Ethica Dialectica : A Study of Ethical Oppositions / by Howard P. Kainz

Englisch

Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1979

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Erscheint auch als (Druck-Ausgabe) : ISBN 9789400992696

Erscheint auch als (Druck-Ausgabe) : ISBN 9789024720781

Erscheint auch als (Druck-Ausgabe) : ISBN 9789400992689

978-94-009-9267-2

Weitere Ausgaben: 978-94-009-9269-6 (Druckausgabe)

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-9267-2

I. Good and EvilII. “Is” and “Ought” -- III. Virtue and Temperament -- IV. Subjective and Objective Morality -- V. Ethics and Politics -- VI. Legality and Morality -- VII. Atheism and Ethics -- VIII. Ethics and Aesthetics -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Name Index.

*Philosophy (General) ; Ethics

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: BJ1-1725

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 170;

Book Industry Communication: HPQ

bisacsh: PHI005000

I. Good and Evil -- II. “Is” and “Ought” -- III. Virtue and Temperament -- IV. Subjective and Objective Morality -- V. Ethics and Politics -- VI. Legality and Morality -- VII. Atheism and Ethics -- VIII. Ethics and Aesthetics -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Name Index.

"Dialectic" is a fulcrum word. Aristotle attacked this belief, saying that the dialectic was only suitable for some purpose- to enquire into men's beliefs, to arrive at truths about eternal forms of things, known as Ideas, which were fixed and un­ changing and constituted reality for Plato. Aristotle said there is also the method of science, or "physical" method, which observes physical facts and arrives at truths about substances, which undergo change. This duality ofform and substance and the scientific method of arriving at facts about substances were central to Aristotle's philosophy. Thus the dethronement of dialectic from what Socrates and Plato held it to be was ab­ solutely essential for Aristotle, and "dialectic" was and still is a fulcrum word . . . I think it was Coleridge who said everyone is either a Plato­ nist or an Aristotelian . . . Plato is the essential Buddha-seeker who appears again and again in each generation, moving on­ ward and upward toward the "one. " Aristotle is the eternal motorcycle mechanic who prefers the "many. " R.

 

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