False moves in philosophy and social theory : losing public purpose / Patrick Murray, Jeanne Schuler.
Murray, Patrick.; Schuler, Jeanne.
2023
B808.5
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Title False moves in philosophy and social theory : losing public purpose / Patrick Murray, Jeanne Schuler.
Author Murray, Patrick.
ISBN 9783031350283 (electronic bk.)
3031350286 (electronic bk.)
3031350278
9783031350276
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35028-3
Imprint Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-35028-3 doi
Call Number B808.5
Dewey Decimal Classification 146/.4
Summary This book considers diverse philosophical topics unified by the identification of false moves commonly found in modern philosophy, mainstream Anglo-American philosophy, and social theory. The authors expose the sources of fundamental problems that recur in philosophybasic problems with what the authors call factoring philosophy. Factoring philosophy fails to attend to the phenomenological task of determining when what is distinguishable is separable and when not. Consequently, factoring philosophy makes phenomenological mistakes, false moves, when it treats as separable what is only distinguishable. Analytic philosophy is prone to false moves when it fails to recognize that phenomenology is the necessary complement to analysis. There is nothing wrong with analysiswe might as well give up thinking as give up analysisand nothing is wrong with the values prized by analytic philosophy. As Hegel observed, philosophizing requires, above all, that each thought should be grasped in its full precision and that nothing should remain vague and indeterminate. Ultimately, this book contends that false moves prevail in philosophical analysis and social theory when they neglect their phenomenological foundations. Patrick Murray is John C. Kenefick Faculty Chair in the Humanities, Creighton University, USA. Jeanne Schuler is Professor of Philosophy, Creighton University, USA.
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Series Political philosophy and public purpose.
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Intro
Preface: Conceptual Healing
Factoring Philosophy Confounds Common Sense and Sidelines Philosophy
Developing Good Fundamental Concepts
Philosophical Phrases that Realign Discourse
Historical Materialism and Factoring Philosophy
Acknowledgments
Contents
About the Authors
1 Introduction: How Factoring Puts Philosophy on the Sidelines
Four Views of Concepts
The Horizon of Human Existence
Phenomenology, Factoring, and False Moves
The Skeptical Drama and the Midas Touch
Pure Concepts or Worldly Concepts?

Purist Concepts and the Pure, Featureless Self
More False Moves: Winnowing and Flip-Flops
The False Philosopher's Critique of False Philosophy
Thinking Tethered to the World
Recovery of the World: Then and Now
Capitalism and False Moves
The Essay Form: Two Sources of Inspiration
Notes
References
2 Is Life Absurd?
Albert Camus: Our Futile Desire for Knowledge
Richard Taylor: Repugnance at Life
Thomas Nagel: The Absurd Two-In-One of Human Existence
A Phenomenology of Reflection
Why Global Absurdity Does not Fit Our Lives

The Importance of the Question of Life's Meaning
The Absurd that Matters
Notes
References
3 Being Mortal
Customary Views of Death
Dismissive Philosophies of Death
A Better Phenomenology of Death
The Death of Others
How a Life Comes to an End
Mortality as Being Toward the End
Anxiety Over Existing and Fear of Death
Why We Should Fear Death
Fear of Living
Notes
References
4 Reinventing Humans: The Strange Allure of Stoicism
The Promise of Stoicism
Mirroring Nature Conceals Judgment
The Deceptiveness of Stoic Advice

Faulty Phenomenology and Its Fallout
The Emptiness of Stoic Virtue
Passions on the Procrustean Bed
No Room for Action
Reinventing Temporality
One Big Desire-Many Preferences
Missing Measures and Rudderless Actions
"a Refined System of Selfishness" vs. Virtue Engaged in the World
Notes
References
5 Beyond the Illusion of Philosophical Egoism: Recovering Self-Love and Selfishness
Egoism and Capitalism
Responding to Egoism: Socrates Faces Thrasymachus
How Untethered Analysis Engenders Egoism
Another Contrived Dilemma: The "Paradox of Hedonism"

A Deeper Case Against Descriptive Egoism
Self-Interest is a Pseudo-Concept
Recovering the Virtue of Self-Love and the Vice of Selfishness
Notes
References
6 Moral Luck, Responsibility, and This Worldly Life
Luck Happens
How False Philosophy Makes the Familiar Disappear
Sliding from Moral Luck to the Vanishing of Responsibility
How Kant Excludes Moral Luck
The Dualism That Engenders Moral Luck
Cases of Moral Luck: Gauguin and Lt. Calley
Kant's Skeptical Legacy
A Skeptical View of Judgment and "Objective Engagement"

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