Reason''s Grief : An Essay on Tragedy and Value
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1107407249
ISBN-13
9781107407244
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 13th, 2012
Print length
314 Pages
Weight
460 grams
Dimensions
22.90 x 15.20 x 1.80 cms
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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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