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Kierkegaard and the limits of the ethical

Author: Anthony Rudd
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.
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This book is a discussion of some of Kierkegaard's central ideas, showing their relevance to contemporary debates in epistemology, ethics, and the philosophy of religion. The author's aim is not simply to expound Kierkegaard's ideas but to draw on them creatively in order to illuminate questions about the foundations of morality and the nature of personal identity, as discussed by analytical philosophers such as  Read more...
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Rudd, Anthony, 1963-
Kierkegaard and the limits of the ethical.
Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1993
(OCoLC)607891564
Online version:
Rudd, Anthony, 1963-
Kierkegaard and the limits of the ethical.
Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1993
(OCoLC)623928558
Named Person: Søren Kierkegaard; Søren Kierkegaard
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Anthony Rudd
ISBN: 0198240244 9780198240242
OCLC Number: 27144326
Description: xiv, 184 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Disengagement --
Knowledge and existence --
The ethical --
From ethics to religion.
Responsibility: Anthony Rudd.
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This book is a discussion of some of Kierkegaard's central ideas, showing their relevance to contemporary debates in epistemology, ethics, and the philosophy of religion. The author's aim is not simply to expound Kierkegaard's ideas but to draw on them creatively in order to illuminate questions about the foundations of morality and the nature of personal identity, as discussed by analytical philosophers such as MacIntyre, Parfit, Williams, and Foot. Anthony Rudd seeks a way forward from the sterile conflict between the view that morality and religion are based on objective reasoning and the view that they are merely expressions of subjective emotions. He argues that morality and religion must be understood in terms of the individual's search for a sense of meaning in his or her own life, but emphasizes that this does not imply that values are arbitrary or merely subjective.

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