False moves in philosophy and social theory : losing public purpose

False moves in philosophy and social theory : losing public purpose / Patrick Murray, Jeanne Schuler.

This book considers diverse philosophical topics unified by the identification of false moves commonly found in modern philosophy, mainstream Anglo-American philosophy, and social theory. The authors expose the sources of fundamental problems that recur in philosophybasic problems with what the auth...

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Main Author: Murray, Patrick
Other Authors: Schuler, Jeanne
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Series:Political philosophy and public purpose.
Subjects:
Analysis (Philosophy)
Phenomenology.
phenomenology.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Preface: Conceptual Healing
  • Factoring Philosophy Confounds Common Sense and Sidelines Philosophy
  • Developing Good Fundamental Concepts
  • Philosophical Phrases that Realign Discourse
  • Historical Materialism and Factoring Philosophy
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • About the Authors
  • 1 Introduction: How Factoring Puts Philosophy on the Sidelines
  • Four Views of Concepts
  • The Horizon of Human Existence
  • Phenomenology, Factoring, and False Moves
  • The Skeptical Drama and the Midas Touch
  • Pure Concepts or Worldly Concepts?
  • Purist Concepts and the Pure, Featureless Self
  • More False Moves: Winnowing and Flip-Flops
  • The False Philosopher's Critique of False Philosophy
  • Thinking Tethered to the World
  • Recovery of the World: Then and Now
  • Capitalism and False Moves
  • The Essay Form: Two Sources of Inspiration
  • Notes
  • References
  • 2 Is Life Absurd?
  • Albert Camus: Our Futile Desire for Knowledge
  • Richard Taylor: Repugnance at Life
  • Thomas Nagel: The Absurd Two-In-One of Human Existence
  • A Phenomenology of Reflection
  • Why Global Absurdity Does not Fit Our Lives
  • The Importance of the Question of Life's Meaning
  • The Absurd that Matters
  • Notes
  • References
  • 3 Being Mortal
  • Customary Views of Death
  • Dismissive Philosophies of Death
  • A Better Phenomenology of Death
  • The Death of Others
  • How a Life Comes to an End
  • Mortality as Being Toward the End
  • Anxiety Over Existing and Fear of Death
  • Why We Should Fear Death
  • Fear of Living
  • Notes
  • References
  • 4 Reinventing Humans: The Strange Allure of Stoicism
  • The Promise of Stoicism
  • Mirroring Nature Conceals Judgment
  • The Deceptiveness of Stoic Advice
  • Faulty Phenomenology and Its Fallout
  • The Emptiness of Stoic Virtue
  • Passions on the Procrustean Bed
  • No Room for Action
  • Reinventing Temporality
  • One Big Desire-Many Preferences
  • Missing Measures and Rudderless Actions
  • "a Refined System of Selfishness" vs. Virtue Engaged in the World
  • Notes
  • References
  • 5 Beyond the Illusion of Philosophical Egoism: Recovering Self-Love and Selfishness
  • Egoism and Capitalism
  • Responding to Egoism: Socrates Faces Thrasymachus
  • How Untethered Analysis Engenders Egoism
  • Another Contrived Dilemma: The "Paradox of Hedonism"
  • A Deeper Case Against Descriptive Egoism
  • Self-Interest is a Pseudo-Concept
  • Recovering the Virtue of Self-Love and the Vice of Selfishness
  • Notes
  • References
  • 6 Moral Luck, Responsibility, and This Worldly Life
  • Luck Happens
  • How False Philosophy Makes the Familiar Disappear
  • Sliding from Moral Luck to the Vanishing of Responsibility
  • How Kant Excludes Moral Luck
  • The Dualism That Engenders Moral Luck
  • Cases of Moral Luck: Gauguin and Lt. Calley
  • Kant's Skeptical Legacy
  • A Skeptical View of Judgment and "Objective Engagement"

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