Early Ethical Writings of Aurel Kolnai
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Translator's Introduction -- Translator's Preface -- ETHICAL VALUE AND REALITY -- Preface -- List of Works Consulted -- Introduction: The Problem of a Completely Valid Ethics and the Limits of Morality -- Chapter One: Ethical Value -- 1 Primary data of ethics -- 2 The phenomenological ethic of values -- 3 The bearer of value and the ethical end -- 4 The special place of ethical value -- 5 Conflict between ethical values -- Chapter Two: The Limits of the Ethical End -- 1 The presuppositions of adopting an end -- 2 Ideal and Reality -- 3 The moral suppression of need -- 4 Ethical Reform -- 5 Résumé on limitation -- Chapter Three: The Gradation of Ethical Value-Emphases -- 1 The order of values -- 2 The nature of emphasis and gradation -- 3 Gradations of emphasis and ethical freedom -- 4 Gradation in the individual moral act and the stratification of intention -- 5 The coming together of value-emphases -- 6 Gradation of emphasis and the finitude of the moral world -- Chapter Four: Some Criticisms of One-Sided Ethical Approaches -- Introduction -- 1 The Ethic of Stoicism -- 2 Practical value-monism from Kant to Marx -- 3 The ethic of the order of justice and the ethic of regulation -- 4 The ethical outlook of psychoanalysis -- Chapter Five: Gradation in the Types of Value-Experience -- Introduction: the opposition of value and reality -- 1 The experience of exclusion -- 2 The experience of coordination -- 3 The experience of incorporation -- 4 The experience of directness -- Chapter Six: Persons and Responsibility -- 1 Gradation in conduct -- 2 The meaning of responsibility -- 3 Personalistic ethics -- Concluding Remarks: The Possibility of an Ethics Close to Reality -- THE STRUCTURE OF MORAL INTENTION -- DUTY, INCLINATION AND "MORAL-MINDEDNESS -- Index