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The Ethics of Courage - Volume 2: From Early Modernity to the Global Age (1st ed. 2023)
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The Ethics of Courage - Volume 2: From Early Modernity to the Global Age (1st ed. 2023)
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This two-volume work examines far-reaching debates on the concept
of courage from Greek antiquity to the Christian and mediaeval
periods, as well as the modern era. Volume 1 explains how competing
accounts of epistêmê, rational wisdom, and truth dominated
classical antiquity. Early Christian and mediaeval thinkers, in
contrast, favoured fortitude founded on faith and fear of God over
philosophical reasoning left to its own devices. Volume 2 turns to
theories of courage from the early modern period to the present. It
shows how the twin laws of polis and physis are at the heart of
post-medieval thought. Courage is found at the crossroads of love
and dread, freedom and fate, happiness and suffering, as well as
power and submission to the ruling order. The later influence of
evolutionism, existentialism, and the social and natural sciences
on moral philosophy is also addressed at some length. The
protection of people's best interests, the passions and powers of
the human will, and the rule of active energy in all aspects of
life supplant courage formerly viewed through the lens of reason or
faith, or a combination of the two. These new ideas, paradoxically,
herald the end of the ethics of courage. They also undermine the
courage of ethical thinking. Courage is no longer an end in itself,
nor is it a means to happiness "at the end." Regardless of what
Gandhi, Tillich, and Foucault have to say about the topic, late
modernity and the global age witness a marked loss of interest in
courage as an idea worthy of conceptual investigation. Debates
about the moral implications of courage give way to the value-free
science of resilience, which studies how people can recover from
past trauma and find wellness, primarily in the realm of
physis.Â
General
Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan
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Country of origin: |
Switzerland |
Release date: |
October 2023 |
First published: |
2023 |
Authors: |
Jacques M. Chevalier
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Dimensions: |
210 x 148mm (L x W) |
Edition: |
1st ed. 2023 |
ISBN-13: |
978-3-03-132742-1 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
3-03-132742-X |
Barcode: |
9783031327421 |
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