Description
Originally published in 1967. Many critics have claimed that existentialism has not produced any ethics, as distinct from the moralistic assertions of its individual proponents. Challenging this view, Professor Olafson demonstrates that Sartre, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty indeed worked out a powerful ethical theory and that their positions must be understood as deriving from a voluntarist concept of moral autonomy that can be traced beyond Nietzsche and Kant to certain tendencies in late-medieval thought. He demonstrates that a broad parallelism exists between developments in ethical theory among Continental philosophers of the phenomenological persuasion and the more analytically inclined philosophers of the English-speaking world.
About the Author
Frederick A. Olafson was a professor of education and philosophy in the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University.
Book Information
ISBN 9781421430546
Author Frederick Olafson
Format Paperback
Page Count 278
Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press
Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
Weight(grams) 386g
