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Language: English
Published by The Johns Hopkins University Pre, 1967
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- Title
- Principles and Persons: An Ethical Interpretation of Existentialism
- Author
- Olafson, Professor Frederick
- Publisher
- The Johns Hopkins University Pre
- Publication year
- 1967
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0801804973
- ISBN 13
- 9780801804977
Originally published in 1967. Many critics have claimed that existentialism has not produced any ethics, as distinct from the moralistic assertions of its individual proponents. Challenging this view, Professor Olafson demonstrates that Sartre, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty indeed worked out a powerful ethical theory and that their positions must be understood as deriving from a voluntarist concept of moral autonomy that can be traced beyond Nietzsche and Kant to certain tendencies in late-medieval thought. He demonstrates that a broad parallelism exists between developments in ethical theory among Continental philosophers of the phenomenological persuasion and the more analytically inclined philosophers of the English-speaking world.
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About the Author
Frederick A. Olafson was a professor of education and philosophy in the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University.
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