Cities of WordsHarvard University Press, 2004 M05 24 - 480 pages Since Socrates and his circle first tried to frame the Just City in words, discussion of a perfect communal life--a life of justice, reflection, and mutual respect--has had to come to terms with the distance between that idea and reality. Measuring this distance step by practical step is the philosophical project that Stanley Cavell has pursued on his exploratory path. Situated at the intersection of two of his longstanding interests--Emersonian philosophy and the Hollywood comedy of remarriage--Cavell's new work marks a significant advance in this project. The book--which presents a course of lectures Cavell presented several times toward the end of his teaching career at Harvard--links masterpieces of moral philosophy and classic Hollywood comedies to fashion a new way of looking at our lives and learning to live with ourselves. |
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... Rawls's A Theory of Justice such a principle is not ( though incomplete ) irrel- evant ; but it is held to apply only subsequent to the assessment of liberty . And when issues of pleasure and pain do become relevant , the question of ...
... Rawls : it is morality itself , specifically justice itself , that is rigorous . Treating oneself as just one voice in a system of equal voices - no more and no less than this - is rigorous . Rawls's view might be said to mitigate as ...
... Rawls's early paper " Two Concepts of Rules . " Rawls does not , I believe , refer to this influential paper in A Theory of Justice . But Christine Korsgaard , one of Rawls's most influential successors , does refer to it in her ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
John Stuart Mill 82 6 Gaslight | 102 |
Themes of Moral Perfectionism in Platos Republic | 445 |
Copyright | |
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