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A Secular Absolute

How Modern Philosophy Discovered Authenticity

By: Ulrich Steinvorth

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A Secular Absolute

How Modern Philosophy Discovered Authenticity

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Premodern societies believed in something sacred that obliged unconditionally. Modern societies rely on fallible science. Do they also need something absolute, a secular sacred? Steinvorth analyzes the writings of modern philosophers who claim that there is an absolute norm: the norm to be rational and authentic. In his view, their claim is true if it is reinterpreted. The norm is not moral, as it was thought to be, but metaphysical, and authenticity is not self-realization, but doing things for their own sake. In discussing the pros and cons of philosophical claims on absolutes, this book spreads out the rich pool of philosophical ideas and clarifies urgent contemporary questions about what can be demanded with universal validity. It argues this is not only the principle of justice, not to harm, but also a metaphysical principle by which to find meaning in life. Moreover, it points to some consequences this principle has in politics.

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Rethinking the Western Understanding of the Self

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Rethinking the Western Understanding of the Self

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In this book, Ulrich Steinvorth offers a fresh analysis and critique of rationality as a defining element in Western thinking. Steinvorth argues that Descartes' understanding of the self offers a more plausible and realistic alternative to the prevailing understanding of the self formed by the Lockean conception and utilitarianism. When freed from Cartesian dualism, such a conceptualization enables us to distinguish between self and subject. Moreover, it enables us to understand why individualism - one of the hallmarks of modernity in the West - became a universal ideal to be granted to every member of society; how acceptance of this notion could peak in the seventeenth century; and why it is now in decline, though not irreversibly so. Most importantly, the Cartesian concept of the self presents a way of saving modernity from the dangers that it now encounters.

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A Plea for Naturalistic Metaphysics

Why Analytic Metaphysics is Not Enough

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A Plea for Naturalistic Metaphysics

Why Analytic Metaphysics is Not Enough

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In this small book, Ulrich Steinvorth describes the reasons why analytic philosophy, which started as an anti-metaphysical project, has become a strong advocate of metaphysics, and why it must become synthetic, normative, and naturalistic. Steinvorth argues that self-regulation is the common property of all being, that we can talk of an increase or escalation of self-regulation in the evolution of being, and that self-regulation becomes self-determination in man. Considering objections to this view related to questions of free will, consciousness, the naturalistic fallacy, and teleology, he draws on cybernetics, dual process theory, physical cosmology, and Leibniz’s (“demiurgic”) idea of measuring the goodness of a world by the number of possibilities opened up by the world. To test his approach and show its political relevance, he applies it to political liberalism.

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A Plea for Naturalistic Metaphysics

Why Analytic Metaphysics is Not Enough

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Secularization

An Essay in Normative Metaphysics

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Secularization

An Essay in Normative Metaphysics

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This book answers questions about secularization: Does it dissolve religion, or transform it into faith in a universally valid value? Is it restricted to the west or can it occur everywhere? Using ideas of Max Weber, the book conceives secularization as a process comparable to the rational development of science and production. What is the value secularization propagates? Sifting historical texts, Steinvorth argues the value is authenticity, to be understood as being true to one’s talents developed in activities that are done for their own sake and provide life with meaning, and as unconditionally commanded. How can a value be unconditionally demanded? This question leads to an investigation of the self that combines Kant’s ideas on the conditions of the possibility of experience with modern brain science, and to the metaphysical deliberation whether to prefer a world with creatures able to do both good and evil to one without them. It is not enough, however, to point to facts. We rather need to understand what secularization, religion and their possible rationality consist in. Max Weber’s sociology of religion has provided us with the conceptual means to do so, which this book develops. Secularization is rediscovered as the same progress of rationality in the sphere of religion that we find in the development of the spheres of science, art, the economy and politics or public affairs. It proves to be the perfection rather than the dissolution of religion – a perfection that consists in recognizing authenticity as the successor of the absolute of religion.

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A Secular Absolute

How Modern Philosophy Discovered Authenticity

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Pride and Authenticity

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Pride and Authenticity

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This book explores the morality of pride, a value that has been condemned through history and is still largely unwelcome in many societies. The author explores the nature of the self and free will, and how pride links to technology and rational theology. It refers to the work of Lionel Trilling, Allan Bloom, Charles Taylor and Heidegger on authenticity; Jacob Burckhardt, Stephen Toulmin, Max Weber and Mark Lilla on modernity; Christine Korsgaard on the self; John Rawls and Ruth Benedict on morality; and the Stoics and Kant on free will.

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Rethinking the Western Understanding of the Self

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From Capitalistic to Humanistic Business

By: Ulrich Steinvorth,Carlos Largacha-Martinez,Claus Dierksmeier

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From Capitalistic to Humanistic Business

By: Ulrich Steinvorth,Carlos Largacha-Martinez,Claus Dierksmeier

Transforming Capitalism addresses the challenges to shareholder capitalism. It explores: fair play in the market place;challenges on systemic, organizational and individual levels; the need to refocus our economic system around community and cooperation; the current challenges and transform capitalism.

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Pride and Authenticity

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Secularization

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From Capitalistic to Humanistic Business

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A Secular Absolute

A Secular Absolute

Rethinking the Western Understanding of the Self

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A Plea for Naturalistic Metaphysics

A Plea for Naturalistic Metaphysics

A Plea for Naturalistic Metaphysics

A Plea for Naturalistic Metaphysics

Secularization

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A Secular Absolute

A Secular Absolute

Pride and Authenticity

Pride and Authenticity

Rethinking the Western Understanding of the Self

Rethinking the Western Understanding of the Self

From Capitalistic to Humanistic Business

From Capitalistic to Humanistic Business

Pride and Authenticity

Pride and Authenticity

Secularization

Secularization

From Capitalistic to Humanistic Business

From Capitalistic to Humanistic Business

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