Description
This book closely examines texts from Chinese and Western traditions that hold up ethics as the inviolable ground of human existence, as well as those that regard ethics with suspicion. The negative notion of morality contends that because ethics cannot be divorced from questions of belonging and identity, there is a danger that it can be nudged into the domain of the unethical since ethical virtues can become properties to be possessed with which the recognition of others is solicited. Ethics thus fosters the very egoism it hopes to transcend, and risks excluding the unfamiliar and the stranger. The author argues inspirationally that the unethical underbelly of ethics must be recognised in order to ensure that it remains vibrant.
About the Author
Katrin Froese is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Philosophy at the University of Calgary, Canada. She is the author of Rousseau and Nietzsche: Toward an Aesthetic Morality (Lexington Books, 2001) and Nietzsche, Heidegger and Daoist Thought: Crossing Paths in-Between (State University of New York Press, 2006).
Book Information
ISBN 9789629964962
Author Katrin Froese
Format Hardback
Page Count 250
Imprint The Chinese University Press
Publisher The Chinese University Press
Weight(grams) 1188g
Dimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm * 15mm
About the Author
Katrin Froese is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Philosophy at the University of Calgary, Canada. She is the author of Rousseau and Nietzsche: Toward an Aesthetic Morality (Lexington Books, 2001) and Nietzsche, Heidegger and Daoist Thought: Crossing Paths in-Between (State University of New York Press, 2006).
Book Information
ISBN 9789629964962
Author Katrin Froese
Format Hardback
Page Count 250
Imprint The Chinese University Press
Publisher The Chinese University Press
Weight(grams) 1188g
Dimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm * 15mm
