A wide-ranging, razor sharp exploration of the debate between optimism and pessimism throughout the history of philosophy, author Mor Segev's The Value of the World and of Oneself considers the question of existence and recounts what our greatest thinkers--Aristotle, Maimonides, Spinoza, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Camus--have made of the matter.
A wide-ranging, razor sharp exploration of the debate between optimism and pessimism throughout the history of philosophy, author Mor Segev's The Value of the World and of Oneself considers the question of existence and recounts what our greatest thinkers--Aristotle, Maimonides, Spinoza, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Camus--have made of the matter.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Mor Segev is American Foundation for Greek Language and Culture (AFGLC) Professor of Greek Culture, Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Hellenic Studies, and Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of South Florida. He is the author of Aristotle on Religion (2017) and articles on Aristotle, Maimonides, Spinoza and Schopenhauer in venues such as Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Classical World, Classical Quarterly, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, History of Philosophy Quarterly, Polis and Rhizomata. Segev was a Junior Core Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at the Central European University and a Visiting Fellow at St. Catherine's College, University of Oxford.
Inhaltsangabe
* Acknowledgements * Introduction * Chapter 1. Schopenhauer's Critique of the Optimism of the Hebrew Bible and Spinoza * Chapter 2. Self-Abnegation and its Reversion to Optimism: Schopenhauer * Chapter 3. Nihilism and Self-Deification: Camus's Critical Analysis of Nietzsche in the Rebel * Chapter 4. Aristotle's Critique of Ancient Pessimism * Chapter 5. Optimism and Self-Devaluation #1: Aristotle * Chapter 6. Optimism and Self-Devaluation #2: Maimonides on Aristotle and the Hebrew Bible * Chapter 7. An Aristotelian Response to Schopenhauer's Challenge to Optimism * References
* Acknowledgements * Introduction * Chapter 1. Schopenhauer's Critique of the Optimism of the Hebrew Bible and Spinoza * Chapter 2. Self-Abnegation and its Reversion to Optimism: Schopenhauer * Chapter 3. Nihilism and Self-Deification: Camus's Critical Analysis of Nietzsche in the Rebel * Chapter 4. Aristotle's Critique of Ancient Pessimism * Chapter 5. Optimism and Self-Devaluation #1: Aristotle * Chapter 6. Optimism and Self-Devaluation #2: Maimonides on Aristotle and the Hebrew Bible * Chapter 7. An Aristotelian Response to Schopenhauer's Challenge to Optimism * References
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