Modernities : Historie, Beliefs and Values / Peter McCormick.

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Cover -- Titelei -- Impressum -- Inhaltsverzeichnis/Contents -- Preface -- Part One: H I S T O R I E S -- Essay I: Modernities and Histories -- Explanatory and Interpretive Accounts -- Descartes versus Plato, Augustine, and Montaigne -- Two Modernities -- Descartes and Montaigne -- The Disputed Origins of Modernity -- The Frames of Our Histories and Modernities -- Envoi: The Remaining Tension -- Endnotes -- Essay II: Internationalizing Law -- Individual Autonomies and the Community of Values -- The Task of Peace Today -- Limitations and the Capacities of Individuals

The Contingent and Individual Autonomy -- Envoi: The Reflexive Triad -- Endnotes -- Essay III: Nature and Education -- Living According to Nature -- Nature as the Observable Universe -- Nature as the Human Milieu -- Nature as Human Nature -- Envoi: The Nature in Nature -- Endnotes -- Part Two: B E L I E F S -- Essay IV: Modernities and Beliefs -- Subjectivation -- From Procedural to Instrumental Rationality -- The Modern Origins and the Transformation of the Self -- Lockean Belief and Substantive Reason -- Substantive Reason and the Obligations of Belief -- Rationality and Interpretation

Envoi: Reason, Knowledge, and Belief -- Endnotes -- Essay V: Visual Forms in Hogarth's Aesthetics -- Analyzing Beauty -- Disinterestedness -- Aesthetic Attitude, Taste, and Beauty -- Appearance, Reality, and Natural Continua -- Modernity's Realist Backgrounds and Aesthetics -- Envoi: Realisms After Modernity -- Endnotes -- Essay VI: Bolzano's Dark Realism -- Kant and the Subjectivisation of Aesthetics -- Bolzano and the Theory of the Beautiful -- Elucidating Bolzano's Views -- Appraising Bolzano's Aesthetics -- Two Critical Questions -- Envoi: Towards Realistic Phenomenologies -- Endnotes

Part Three: VA LU E S -- Essay VII: Modernity and Values -- Moral Sources -- Moral Frameworks -- Moral Identities -- Moral Articulacy -- The Best Account Principle -- Envoi: Stepping Back -- Endnotes -- Essay VIII: Cultural and Religious Identities -- Cultural and Religious Questions Now? -- Why Talk of Identity Today is Difficult -- Disambiguating Talk of Identity -- Reformulating the Questions -- Envoi: Fresh Questions? -- Endnotes -- Essay IX: Personal Sovereignties -- Realists and Legalists -- What Persons Are -- Who Persons Are -- Persons as Essentially Sovereign -- Envoi: Contingencies -- Endnotes.

Includes bibliographical references.

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