Human predicaments and what to do about them /
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| Author / Creator: | Kekes, John, author. |
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| Imprint: | Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016. ©2016 |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 258 pages) |
| Language: | English |
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| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11265353 |
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| 505 | 0 | |a A note to the reader -- Acknowledgments -- Human predicaments and problems -- The question -- The aim -- Deep conflicts -- The standard view -- The shilluk -- The exclusivist mistake -- The parochial mistake -- The optimistic mistake -- Facing conflicts -- Difficult choices -- Commitments -- Difficult choices -- Decisions -- The Hindu and balinese alternatives -- Consequences -- Toward reasonable decisions -- The force of fate -- What is fate? -- What is autonomy? -- Three metaphors -- Mistaken evaluations -- Hiromichi Yahara -- Correcting evaluations -- Fear of meaninglessness -- Fear -- Prudence -- Prudential strategies -- Reasons for prudence -- Reasons against prudence -- Avoiding extremes -- The contingencies of life -- The counsel of imperfection -- Contingencies -- Justice -- Scarcity, incorrigibility, and conflict -- Imperfect justice -- The divided self -- The self -- Dissociation of sensibility -- The ideal of an undivided self -- Hernan Cortes -- Simone Weil -- Reasonable doubt -- Negative capability -- The complexities of problems -- The problem -- Avoiding confusion -- Difficult choices -- Conflicts -- Michel de Montaigne -- Doubts -- Toward realism -- Unavoidable hypocrisy -- Hypocrisy -- Authenticity -- Defending authenticity -- The value of life -- Hypocrisy or authenticity? -- Against formulas -- The miasma of boredom -- Understanding boredom -- Explanation -- Characteristics -- The predicament -- Why now? -- Possible responses -- Coping with boredom -- The prevalence of evil -- What is evil? -- The Aztecs -- The end of reasons? -- The need for reasons -- The importance of alternatives -- Good will -- The danger of innocence -- The conflict -- The ideal of innocence -- Deianera -- The ideal of reflection -- Reflection, innocence, and ideal theories -- Toward deeper understanding -- Notes -- Bibliography. | |
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| 520 | |a In his latest book, esteemed philosopher John Kekes draws on anthropology, history, and literature in order to help us cope with the common predicaments that plague us as we try to take control of our lives. In each chapter he offers fascinating new ways of thinking about a particular problem that is fundamental to how we live, such as facing difficult choices, uncontrollable contingencies, complex evaluations, the failures of justice, the miasma of boredom, and the inescapable hypocrisies of social life. Kekes considers how we might deal with these predicaments by comparing how others in different times and cultures have approached them. He examines what is good, bad, instructive, and dangerous in the sexually charged politics of the Shilluk, the Hindu caste system, Balinese role-morality, the religious passion of Cortes and Simone Weil, the fate of Colonel Hiromichi Yahara during and after the battle for Okinawa, the ritual human sacrifices of the Aztecs, and the tragedies to which innocence may lead. In doing so, he shakes us out of our deep-seated ways of thinking, enlarging our understanding of the possibilities available to us as we struggle with the problems that stand in the way of how we want to live. The result is a highly interesting journey through time and space that illuminates and helps us cope with some of the most basic predicaments we all face as human beings. | ||
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