Name: Moral Tradition and Individuality (en Inglés)
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Author: John Kekes

portada Moral Tradition and Individuality (en Inglés)

Moral Tradition and Individuality (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Princeton University Press

Autor

John Kekes

Año

1991

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

260

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

0691023484

ISBN13

9780691023489

Categorías

Filosofía ética y moral

Moral Tradition and Individuality (en Inglés)

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In this study, John Kekes develops the view that good lives depend on maintaining a balance between one's moral tradition and individuality. Our moral tradition provides the forms of good lives and the permissible ways of trying to achieve them. But to do so, the author argues, we must grow in self-knowledge and self-control to make our characters suitable for realizing our aspirations. In addressing general readers as well as scholars, Kekes makes these philosophical views concrete by drawing on a rich variety of literary sources, including, among others, the works of Sophocles, Henry James, Tolstoy, and Edith Wharton. The first half of the work concentrates on social morality, establishing the conditions all good lives must meet. The second discusses personal morality, the sphere of individuality. Its development enables us to discover what is important to us and how we can fit our personal aspirations into the forms of life our moral tradition provides. Kekes's argument derives its inspiration from Aristotle's objectivism, Hume's emphasis on custom and feeling, and Mill's concentration on individuals and their experiments in living. This book is a nontechnical yet closely reasoned attempt to provide a contemporary answer to the age-old question of how to live well.