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Ethics, Value, and Reality (Hardcover)
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Ethics, Value, and Reality (Hardcover)
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Ethics, Value, and Reality is a collection of essays written after
Kolnai settled in England in 1955. These essays from Kolnai's
mature years sit atop a remarkable gestation of moral and political
thinking. At the heart of his thought is the special role of
privilege in a good social order. Kolnai relies heavily on the work
of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century value theorists
such as Alexius Meinong, Nicolai Hartmann, and Max Scheler. He
blends this continental tradition of ethics with British
intuitionism and Scottish Enlightenment articulations. For Kolnai,
ethical life cannot be adequately understood except by reference to
moral emphasis, and thus, Kolnai can be thought of as a liberal
conservative. He acknowledges myriad values, moral and non-moral,
and accepts that all can have some claim upon us. Low values as
much as high values have a legitimate claim. His is a tolerant
conservatism though not for a moment does he forgo the necessity of
judgment: a readily graspable hierarchy keeps the respective
demands of values in proportion. Kolnai welcomes the call to
seriousness, which is the hallmark of existentialism. The ground of
Kolnai's thought is the idea of emotion as cognitive. He saw the
typical analytical philosopher's fascination with simplicity of
explanation not only thoroughly refuted by the gains in
understanding wrought by phenomenological method, with its
deference to the richness of phenomena, but sensed in the monistic
inclination he dreaded a harbinger of totalitarianism. Never
denying his emotionalism, he nonetheless made his points well
enough by adopting an analytical approach to philosophy and ethics.
This is a major work crossing moral and political philosophy.
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