Ethics and Self-Cultivation (eBook, ePUB)

Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Redaktion: Dennis, Matthew; Werkhoven, Sander

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume aims to establish a new cultivation of the self strand within contemporary moral philosophy. It offers a fresh approach to the eudaimonic tradition: instead of conditions for rightness of actions, it focuses on conceptions of human life that are best for the one living it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351591539
• Artikelnr.: 52447855

Autorenporträt

Matthew Dennis is a doctoral researcher on the joint-PhD programme of the universities of Warwick (UK) and Monash (Australia), specialising in philosophical accounts of character-development and self-cultivation. His current work draws on French and German philosophy, exploring how these traditions have the resources to contribute to debates in Anglophone ethics. He has published on Nietzsche, Kant, and virtue theory, and is currently writing on the philosophy of technology. Sander Werkhoven is an Assistant Professor of Ethics at the Department of Philosophy at Utrecht University and a member of the Ethics Institute. His main research areas are the philosophy of medicine and psychiatry, normative ethics, and meta-ethics. He has published on theories of health and well-being in international journals, and has papers forthcoming on Nietzsche, Canguilhem, and Foucault.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Michael Slote
Introduction Matthew Dennis and Sander Werkhoven
Part I: Historical Perspectives
1. Roman Stoic Mindfulness: An Ancient Technology of the Self John Sellars
2. Affective Therapy: Spinoza's Approach to Self-Cultivation Aurelia
Armstrong
3. Was I just Lucky?: Kant on Self-Opacity and Self-Cultivation Irina
Schumski
4. Nietzsche and Kant on Epicurus and Self-Cultivation Keith Ansell-Pearson
5. Nietzsche's Ethics of Self-Cultivation and Eternity Michael Ure
6. Ilsetraut Hadot's Seneca: Spiritual Direction and the Transformation of
the Other Matthew Sharpe
7. Foucault, Stoicism and Self-Mastery Katrina Mitcheson
Part II: Contemporary Perspectives
8. Neo-Aristotelianism: Virtue, Habituation, and Self-Cultivation Dawa
Ometto and Annemarie Kalis
9. Formal Excellences and Familiar Excellences Edward Harcourt
10. Cultivating an Integrated Self Luke Brunning
11. Moral Perception and Relational Self-Cultivation: Reassessing
Attunement as a Virtue Anna Bergqvist
Epilogue: Reflections on the Value of Self-Knowledge for Self-Cultivation
Quassim Cassam, Matthew Dennis, Sander Werkhoven