Morality, Self Knowledge and Human Suffering: An Essay on The Loss of Confidence in the World

by Corbi; Josep

• ISBN13: 9780415890694
• ISBN10: 0415890691
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-04-25
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

In this wholly original study, Josep Corbi asks how one should relate to a certain kind of human suffering, namely, the harm that people cause one another. Relying upon real life examples of human suffering--including torture, genocide, and warfare--as opposed to thought experiments, Corbi proposes a novel approach to self-knowledge that runs counter to standard Kantian approaches to morality.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Thought Experiments, Justice and Character	p. 11
John Rawls: The Original Position	p. 13
Primo Levi's Shame	p. 21
The Kantian Approach	p. 36
The Loss of Confidence in the World	p. 45
The Issue	p. 45
The Three Poles of Torture	p. 48
The Content of Our Expectations	p. 52
The Loss of Confidence in the World as an Irrational Reaction	p. 58
The Realm of Reasons and the Faustian Ideal	p. 61
Distance and Kinds of Awareness	p. 64
The Moral Reversal of Time	p. 69
To Close: A Necessary Illusion	p. 71
The Real and the Imaginary in the Soldier's Experience	p. 74
An Initial Approximation	p. 74
The Departure	p. 76
The Battlefield	p. 81
The Homecoming	p. 84
Expressive Awareness and the Matching Assumption	p. 87
The Reality of Moral Features	p. 92
The Need of a Response	p. 92
Moral Projectivism and the Bipartite Picture	p. 95
A Narrative Discipline	p. 98
Response-Dependent Properties	p. 101
Procedural vs. Substantive Realism	p. 107
The Moral Law	p. 109
The Space of Public Reasons	p. 114
Moral Principles and the Divided Conception of the Self	p. 120
Narrative Discipline and the Perplexities of Disagreement	p. 121
Moral Principles and the Divided Conception of the Self	p. 128
Character and Moral Principles	p. 133
Guilt, Principles and Morality	p. 137
Inner Figures and the Global Attack	p. 142
Inner Figures and the Human World	p. 148
Self-Knowledge in the Light of a Dance	p. 156
The Issue	p. 156
The Deliberative and the Theoretical Attitudes	p. 159
The Transparency Condition	p. 162
Avowals and the Goal of Psychoanalytic Treatment	p. 165
The Notion of Acknowledgment	p. 169
'Being Forced To'	p. 172
Receptive Passivity and Double Permeability	p. 174
Receptive Passivity and the Experience of Dancing	p. 178
Expression, Inner Figures and Psychic Health	p. 181
Conclusion	p. 187
The Moral Question	p. 187
The Divided Conception of the Self	p. 189
The Frailty of Principles	p. 194
Expressive Awareness and the Three Poles of Harm	p. 197
Notes	p. 207
References	p. 237
Index	p. 245
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