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A World without Why (Paperback)
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Wishful thinking is a deeply ingrained human trait that has had a
long-term distorting effect on ethical thinking. Many influential
ethical views depend on the optimistic assumption that, despite
appearances to the contrary, the human and natural world in which
we live could, eventually, be made to make sense to us. In A World
without Why, Raymond Geuss challenges this assumption. The essays
in this collection--several of which are published here for the
first time--explore the genesis and historical development of this
optimistic configuration in ethical thought and the ways in which
it has shown itself to be unfounded and misguided. Discussions of
Greco-Roman antiquity and of the philosophies of Socrates, Plato,
Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, and Adorno play a central role in many of
these essays. Geuss also ranges over such topics as the concepts of
intelligibility, authority, democracy, and criticism; the role of
lying in politics; architecture; the place of theology in ethics;
tragedy and comedy; and the struggle between realism and our search
for meaning. Characterized by Geuss's wide-ranging interests in
literature, philosophy, and history, and by his political
commitment and trenchant style, A World without Why raises
fundamental questions about the viability not just of specific
ethical concepts and theses, but of our most basic assumptions
about what ethics could and must be.
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