Ethics, Emotion and the Unity of the Self (Routledge Revivals) - Hardcover

Letwin, Oliver

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415589320 ISBN 13: 9780415589321

Publisher: Routledge, 2010

Synopsis

This Routledge Revival reissues Oliver Letwin’s philosophical treatise: Ethics, Emotion and the Unity of the Self, first published in 1987, which concerns the applicability of the artistic classifications of romanticism and classicism to philosophical doctrine.

Dr Letwin examines three particular theses associated with philosophical romanticism: that there is within us a high self and a low self; that there is a moral self in inevitable conflict with an amoral self; and that there is a rational self disjoined from and in tension with a passionate self.

He argues that these notions of philosophical romanticism are, in fact, radically false, and instead takes the view that man can be a unified being of the sort described by philosophical classicists. But man has to work to achieve this status. The intrinsic unity of the human personality is not a guarantee of a coherent life, but a challenge to be met.

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Oliver Letwin

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415589320
• ISBN 13: 9780415589321
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 146