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The Human Condition (Hardcover)
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The Human Condition (Hardcover)
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The Human Condition is a response to the growing disenchantment in
the Western world with contemporary life. John Kekes provides
rationally justified answers to questions about the meaning of
life, the basis of morality, the contingencies of human lives, the
prevalence of evil, the nature and extent of human responsibility,
and the sources of values we prize. He offers a realistic view of
the human condition that rejects both facile optimism and gloomy
pessimism; acknowledges that we are vulnerable to contingencies we
cannot fully control; defends a humanistic understanding of our
condition; recognizes that the values worth pursuing are plural,
often conflicting, and that there are many reasonable conceptions
of well-being. Kekes emphasizes the importance of facing the fact
that man's inhumanity to man is widespread. He rejects as
simple-minded both the view that human nature is basically good and
that it is basically bad, and argues that our well-being depends on
coping with the complex truth that human nature is basically
complicated. Finally, Kekes argues that the scheme of things is
indifferent to our fortunes and that we can rely only on our own
resources to make what we can of our lives.
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