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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... theory is to contrast two major theories : one of them , called deonto- logical , takes the notion of the right as fundamental , independent of the good , and emphasizes the assessment of human action by its responsiveness to obli ...
Stanley Cavell. To establish his political theory , Locke needed immediately to refute two competing theories : first , the theory of the divine right of kings , and second , less radically , Hobbes's theory , also employing the idea of ...
... theory concerning the consent of the gov- erned as , in his refiguration , finding an analogue in consent to the principles of justice . According to my understanding of his idea that " each aspect of the contractual situation can be ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
John Stuart Mill 82 6 Gaslight | 102 |
Themes of Moral Perfectionism in Platos Republic | 445 |
Copyright | |
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Cities of Words: Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral Life Stanley Cavell Limited preview - 2005 |