Reason''s Grief : An Essay on Tragedy and Value

Name: Reason''s Grief
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521863285
Price: 10800 KES
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ISBN: 9780521863285

by George W. Harris

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Format Hardback

ISBN-10 0521863287

ISBN-13 9780521863285

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jul 24th, 2006

Print length 314 Pages

Weight 568 grams

Dimensions 23.20 x 16.30 x 2.70 cms

Product Classification: Philosophy Philosophy

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This book takes W. B. Yeats's comment that we begin to live only when we have conceived life as tragedy as a call for a tragic ethics. We must accept an ethical perspective that avoids fantasies about redemption yet finds a way to think and act with both passion and hope.

Reason's Grief takes W. B. Yeats's comment that we begin to live only when we have conceived life as tragedy as a call for a tragic ethics, something the modern West has yet to produce. Harris argues that we must turn away from religious understandings of tragedy and the human condition and realize that our species will occupy a very brief period of history, at some point to disappear without a trace. We must accept an ethical perspective that avoids pernicious fantasies about ultimate redemption but that sees tragic loss as a permanent and pervasive aspect of our daily lives, yet finds a way to think, feel and act with both passion and hope. Reason's Grief takes us back through the history of our thinking about value to find our way. The call is for nothing less than a paradigm shift for understanding both tragedy and ethics.

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