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Originally published in 1955, this book covers most of the problems
of moral philosophy but concentrates on two of them: the criterion
of right action and the nature of moral judgment. Rejecting
Utilitarianism, it shows how principles of moral obligation may be
unified under Kant's formula of treating people as
ends-in-themselves. This formula is interpreted in terms of a new,
naturalistic theory of moral obligation. Throughout the book the
social reference of ethics is emphasized and moral obligation is
discussed in relation to rights, justice, liberty and equality.
Originally published in 1955, this book covers most of the problems
of moral philosophy but concentrates on two of them: the criterion
of right action and the nature of moral judgment. Rejecting
Utilitarianism, it shows how principles of moral obligation may be
unified under Kant's formula of treating people as
ends-in-themselves. This formula is interpreted in terms of a new,
naturalistic theory of moral obligation. Throughout the book the
social reference of ethics is emphasized and moral obligation is
discussed in relation to rights, justice, liberty and equality.
Edinburgh is a city whose history is written on its face. The Old
Town on its crowded rock, sloping down from the Castle to
Holyroodhouse, has not significantly changed its atmosphere since
the turbulent fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, when riots,
processions, or public executions jammed the High Street. And the
very different era that followed the bloody religious wars of the
seventeenth century is epitomized by the elegant streets and
squares of the New Town - the eighteenth-century Enlightenment
whose writers, philosophers and lawyers made Edinburgh famous. This
anthology of extracts from letters, memoirs, diaries, novels and
biographies of interesting visitors and inhabitants, including the
writings of Scott, Boswell, Cockburn, John Knox and many others,
recreates for today's visitors the drama, the history, and the life
of the city in buildings and places that can still be visited. The
daring Scottish recapture of the Castle from the English in 1313;
the confrontation between Calvinist John Knox and Catholic Mary
Queen of Scots in Holyroodhouse; an eye-witness account of the
execution of Montrose at the Mercat Cross in 1650; reeking
slop-pails in the wynds and polite manners in the ballrooms. . .
This is a new release of the original 1956 edition.
This is a new release of the original 1956 edition.
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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the
original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as
marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe
this work is culturally important, we have made it available as
part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting
the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions
that are true to the original work.
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Boswell's Life of Johnson is established as one of the foremost
literary biographies in the English language. This 1991 collection
of essays, commemorating its bicentenary, investigates Boswell's
achievements and limitations in both literary and personal
contexts, and goes beyond the Life to examine the full range of
Boswell's writings and interests (in legal, social, theological,
political and linguistic fields). Drawing Boswell out of Johnson's
shadow, the volume places him in a wider context, juxtaposing
Boswell with other contemporaries and compatriots in the Scottish
enlightenment, such as Hume, Robertson and Blair. In addition it
investigates some of the critical and theoretical questions
surrounding the notion of biographical representation in the Life
itself. Boswell emerges as a writer engaged throughout his literary
career in constructing a self or series of selves out of his
divided Scottish identity. This collection combines archival
research with fresh critical perspectives and constitutes a timely
review of Boswell's status in eighteenth-century literary studies.
Boswell's Life of Johnson is established as one of the foremost
literary biographies in the English language. This 1991 collection
of essays, commemorating its bicentenary, investigates Boswell's
achievements and limitations in both literary and personal
contexts, and goes beyond the Life to examine the full range of
Boswell's writings and interests (in legal, social, theological,
political and linguistic fields). Drawing Boswell out of Johnson's
shadow, the volume places him in a wider context, juxtaposing
Boswell with other contemporaries and compatriots in the Scottish
enlightenment, such as Hume, Robertson and Blair. In addition it
investigates some of the critical and theoretical questions
surrounding the notion of biographical representation in the Life
itself. Boswell emerges as a writer engaged throughout his literary
career in constructing a self or series of selves out of his
divided Scottish identity. This collection combines archival
research with fresh critical perspectives and constitutes a timely
review of Boswell's status in eighteenth-century literary studies.
A work by an eminent critic which addresses itself to values in
literature, and attempts to answer the simple and elusive question,
"Why read a work of imaginative literature?"
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Milton (Paperback)
David Daiches; As told by Eric Foner
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"Why do we spend time reading and discussing books which tell of
events which never in fact occurred?" The question is elementary
– and yet, as David Daiches suggests in this provocative study,
it is the elementary questions that are never answered. Although
literary criticism today is more concerned with technique than with
the basic question of value, the question of value underlies all
the others. Professor Daiches therefore directs this book to the
search for the basic function and purpose of imaginative prose and
poetry. A Study of Literature is not, however, an obscure book of
literary theory; it contains abundant and pungent examples and
critical analyses – of prose fiction, of modern writing, and of
the nature of poetry. "It's main purpose," as Professor Daiches
says, "is to help the reader of works of imaginative literature to
see what he is reading, to understand just what it is that he gets
from different kinds of reading, and to discriminate between those
different kinds."
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