From Enlightenment to Receptivity

Rethinking Our Values

Autor: Michael Slote

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This new book by Michael Slote argues that Western philosophy on the whole has overemphasized ration...

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Autor

Michael Slote

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engleză

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Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2013

Pagini

272

EAN

9780199970704

ISBN

019997070X

Enbook ID

04537087

Editura

Oxford University Press Inc

Greutate

394

Dimensiuni

147 x 215 x 25

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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.

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