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- Svensson, Frans
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Non-Eudaimonism, The Sufficiency of Virtue for Happiness, and Two Senses of the Highest Good in Descartes’s Ethics
- 2015
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Ingår i: British Journal for the History of Philosophy. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0960-8788 .- 1469-3526. ; 23:2, s. 277-296
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In his reflections on ethics, Descartes distances himself from the eudaimonistic tradition in moral philosophy by introducing a distinction between happiness and the highest good. While happiness, in Descartes's view, consists in an inner state of complete harmony and satisfaction, the highest good instead consists in virtue, i.e. in 'a firm and constant resolution' (e.g. CSMK: 325/AT 5: 83) to always use our free will well or correctly. In Section 1 of this paper, I pursue the Cartesian distinction between happiness and the highest good in some detail. In Section 2, I discuss the question of how the motivation to virtue should be accounted for within Descartes's ethical framework. In Section 3, I turn to Descartes's defence of the view that virtue, while fundamentally distinct from happiness, is nevertheless sufficient for obtaining it. In the final section of the paper (Section 4), my concern is instead with a second and sometimes neglected distinction that Descartes makes between two different senses of the highest good. I show that this distinction does not remove the non-eudaimonistic character of Descartes's ethics suggested in Section 1, and present two reasons for why the distinction is important for Descartes's purposes.
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- Hallengren, Anders, 1950-
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The code of Concord : Emerson's search for universal laws
- 1994. - 1
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The purpose of this work is to detect a pattern: the concordance of Ethics and Aesthetics, Poetics and Politics in the most influential American thinker of the nineteenth century. It is an attempt to trace a basic concept of the Emersonian transcendentalist doctrine, its development, its philosophical meaning and practical implications. Emerson’s thought is analyzed genetically in search of the generating paradigm, or the set of axioms from which his aesthetic ideas as well as his political reasoning are derived. Such a basic structure, or point of convergence, is sought in the emergence of Emerson’s idea of universal laws that repeat themselves on all levels of reality.A general introduction is given in Part One, where the crisis in Emerson’s life is seen as representing and foreshadowing the deeper existential crisis of modern man.In Part 2 we follow the increasingly skeptical theologian’s turn to science, where he tries to secure a safe secular foundation for ethical good and right and to solve the problem of evil.Part 3 shows how Emerson’s conception of the laws of nature and ethics is applied in his political philosophy.In Part 4, Emerson’s ideas of the arts are seen as corresponding to his views of nature, morality, and individuality.Finally, in Part 5, the ancient and classical nature of Concord philosophy is brought into focus.The book concludes with a short summary.
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- Wallrup, Erik, 1966-
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Vi är inte klara med Nietzsche på länge än : Artikel under strecket i SvD, recension av David Brolins Friedrich Nietzsche. Liv, filosofi, politik (Häften för kritiska studier, 352 s) och Fredrika Spindlers Nietzsche. Kropp, konst, kunskap(Glänta Produktion, 182 s).
- 2010
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Ingår i: Svenska Dagbladet. - 1101-2412.
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Recension (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Det finns över 20000 volymer om Friedrich Nietzsche. Två svenska Nietzschekännare har i höst bidragit med böcker som visar att filosofen fortfarande låter sig läsas som både protofascist och frihetsapostel.
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The Ethos of History : Time and Responsibility
- 2018
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- At a time when rapidly evolving technologies, political turmoil, and the tensions inherent in multiculturalism and globalization are reshaping historical consciousness, what is the proper role for historians and their work? By way of an answer, the contributors to this volume offer up an illuminating collective meditation on the idea of ethos and its relevance for historical practice. These intellectually adventurous essays demonstrate how ethos—a term evoking a society’s “fundamental character” as well as an ethical appeal to knowledge and commitment—can serve as a conceptual lodestar for history today, not only as a narrative, but as a form of consciousness and an ethical-political orientation.
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- Oetke, Claus
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Article on Nāgārjuna:Madhyamakakārikā
- 1999
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Ingår i: Großes Werklexikon der Philosophie. - : Alfred Kröner Verlag. Stuttgart. - 3520829010 ; , s. 1063-1064
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History of Participatory Media : Politics and Publics, 1750–2000
- 2011
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- This book argues for a historical perspective on issues relating to the notion of participatory media. Working from a broad concept of media – including essays on the 19th century press, early sound media, photography, exhibitions, television and the internet – the book offers a broad empirical approach to different modes of audience participation from the mid 19th century to the present. Using the insights from the historical case studies, the book also explores some of the key concepts in discussions on the politics of participation, arguing for a theoretical perspective sensitive to the asymmetries that characterize the distribution of agency in the relationship between media and users.Scholarly discussions on participatory media now occur in several fields. This book argues that all of these discussions are all too often obscured by a rhetoric of newness, assuming that participatory media is something unique in history, radical and revolutionary. By challenging the historiography implicit in this rhetoric, the book also engages in a discussion of issues of more general relevance to the multidisciplinary field of media history.
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- Dahlkvist, Tobias, 1977-
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Cioran e o Pessimismo como Modo de Vida
- 2022
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Ingår i: Filosofia como Modo de Vida. - Coimbra : Edições 70. - 9789724425269 ; , s. 445-468
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- Östlund, David
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Ett manifest för processtolkande idéhistoria: 100 teser om tänkandet och dess historieskrivning
- 1998
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Ingår i: Lychnos: Årsbok för idé- och lärdomshistoria. - 0076-1648. ; , s. 9-36
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The historiography of "ideas" and its basic conditions are treated under five headings: "Prepatory remarks"; "Cognitive work - its frames of interest and course through interrogative processes [spörsmålsprocesser]"; "The stylisation of thought by means of social interaction; "Thought as situated use of words"; "The responsibility of the thinker and the judicial interrogative process". Starting from a criticism against the blind use of everyday language in methodological self-reflection and historical analysis among intellectual historians - the habit of speech referring to "ideas" as ethereal things, not as human activities - the historical nature of the intellectual historians task is emphasised. A set of analytical tools and heuristic viewpoints are proposed, stressing the social nature of thinking: thought is nothing more or less than human acts and efforts which takes place in historical processes of interaction - processes to be reconstructed by the intellectual historian.
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