Blindly Seeing: Essays in Ethics: Discourses, Sayings, Sufferings

In: libri nigri v.63

Abstract

Cover -- Prelims -- Imprint -- Contents -- Preface -- Introductions: Intuitions: Religious, Literary, and Ethical -- Moral Intuitionism -- Moral and Ethical Visions -- A Condition for Moral and Ethical Vision? -- Envoi -- Endnotes -- Part One: DISCOURSES -- Essay I: Understanding European and Islamic Cultures -- Lines From An Arabic Lyric -- Understanding Figurative Discourses Externally -- A Difficulty With Cultural Externalism -- Understanding Figurative Discourses Internally -- A Problem With Cultural Internalism -- Why Cultural Internalism and Externalism Fail -- An Objection -- What This Figurative Discourse Is About -- Envoi -- Endnotes -- Essay II: Figurative Discourse in Japanese Poetry -- Beside the Stream of Izumi -- A Culturally Internalist Account of Interpretation -- Interpretation and Metaphysics -- Interpretation as an Active Ascension of the Spirit -- Metaphysics and Aesthetics -- Interpreting Figurative Discourses Metaphysically -- Envoi -- Endnotes -- Part Two: APPREHENDING AND SAYING -- Essay III: On Being Enabled to Say What Is "Truly Real" -- Language and 'What Is Truly Real' -- Inquiring of Shinran -- Illusion, Deception, Lies and Foolishness -- Considering an Interpretation -- Hearing a Second Question -- Envoi -- Endnotes -- Essay IV: Apprehending Truths About Suffering -- Representative Eco-Ethical Claims -- Elements of A Mixed Theory of Truth -- Self-Referential Eco-Ethical Claims -- An Eco-Ethical Theory of Truth? -- Eco-Ethical Claims and Suffering -- Fictional Truths? -- Envoi -- Endnotes -- Part Three: ETHICS AND SUFFERING -- Essay V: Elements for an Ethics of Suffering -- Ordinary Senses of "Suffering" -- Special Senses of "Suffering" -- What is the Suffering in an Ethics of Suffering? -- What An Ethics of Suffering Tries to Address -- On Several Elements for An Ethics of Suffering -- Envoi -- Endnotes.