recognized that Kant’s categorical imperative is neither theoretically nor practically tenable. But efforts to revive and repair the Kantian project-including especially the monumental work of Jürgen Habermas-have all themselves been theoretically questionable, while developing a complexity that makes them impractical.
Must we then simply do without ethics in the sense of a universal ethical method?
Genre: Non-Fiction > Faith, Beliefs & Philosophy
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