| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 187 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-180) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: The problem of ethics for existentialism / Christine Daigle -- The exception as reinforcement of the ethical norm : the figures of Abraham and Job in Kierkegaard's ethical thought / Dominic Desroaches -- A Nietzschean solution to ethical relativism / David W. Goldberg -- The politics of authentic existence / Todd Lavin -- Yes, she is an ethicist : Arendt, responsibility, and existentialism / Stephen Schulman -- Sartre on atheism, freedom, and morality in The humanism of existentialism / Glenn Braddock -- An ethics of measure : Camus and Rousseau / Philip Knee -- The ambiguous ethics of Beauvoir / Christine Daigle -- Merleau-Ponty's embodied ethics : rethinking traditional ethics / Kym Maclaren -- Conclusion: From the ethical to the political / Christine Daigle. |
| Summary |
An inquiry into the possibility and viability of existentialist ethics. Through examination of the thought of eight key figures in existentialism, this work tackles the difficulties raised by an existentialist ethics and shows how each thinker successfully elaborated an ethics that provides a viable alternative to traditional ethical views. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Existential ethics.
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Existential ethics. |
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Existentialism.
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Existentialism. |
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Existentialism in literature.
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Existentialism in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Daigle, Christine, 1967-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Existentialist thinkers and ethics. Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2006 9780773531062 (DLC) 2007274172 (OCoLC)65424091 |
| ISBN |
9780773585751 (electronic book) |
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0773585753 (electronic book) |
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1283529416 |
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9781283529419 |
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9780773531062 |
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0773531068 |
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0773531386 |
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9780773531383 |
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