Living Without Philosophy: On Narrative, Rhetoric, and Morality

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SUNY Press, 1 sty 1998 - 292
Living Without Philosophy argues that we do not need ethical theories, rules, and principles to decide what is right. Instead, particular cases can be judged by a detailed description of the relevant circumstances. When our judgments differ, we can decide how to act by deliberating under fair conditions. The author provides both a philosophical argument for this position and readings of literary texts in which moral theorists are portrayed as concrete characters. These works include Plato's Protagoras, selections from the Gospels and Dante, Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, the debate between Erasmus and Luther, Erasmus's Praise of Folly, Shakespeare's King Lear, Nabokov's Lolita, and Martin Luther King's Letter from a Birmingham Jail. Thus, Levine offers essentially a moral argument for the humanities, discussing the implications not only for ethics, but also for theology, law, politics, and education.

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Moral Judgment
13
Agreement
59
A Philosopher Encounters a Humanist
83
Instructive Tragedy Ancient and Modern
123
Religion versus Theology
145
Humanists and Scholastics in the Renaissance
179
The Wise Fool
205
The Beloved Community
237
Index
287
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Peter Levine is a Research Scholar at the Institute for Public Policy, University of Maryland. He is also the author of Something to Hide, and Nietzsche and the Modern Crisis of the Humanities, also published by SUNY Press.

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