From enlightenment to receptivity : rethinking our values / Michael Slote.

By:

Slote, Michael, 1941-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 245 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780199970711
0199970718
0199333300
9780199333301

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: From enlightenment to receptivity.DDC classification:

170 23

LOC classification:

BJ1475 .S595 2013eb

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Contents:

Beyond enlightenment -- Empathy and objectivity -- Epistemology and emotion -- -- Caring and enlightenment -- How important is morality? -- Impossibility of perfection -- New picture -- Receptivity -- Receptivity to life -- Green thinking -- From enlightenment to receptivity -- Virtue of receptivity.

Summary: This text argues that Western philosophy on the whole has overemphasized rational control and autonomy at the expense of the important countervailing value and virtue of receptivity. Recently the ideas of caring and empathy have received a great deal of philosophical and public attention, but both these notions rest on the deeper and broader value of receptivity, and in this book, Slote seeks to show that we need to focus more on receptivity if we are to attain a more balanced sense and understanding of what is important to us.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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This text argues that Western philosophy on the whole has overemphasized rational control and autonomy at the expense of the important countervailing value and virtue of receptivity. Recently the ideas of caring and empathy have received a great deal of philosophical and public attention, but both these notions rest on the deeper and broader value of receptivity, and in this book, Slote seeks to show that we need to focus more on receptivity if we are to attain a more balanced sense and understanding of what is important to us.

English.

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