Hunter Lewis

The Secular Saints: And Why Morals Are Not Just Subjective

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Produktbeschreibung

This book provides "brief lives" and thoughts of some leading candidates for the term secular saint. All of them have much to teach us about how we lead our lives and think about the fundamental questions we all face. This book also offers a conclusion: that morals and ethics are not just subjective, that they are grounded in very objective realities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hunter Lewis Foundation
• Seitenzahl: 435
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 140mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 578g
• ISBN-13: 9781604191189
• ISBN-10: 160419118X
• Artikelnr.: 48139119

Autorenporträt

By Hunter Lewis

Inhaltsangabe

Part One: Introduction
Chapter 1 Are Morals Subjective?
Part Two: Ancient Moral Thinkers
Chapter 2 Socrates (469-399 BCE)
Chapter 3 Aristotle (384-322 BCE)
Chapter 4 Epicurus (342-270 BCE )
Chapter 5 Epictetus (55-135 CE)
Part Three: Modern Moral Thinkers
Chapter 6 Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536)
Chapter 7 Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
Chapter 8 Baruch de Spinoza (1632-1677)
Chapter 9 David Hume (1711-1776)
Chapter 10 Adam Smith (1723-1790)
Chapter 11 Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
Chapter 12 Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)
Chapter 13 Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
Part Four: Modern Moral Thinkers and Doers
Chapter 14 Jane Addams (1860-1935)
Chapter 15 Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973)
Chapter 16 Eudora Welty (1909-2001)
Chapter 17 Edna Lewis (1916-2006)
Part Five: Conclusion
Chapter 18 Why Morals