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Living Without Philosophy: On Narrative, Rhetoric, and Morality

Living Without Philosophy: On Narrative, Rhetoric, and Morality

Levine, Peter

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PhilosophyGeneral Reference

ISBN10: 0791438988
ISBN13: 9780791438985
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jul 23 1998
Pages: 292
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.68 Width: 5.92 Depth: 8.96
Language: English

Drawing on implications from ethics, theology, law, politics, and education, this book argues that we can decide what is right by describing particular cases in detail, without the aid of ethical theories and principles.

Living Without Philosophy argues that we do not need ethical theories, rules, and principles to decide what is right. Instead, particular cases can be judged by a detailed description of the relevant circumstances. When our judgments differ, we can decide how to act by deliberating under fair conditions. The author provides both a philosophical argument for this position and readings of literary texts in which moral theorists are portrayed as concrete characters. These works include Plato's Protagoras, selections from the Gospels and Dante, Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, the debate between Erasmus and Luther, Erasmus's Praise of Folly, Shakespeare's King Lear, Nabokov's Lolita, and Martin Luther King's Letter from a Birmingham Jail. Thus, Levine offers essentially a moral argument for the humanities, discussing the implications not only for ethics, but also for theology, law, politics, and education.

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