{"product_id":"9781350262317-shaping-a-modern-ethics","title":"Shaping a Modern Ethics","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Humanist Legacy from Nietzsche to Feminism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIs there any such thing as a   single ethical system to which all human beings could conceivably   subscribe?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The short answer is no; and   most people, being tolerant, would probably agree with this answer.  Yet most people, precisely in being   tolerant, also subscribe to an idea of “human rights” which presupposes just   such a universal ethics.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis basic question of ethics   is similarly treacherous when approached on a higher technical level.  Specialists have long recognized that   Kant’s categorical imperative is neither theoretically nor practically   tenable.  But efforts to revive and   repair the Kantian project—including especially the monumental work of Jürgen   Habermas—have all themselves been theoretically questionable, while   developing a complexity that makes them impractical.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMust we then simply do without   ethics in the sense of a universal ethical method?  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy way   of a close study of literary and philosophical texts, from Freud to   Machiavelli, Benjamin Bennett shows why the failure of a universal or propositional   ethics is indeed unavoidable. He uncovers a modern non-propositional ethics   that cannot be grasped in a single theoretical move but can  only be approached as a collection of   instances of a modern ethical “we”, three key examples of which Bennett   explores in this book: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- The “we” of irony, whose        speakers share a strictly preter-verbal knowledge which is concealed in        their actual utterances \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- The insistent exclusive        “we” of a group that has neither its own physical locality nor even a        clear intellectual identity, comparable to the “we” of Jews in the        diaspora \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- The “we” of feminism, a        separate “we” from that embracing people who happen to have been born        women.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57595067105654,"sku":"9781350262317","price":36.47,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_35070765.jpg?v=1775054427","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781350262317-shaping-a-modern-ethics","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}