Exploring the World of Human Practice: Readings in and about the Philosophy of Aurel Kolnai (Hardcover)

Preface
About the Contents of This Volume
Introduction

I. Papers by Kolnai

What Is Politics About?
A Note on the Meaning of Right and Wrong
Erroneous Conscience
Are There Degrees of Ethical Universality?
The Concept of Practical Error
Actions and Inactions
Agency and Freedom
The Indispensability of Philosophy

II. Papers about Kolnai's Work

1. Introductory
The Ethical Theories of Aurel Kolnai, John Beach
Kolnai's Mature Political Philosophy, Lee Congdon

2. Politics and Utopia
The Democratic Subversion of Political Liberty and Participation, John P. Hittinger
Liberty, Equality, Nobility: Aurel Kolnai and the Moral Foundations of Democracy, Daniel J. Mahoney
Aurel Kolnai: A Political Philosopher Confronts the Scourge of Our Epoch, Pierre Manent
Aurel Kolnai and Utopia, David Wiggins

3. Ethics
Aims in Games and Moral Purposes, Lorand Ambrus-Lakatos
Kolnai and Kant on (Human) Dignity, Zoltan Balazs
Kolnai's Dissertation "Der ethische Wert und die Wirklichkeit": A "Completion" of Scheler's Value-Ethics, Francis Dunlop
The Nature and Scope of Ordinary Morality: Some Reflections in the Spirit of Aurel Kolnai, M. W. F. Stone

4. Feeling and Emotion
Is Love Intertwined with Hatred? Andreas Dorschel
Kolnai's Idea of Emotional Presentation, Thomas Norgaard
Aurel Kolnai's "Disgust": A Source in the Art and Writing of Salvador Dali, Robert Radford

About the Contributors to This Volume
Index