Exploring the World of Human Practice: Readings in and about the Philosophy of Aurel Kolnai

Aurel Kolnai was born in Budapest, in 1900 and died in London, in 1973. He was, according to Karl Popper and the late Bernard Williams, one of the most original, provocative, and sensitive philosophers of the twentieth century. Kolnai's moral philosophy is best described in his own words as intrinsicalist, non-naturalist, non-reductionist, which took its original impetus from Scheler's value ethics, and was developed by using a natural phenomenologist method. The unique combination of lingu...