World Without Why

Name: World Without Why
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ISBN: 9780691155883

ISBN-10: 0691155887

ISBN-13: 9780691155883

Edition: 2014

Authors: Raymond Geuss

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Wishful thinking is a deeply ingrained human trait that has had a long-term distorting effect on ethical thinking. Many influential ethical views depend on the optimistic assumption that, despite appearances to the contrary, the human and natural world in which we live could, eventually, be made to make sense to us. In A World without Why, Raymond Geuss challenges this assumption.The essays in this collection--several of which are published here for the first time--explore the genesis and historical development of this optimistic configuration in ethical thought and the ways in which it has shown itself to be unfounded and misguided. Discussions of Greco-Roman antiquity and of the…

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List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 3/18/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 5.83" wide x 8.58" long x 0.92" tall
Weight: 0.946