Phenomenological Approaches to Moral Philosophy

by Drummond, John J.; Embree, Lester E.

• ISBN13: 9781402007705
• ISBN10: 1402007701
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-08-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

Against the background of the recent revival of ethics, this handbook aims to show the great fertility of the phenomenological tradition for the study of ethics and moral philosophy by collecting a set of papers on the contributions to ethical thought by major phenomenological thinkers. Twenty-one chapters in the book are articles by experts who explore the thought of the major ethical thinkers in the first two generations of the phenomenological tradition and direct the reader toward the most relevant primary and secondary materials. The final three chapters of the book sketch more recent developments in various parts of the world, and the first three chapters investigate the relations between phenomenology and the dominant normative approaches in contemporary moral philosophy.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Phenomenological Tradition and Moral Philosophy	1	(14)
John J. Drummond
Aristotelianism and Phenomenology	15	(32)
John J. Drummond
Kantianism and Phenomenology	47	(22)
Steven Galt Crowell
Utilitarianism and Phenomenology	69	(18)
Dallas Willard
Hannah Arendt: The Care of the World and of the Self	87	(20)
James G. Hart
Simone de Beauvoir: An Existential-Phenomenological Ethics	107	(12)
Gail Weiss
Franz Brentano: The Foundation of Value Theory and Ethics	119	(20)
Wilhelm Baumgartner
Dorion Cairns: The Last Lecture Course on Ethics	139	(22)
Lester Embree
Hans-Georg Gadamer: Phronetic Understanding and Learned Ignorance	161	(14)
Gail Soffer
Nicolai Hartmann: Proper Ethics Is Atheistic	175	(22)
Robert Welsh Jordan
Martin Heidegger: The ``End'' of Ethics	197	(32)
R. Philip Buckley
Edmund Husserl: From Reason to Love	229	(20)
Ullrich Melle
Emmanuel Levinas: The Phenomenology of Sociality and the Ethics of Alterity	249	(20)
Robert Bernasconi
Stacy Keltner
Gabriel Marcel: Ethics within a Christian Existentialism	269	(20)
Brendan Sweetman
Maurice Merleau-Ponty: ``Ethics'' as an Ambiguous, Embodied Logos	289	(22)
William S. Hamrick
Jan Patocka: Phenomenology of Practice	311	(16)
Ilja Srubar
Adolf Reinach: Metaethics and the Philosophy of Law	327	(20)
James M. DuBois
Paul Ricoeur: The Just as Ingredient in the Good	347	(20)
Bernard P. Dauenhauer
Jean-Paul Sartre: From an Existentialist to a Realistic Ethics	367	(24)
Thomas C. Anderson
Max Scheler: A Sketch of His Moral Philosophy	391	(24)
Philip Blosser
Alfred Schutz: Reciprocity, Alterity, and Participative Citizenry	415	(22)
Michael Barber
Herbert Spiegelberg: Phenomenology in Ethics	437	(14)
Fred Kersten
Edith Stein: Woman as Ethical	451	(24)
Kathleen M. Haney
Johanna Valiquette
Dietrich von Hildebrand: Master of Phenomenological Value-Ethics	475	(22)
John F. Crosby
WATSUJI Tetsuro: Beyond Individuality, This Side of Totality	497	(20)
Tani Toru
The Return of Phenomenology in Recent French Moral Philosophy	517	(16)
Natalie Depraz
Recent Phenomenological Ethics in Germany	533	(22)
Pascal Delhom
Spain and Latin America	555
Javier San Martin Sala
Roberto J. Walton