The ethics of courage. Volume 2, From early modernity to the global age / Jacques M. Chevalier.
Chevalier, Jacques M., 1949- author.
2023
BJ1533.C8
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Title The ethics of courage. Volume 2, From early modernity to the global age / Jacques M. Chevalier.
Author Chevalier, Jacques M., 1949- author.
ISBN 9783031327438 (electronic bk.)
3031327438 (electronic bk.)
9783031327421
303132742X
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32743-8
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (500 pages)
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-031-32743-8 doi
Call Number BJ1533.C8
Dewey Decimal Classification 179.6
Summary This two-volume work examines far-reaching debates on the concept of courage from Greek antiquity to the Christian and mediaeval periods, as well as the modern era. Volume 1 explains how competing accounts of epistm, rational wisdom, and truth dominated classical antiquity. Early Christian and mediaeval thinkers, in contrast, favoured fortitude founded on faith and fear of God over philosophical reasoning left to its own devices. Volume 2 turns to theories of courage from the early modern period to the present. It shows how the twin laws of polis and physis are at the heart of post-medieval thought. Courage is found at the crossroads of love and dread, freedom and fate, happiness and suffering, as well as power and submission to the ruling order. The later influence of evolutionism, existentialism, and the social and natural sciences on moral philosophy is also addressed at some length. The protection of people's best interests, the passions and powers of the human will, and the rule of active energy in all aspects of life supplant courage formerly viewed through the lens of reason or faith, or a combination of the two. These new ideas, paradoxically, herald the end of the ethics of courage. They also undermine the courage of ethical thinking. Courage is no longer an end in itself, nor is it a means to happiness "at the end." Regardless of what Gandhi, Tillich, and Foucault have to say about the topic, late modernity and the global age witness a marked loss of interest in courage as an idea worthy of conceptual investigation. Debates about the moral implications of courage give way to the value-free science of resilience, which studies how people can recover from past trauma and find wellness, primarily in the realm of physis. Jacques M. Chevalier is Chancellor's Professor Emeritus at Carleton University, Canada.
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Chapter 1 Truth, power, and life
Chapter 2 The body and the body politic
Chapter 3 Self-interest and the sovereign
Chapter 4 Justice, the laws of nature, and God
Chapter 5 Moral sympathy and higher passions
Chapter 6 The natural and rational duty to God and country
Chapter 7 Michel de Montaigne and the vanity of reason
Chapter 8 Language, self-consciousness, and learning experiences
Chapter 9 Reasons examined in good conscience
Chapter 10 The evolution of mind, species, and society
Chapter 11 Variations in evolutionary ethics
Chapter 12 Utilitarianism and relativism with a bias
Chapter 13 Emersons heroes of truth
Chapter 14 The courage of despair
Chapter 15 Nietzsches animal foes and friends
Chapter 16 The will to power
Chapter 17 Thus spoke Nietzsche
Chapter 18 Courage in the body and the sociable self
Chapter 19 The courage of disobedience
Chapter 20 Paul Tillich and the courage to be
Chapter 21 Throwing courage to the dogs
Chapter 22 Risk and resilience
Chapter 23 Courage in the global age.

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