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What Ought I to Do?
Catherine Chalier
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Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 314.
Is it possible to apply a theoretical approach to ethics? The French philosopher Catherine Chalier addresses this question with an unusual combination of traditional ethics and continental philosophy. In a powerful argument for the necessity of moral reflection, Chalier counters the notion that morality can be derived from theoretical knowledge. Chalier analyzes the positions of two great moral philosophers, Kant and Levinas. While both are critical of an ethics founded on knowledge, their criticisms spring from distinctly different points of view. Chalier reexamines their conclusions, pitting Levinas against (and with) Kant, to interrogate the very foundations of moral philosophy and ... Read more
Is it possible to apply a theoretical approach to ethics? The French philosopher Catherine Chalier addresses this question with an unusual combination of traditional ethics and continental philosophy. In a powerful argument for the necessity of moral reflection, Chalier counters the notion that morality can be derived from theoretical knowledge. Chalier analyzes the positions of two great moral philosophers, Kant and Levinas. While both are critical of an ethics founded on knowledge, their criticisms spring from distinctly different points of view. Chalier reexamines their conclusions, pitting Levinas against (and with) Kant, to interrogate the very foundations of moral philosophy and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
Weight
314g
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801487941
SKU
V9780801487941
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About Catherine Chalier
Catherine Chalier is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris, Nanterre, and the author of numerous books on Levinas. Jane Marie Todd is the translator of four books published by Cornell, most recently Algeria, 1830-2000: A Short History by Benjamin Stora.
Reviews for What Ought I to Do?
Kant is the figure in the western philosophical tradition that Levinas most resembles, yet there are important differences between them, most notably on the issue of autonomy versus heteronomy. Hitherto the relation between Levinas and Kant has not been clearly understood. It is the great virtue of Catherine Chalier's impressive book that these differences and similarities can be brought together ... Read more