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Beyond Ethics To Post-Ethics - A Preface to a New Theory of Morality and Immorality (Paperback, New)
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Beyond Ethics To Post-Ethics - A Preface to a New Theory of Morality and Immorality (Paperback, New)
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Is moral goodness really so desirable in the way that its
proponents through the ages would like us to believe? For instance,
in our time, there is even this latest version of the popular moral
idea shared by many, when Dalai Lama suggested that " w]e need
these human values of compassion and affection]....Even without
religion, ...we have the capacity to promote these things." (WK
2009) The naivety of this popular moral idea can be contrasted with
an opposing (critical) idea advocated not long ago by Sigmund Freud
(1966), who once wrote that "men are not gentle creatures who want
to be loved, and who at the most can defend themselves if they are
attacked; they are, on the contrary, creatures among whose
instinctual endowments is to be reckoned a powerful share of
aggressiveness. As a result, their neighbor is for them...someone
who tempts them to satisfy their aggressiveness on him, to exploit
his capacity for work without compensation, to use him sexually
without his consent, to seize his possessions, to humiliate him, to
cause him pain, to torture and to kill him. Homo homini lupus."
Contrary to the two opposing sides of this battle for the high
moral ground, morality and immorality are neither possible nor
desirable to the extent that their respective ideologues would like
us to believe. But one should not misunderstand this challenge as a
suggestion that ethics is a worthless field of study, or that other
fields of study (related to ethics) like political philosophy,
moral psychology, social studies, theology, or even international
relations should be dismissed. Needless to stress, neither of these
two extreme views is reasonable either. Instead, this book provides
an alternative (better) way to understand the nature of ethics,
especially in relation to morality and immorality-while learning
from different approaches in the literature but without favoring
any one of them (nor integrating them, since they are not
necessarily compatible with each other). This book offers a new
theory to transcend the existing approaches in the literature on
ethics in a way not thought of before. This seminal project is to
fundamentally alter the way that we think about ethics, from the
combined perspectives of the mind, nature, society, and culture,
with enormous implications for the human future and what I
originally called its "post-human" fate.
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