Morality, Self Knowledge and Human Suffering: An Essay on The Loss of Confidence in the World (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy)

Corb?, Josep

ISBN 10: 0415890691 / ISBN 13: 9780415890694

Published by Routledge, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Morality, Self Knowledge and Human Suffering: An Essay on The Loss of Confidence in the World (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415890691
• ISBN 13: 9780415890694
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Like New
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

In this wholly original study, Josep Corbi asks how one should relate to a certain kind of human suffering, namely, the harm that people cause one another. Relying upon real life examples of human suffering--including torture, genocide, and warfare--as opposed to thought experiments, Corbi proposes a novel approach to self-knowledge that runs counter to standard Kantian approaches to morality.

About the Author

Josep E. Corbí is a full professor at the University of Valencia. He has published Minds, Causes, and Mechanisms. A Case Against Mechanisms (with Josep L. Prades; Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2000) and Un lugar para la moral (Madrid: Antonio Machado, 2003), as well as a number of papers in philosophy of mind, meta-ethics and epistemology.