Solicitations : Poverties, Discourses and Limits / Peter McCormick.

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Cover -- Titelei -- Impressum -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- Contents -- Preface -- Essay I: Orientations:Community in the EU and Japan -- Introductions -- An Elementary Contrast -- Some Buddhist Backgrounds -- Steps on a Shin Buddhist Path -- Renewing European Philosophical Reflection on CommunityConcluding Remarks -- Endnotes -- Part One: MORALSOLICITATIONS -- Essay II:Poor No More?Eco-Ethicaand "A Philosophy of Development -- Orientations -- Some Basic Terms and Distinctions -- Development Goals and Eradicating Extreme Poverty -- A Global Philosophy of Development?

Difficulties with Development and Sustainability -- An Economic and Philosophical Alternative? -- An Eco Ethical Perspective -- By Way of Concluding -- Endnotes -- Essay III:Poverty and Anti-Povertyin France Today -- France and the Challenge of Eradicating Extreme Poverty -- From Monetary Poverty to a Poverty of Destiny -- The 2018 French Anti-PovertyProgram -- A Fresh Start? -- A French Anti-PovertyProgram and Its Presuppositions -- By Way of Concluding -- Endnotes -- Part Two: SYMBOLIC DISCOURSES -- Essay IV:Human Beings and Symbolic Behaviors -- Orientations -- Cardinal Terms

Material Histories -- Linguistic Communications -- Symbolic Behaviors -- The Basic Property of Language's Triple Framework -- Concluding Remarks -- Endnotes -- Essay V:Persons and Symbolic Discourse -- Orientations -- Symbols and Full Human Linguistic Capacities -- Backgrounds -- Language's Symbolic Character -- Not Synthesis but Complementarity -- Alternative Elements of Symbolic Discourse -- The Nature of the Verbal Symbol -- Envoi: Full Human Linguistic Capacities -- Endnotes -- Part Three: ETHICAL LIMITS -- Essay VI: Ethics versus Moral Philosophy? -- Orientations

"Ethics" versus "Moral Philosophy" -- Philosophical Ethics -- "What Can [Moral] Philosophy Contribute to Ethics?" -- Endnotes -- Essay VII: Ethical Limits: Resting on Night? -- Renewing Philosophical Ethics Today -- Interpreting A Poetry of Suffering -- Interpretation and Rationality -- The Force of the Negative -- Metaphysical Space -- Envoi: The Dark Borders of Ethics -- Endnotes -- Essay VIII: Ethics and Destitution -- Orientations -- Darfour Yesterday -- Recollection -- Deliverance -- Sharing -- Transferring -- Realizing -- Actualizing -- Envoi -- Endnotes

Includes bibliographical references.

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