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9780199970704

From Enlightenment to Receptivity Rethinking Our Values

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    9780199970704

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    019997070X

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2013-01-09
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

This new book by Michael Slote argues that Western philosophy on the whole has overemphasized rational control and autonomy at the expense of the important countervailing value and virtue of receptivity. Recently the ideas of caring and empathy have received a great deal of philosophical and public attention, but both these notions rest on the deeper and broader value of receptivity, and inFrom Enlightenment to Receptivity, Slote seeks to show that we need to focus more on receptivity if we are to attain a more balanced sense and understanding of what is important to us. Beginning with a critique of Enlightenment thinking that calls into question its denial of any central role to considerations of emotion and empathy, he goes on to show how a greater emphasis on these factors and on the receptivity that underlies them can give us a more realistic, balanced, and sensitive understanding of our core ethical and epistemological values. This means rejecting post-modernism's blanket rejection of reason and of compelling real values and recognizing, rather, that receptivity should play a major role in how we lead our lives as individuals, in how we relate to nature, in how we acquire knowledge about the world, and in how we relate morally and politically with others.

Author Biography


Michael Slote is UST Professor of Ethics at the University of Miami. A member of the Royal Irish Academy and former Tanner lecturer, his work has mainly been focused on ethics, political philosophy, moral psychology, and, most recently, the philosophy of education.

Table of Contents


Introduction

Part I: Beyond Enlightenment
Foreword to Part I
Chapter 1: Empathy and Objectivity
Chapter 2: Epistemology and Emotion
Chapter 3: Caring and Enlightenment
Chapter 4: How Important Is Morality?
Chapter 5: The Impossibility of Perfection
Chapter 6: A New Picture

Part II: Receptivity
Foreword to Part II
Chapter 7: Receptivity to Life
Chapter 8: Green Thinking
Chapter 9: From Enlightenment to Receptivity
Chapter 10: The Virtue of Receptivity

Conclusion

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