The Risk of Being attempts to forge a new language and a new way
of reasoning about what it is like to be good and bad by focusing
on existential phenomena that reveal what it means to be good and
bad. It is thus a work that cannot be located among or compared to
the more traditional theories of ethics or morality. What
distinguishes this inquiry is not only the use of existential
themes, such as outrage, temptation, and corruption, but the
reasoning itself in an existential critique, which allows us to
consider how and what we think as well as feel about being good and
bad--the logos and pathos of these existential phenomena--and thus
provides an access to the question about the reality of good and
bad.
Recognizing that we have done wrong may induce frustrated
responses, such as, "How could I have been so stupid?" or "Why was
I so weak? " or even, "What has become of me? " These reactions,
Gelven argues, point to folly, weakness, and corruption as ways of
being bad, which can then be countered in phenomena such as
judgment, courage, and integrity of character, as ways of being
good. The analyses of these phenomena can reveal a great deal of
existential understanding that no mere ethical or moral approach
can offer. The emphasis is on understanding that "good" and "bad"
are not mere axiological terms, but can refer to ways of
existing.
By careful analysis, these ways can be forced to reveal the
truth about goodness and badness. As Gelven's argument proceeds to
show not only what it is "like" to be good and bad, but also what
the reality of being good and bad must be, he offers new and often
unorthodox insights into one of the great philosophical issues
challenging the thinking mind.
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