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The correlation between person and environment has long been a
central focus of phenomenological analysis. While phenomenology is
usually understood as a descriptive discipline showing how
essential features of the human encounter with things and people in
the world are articulated, phenomenology is also based on ethical
concerns. Husserl himself, the founder of the movement, gave
several lecture courses on ethics. This volume focuses on one trend
in ethics-virtue ethics-and its connection to phenomenology. The
essays explore how phenomenology contributes to this field of
ethics and clarifies some of its central issues, such as
flourishing and good character traits. The volume initiates a
conversation with virtue ethicists that is underrepresented in the
current literature. Phenomenology and Virtue Ethics offers
contributions from prominent phenomenologists who explore the
following issues: how phenomenology is connected to the ancient
Greek or Christian virtue tradition, how phenomenology and its
foundational thinkers are oriented toward virtue ethics, and how
phenomenology is itself a virtue discipline. The focus on
phenomenology and virtue ethics in a single volume is the first of
its kind.
Bringing together leading scholars from across the world, this is a
comprehensive survey of the latest phenomenological research into
the perennial philosophical problem of truth. Starting with an
historical introduction chronicling the variations on truth at play
in the Phenomenological tradition, the book explores how Husserls
methodology equips us with the tools to thoroughly explore notions
of truth, reality and knowledge. From these foundations, the book
goes on to explore and extend the range of approaches that
contemporary phenomenological research opens up in the face of the
most profound ontological and epistemological questions raised by
the tradition. In the final section, the authors go further still
and explore how phenomenology relates to other variations on truth
offered up by hermeneutic, deconstructive and narrative
approaches.Across the 12 essays collected in this volume,
Variations on Truth explores and maps a comprehensive and rigorous
alternative to mainstream analytic discussions of truth, reality
and understanding.
Kevin Hermberg's book fills an important gap in previous Husserl
scholarship by focusing on intersubjectivity and empathy (i.e., the
experience of others as other subjects) and by addressing the
related issues of validity, the degrees of evidence with which
something can be experienced, and the different senses of
'objective' in Husserl's texts. Despite accusations by commentators
that Husserl's is a solipsistic philosophy and that the
epistemologies in Husserl's late and early works are contradictory,
Hermberg shows that empathy, and thus other subjects, are related
to one's knowledge on the view offered in each of Husserl's
Introductions to Phenomenology. Empathy is significantly related to
knowledge in at least two ways, and Husserl's epistemology might,
consequently, be called a social epistemology: (a) empathy helps to
give evidence for validity and thus to solidify one's knowledge,
and (b) it helps to broaden one's knowledge by giving access to
what others have known. These roles of empathy are not at odds with
one another; rather, both are at play in each of the Introductions
(if even only implicitly) and, given his position in the earlier
work, Husserl needed to expand the role of empathy as he did. Such
a reliance on empathy, however, calls into question whether
Husserl's is a transcendental philosophy in the sense Husserl
claimed.
Bringing together leading scholars from across the world, this is a
comprehensive survey of the latest phenomenological research into
the perennial philosophical problem of 'truth'. Starting with an
historical introduction chronicling the variations on truth at play
in the Phenomenological tradition, the book explores how Husserl's
methodology equips us with the tools to thoroughly explore notions
of truth, reality and knowledge. From these foundations, the book
goes on to explore and extend the range of approaches that
contemporary phenomenological research opens up in the face of the
most profound ontological and epistemological questions raised by
the tradition. In the final section, the authors go further still
and explore how phenomenology relates to other variations on truth
offered up by hermeneutic, deconstructive and narrative approaches.
Across the 12 essays collected in this volume, Variations on Truth
explores and maps a comprehensive and rigorous alternative to
mainstream analytic discussions of truth, reality and
understanding.
The correlation between person and environment has long been a
central focus of phenomenological analysis. While phenomenology is
usually understood as a descriptive discipline showing how
essential features of the human encounter with things and people in
the world are articulated, phenomenology is also based on ethical
concerns. Husserl himself, the founder of the movement, gave
several lecture courses on ethics. This volume focuses on one trend
in ethics-virtue ethics-and its connection to phenomenology. The
essays explore how phenomenology contributes to this field of
ethics and clarifies some of its central issues, such as
flourishing and good character traits. The volume initiates a
conversation with virtue ethicists that is underrepresented in the
current literature. Phenomenology and Virtue Ethics offers
contributions from prominent phenomenologists who explore the
following issues: how phenomenology is connected to the ancient
Greek or Christian virtue tradition, how phenomenology and its
foundational thinkers are oriented toward virtue ethics, and how
phenomenology is itself a virtue discipline. The focus on
phenomenology and virtue ethics in a single volume is the first of
its kind.
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