Exploring the World of Human Practice: Readings in and about the Philosophy of Aurel Kolnai

Published by Central European University Press 2004

Exploring the World of Human Practice

Readings in and about the Philosophy of Aurel Kolnai

Edited by: Zoltán Balázs and Francis Dunlop

https://doi.org/10.1515/9786155211102

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Aurel Kolnai was born in Budapest, in 1900 and died in London, in 1973. He was, according to Karl Popper and the late Bernard Williams, one of the most original, provocative, and sensitive philosophers of the twentieth century. Kolnai's moral philosophy is best described in his own words as intrinsicalist, non-naturalist, non-reductionist", which took its original impetus from Scheler's value ethics, and was developed by using a natural phenomenologist method. The unique combination of linguistic analysis and phenomenology yields highly original ideas on classical fields of moral theory, such as responsibility and free will, the meaning of right and wrong, the universalisability of ethical norms, the role of moral emotions, internalism vs externalism, to mention a few. The volume presents a selection of essays by Kolnai, including his main political theoretical work, "What is Politics About", available in English here for the first time. The second half of the book Kolnai's work is analyzed in a series of essays by eminent scholars

Author / Editor information

Balázs Zoltán :

Zoltán Balázs is Associate Professor at the Péter Pázmány Catholic University, Budapest–Piliscsaba, and author of The Political Community (Budapest: Osiris, 2003) and Aurel Kolnai (Budapest: Új Mandátum, 2003).

Dunlop Francis :

Francis Dunlop is Honorary Lecturer of the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, and author of The Life and Thought of Aurel Kolnai (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002) and Early Ethical Writings of Aurel Kolnai (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004).

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
About the Contents of This Volume Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Francis Dunlop Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I. PAPERS BY KOLNAI
What Is Politics About? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
A Note on the Meaning of Right and Wrong Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
Erroneous Conscience Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Are There Degrees of Ethical Universality? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
The Concept of Practical Error Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
Actions and Inactions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
Agency and Freedom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
The Indispensability of Philosophy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
II. PAPERS ABOUT KOLNAI’S WORK
1. Introductory
Kolnai’s Mature Political Philosophy Lee Congdon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
The Ethical Theories of Aurel Kolnai John D. Beach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
2. Politics and Utopia
The Democratic Subversion of Political Liberty and Participation John P. Hittinger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Liberty, Equality, Nobility: Aurel Kolnai and the Moral Foundations of Democracy Daniel J. Mahoney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
Aurel Kolnai: A Political Philosopher Confronts the Scourge of Our Epoch Pierre Manent Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
Aurel Kolnai and Utopia David Wiggins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
3. Ethics
Aims in Games and Moral Purposes Loránd Ambrus-Lakatos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Kolnai and Kant on (Human) Dignity Zoltán Balázs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Kolnai’s Dissertation Der ethische Wert und die Wirklichkeit: A “Completion” of Scheler’s Value-Ethics Francis Dunlop Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
The Nature and Scope of Ordinary Morality: Some Reflections in the Spirit of Aurel Kolnai M. W. F. Stone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
4. Feeling and Emotion
Is Love Intertwined with Hatred? Andreas Dorschel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299
Kolnai’s Idea of Emotional Presentation Thomas Norgaard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	313
Aurel Kolnai’s “Disgust”: A Source in the Art and Writing of Salvador Dalí Robert Radford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	327
About the Contributors to This Volume Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333
Indexes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335

Language: English
Publisher: Central European University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 354
Keywords: phenomenology; political philosophy; internalism; externalism

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Published: December 10, 2004
ISBN: 9786155211102