The Ethics of Subjectivity: Perspectives since the Dawn of Modernity

by E. Imafidon (Editor)

Overview

Through the works of key figures in ethics since modernity this book charts a shift from dominant fixated, objective moral systems and the dependence on moral authorities such as God, nature and state to universal, formal, fallible, individualistic and/or vulnerable moral systems that ensue from the modern subject's exercise of reason and freedom.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137472410
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	06/02/2015
Edition description:	2015
Pages:	344
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

Francis Offor, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Joseph Osei, Fayetteville State University, United States. Anthony O. Echekwube, Ambrose Alli University, Nigeria. Blessing O. Agidigbi, Ambrose Alli University, Nigeria. Sharli Anne Paphitis, Rhodes University, South Africa. Bob Robinson, University of Portland, Oregon. Benda Hofmeyr, University of Pretoria, South Africa. Gerasimos Kakoliris, University of Athens, Greece. Peter Ikhane, Dominican Institute, Nigeria. Isaac E. Ukpokolo, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Gregory Sadler, Marist College, New York. Precious O. Ighoroje, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Elvis Imafidon, Ambrose Alli University, Nigeria. Amaechi Udefi, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Farinola Augustine Akintunde, University of Lagos, Nigeria.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Modernity, Ethics and the Subject 1. From Chaos to Order: The Role of the Self in Hobbes' Moralism; Francis Offor 2. Kant's Contribution to Moral Evolution: Form Modernism to Postmodernism; Joseph Osei 3. The Moral Agent: Bradley's Critique of Hegel's Evolutionary Ethics; Anthony O. Echekwube 4. Reflections on Kierkegaard's Inwardness and Ethics of Subjectivity; Blessing O. Agidigbi 5. Nietzsche's Sovereign Individual and the Ethics of Subjectivity; Sharli Anne Paphitis 6. A Case for Foucault's Reversal of Opinion on the Autonomy of the Subject; Bob Robinson 7. The Ethics and Politics of Self-Creation in Foucault; Benda Hofmeyr 8. Jacques Derrida on the Ethics of Hospitality; Gerasimos Kakoliris 9. Karl Popper's Contribution to Postmodern Ethics; Joseph Osei 10. Open Standard, Open Judgement and Value Revision in Karl Popper's Moral Philosophy; Peter A. Ikhane 11. Navigating Feyerabend's Moral Philosophy: From Boundaries without Values to Values without Boundaries; Isaac E. Ukpokolo 12. Outlines of Jacques Lacan's Ethics of Subjectivity; Gregory B. Sadler 13. Ayn Rand's Ethics of Rational Selfishness; Precious O. Ighoroje 14. Habermas' Ethics of Intersubjectivity; Elvis Imafidon 15. Levinas Meets the Postcolonial: Re-thinking the Ethics of the Other; Benda Hofmeyr 16. Rorty's Contribution to Postmodern Ethics; Amaechi Udefi 17. Human Conversation and the Evolution of Ethics in Kitcher's Pragmatic Naturalism; Farinola Augustine Akintunde Selected Bibliography Index