Essays on Values and Practical Rationality: Ethical and Aesthetical Dimensions

by António Marques (Editor), João Sàágua (Editor)

Overview

This book discusses values and the exercise of practical rationality. The main feature of the research is the multiplicity of approaches of the exercise of practical rationality and the consideration of different spheres of values, that is the ethical, political and aesthetic ones.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783034330589
Publisher:	Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	03/27/2018
Series:	Lisbon Philosophical Studies - Uses of Languages in Interdisciplinary Fields , #7
Edition description:	New
Pages:	392
Product dimensions:	5.91(w) x 8.86(h) x (d)

About the Author

António Marques is Full Professor at the Department of Philosophy – Faculdade Ciências Socias e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

João Sàágua is Full Professor at the Department of Philosophy – Faculdade Ciências Socias e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

Table of Contents

Jamie Buckland: Understanding Value ‘Relativity’– Luís Sousa: Intersubjectivity and Freedom in Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception – Dina Mendonça / João Sàágua: The plural role of emotions in Ethics: the case of ethical dilemas – Susana Cadilha: John McDowell on practical rationality – is he (really) talking about us? – Regina Queiroz: Rules and personal changing – Marta Faustino: The Ethico-Political Dimension of Foucault’s Though – António Marques: Some notes on Rawls’ critique of Kant’s comprehensive moral philosophy – Erich Rast: Moral Choice without Moralism – Pietro Gori / Paolo Stellino: Moral Relativism and Perspectival Values – Gabriele De Angelis: Political ethics as a functional requirement of democracy: sketching a theory of political values in democratic systems – João Sàágua / Michael D. Baumtrog: Practical Rationality at Work – A New Argumentation Model – Giovanni Damele / Francesco Pallante: Arguing, bargaining and persuading in constituent processes – Bartholomew Ryan: ‘I’m beginning to know myself. I don’t exist.’ The Interval of Álvaro de Campos – Diana Soeiro: Rational Landscape: Spatial justice, politics and aesthetics: The city of Lisbon as a case study – Nélio Conceição: Technology and urban space: on the relation between the historical approach and the transformation of aesthetic values in Walter Benjamin – Nuno Fonseca: Aesthetic Values Before and Beyond the Evaluation of Artworks – Claudio Rozzoni: Images and Values: a Husserlian perspective – Maria Irene Aparício: The Value(s) of Cinema: Mise-en-scène, Point of View and Ethical Problems – Susana Nascimento Duarte: Vivre sa Vie: the décalage between language and life – Susana Viegas: ‘I’d rather be lucky than good.’ Ethical variations in Pickpocket and Match Point.