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Beyond Humanism - The Flourishing of Life, Self and Other (Hardcover, New)
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Beyond Humanism - The Flourishing of Life, Self and Other (Hardcover, New)
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Beyond Humanism seeks to set humanism on a new footing.
Enlightenment ideals of an autonomous, disconnected, and rational
self are unrealistic. Together with Romantic dreams of authenticity
and expression of the self it has had adverse effects, contributing
to egotism and narcissism. Instead, this book employs a philosophy
oriented towards the relationship between self and other. The book
gives a critical discussion of religion, the Enlightenment and
Romanticism. It seeks a way between Nietzsche's philosophy of the
flourishing of life and Levinas's philosophy of the other. It
argues that the self requires the other for its flourishing. The
other is needed for the development of the self, for freedom also
from the delusions and prejudices of the self, for transcendence of
the self, for learning and innovation, for making sense in
language, and for a life that aims not at a hereafter for the self
but a hereafter that benefits others after one's death.
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