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

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9637326014 ISBN 13: 9789637326011

Publisher: Central European University Press, 2004

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Zoltan Balazs PhD, Associate Professor at the P.Pazmany Catholic University, Institute of Sociology. Most recent publications: The Political Community (Budapest: Osiris, 2003); Aurel Kolnai (Budapest: Uj Mandatum, 2003), The Ontology of Moral Relations (Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 3.2004); Francis Dunlop PhD, Honorary Lecturer of the University of East Anglia, Philosophy Department. Most recent publications: The Life and Thought of Aurel Kolnai, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002; Early Ethical Writings of Aurel Kolnai, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004.

Edition details

• Publisher: Central European University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 9637326014
• ISBN 13: 9789637326011
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 354
• Editor: Balázs Zoltán, Dunlop Francis