From Enlightenment to Receptivity Rethinking Our Values
From Enlightenment to Receptivity Rethinking Our Values
- ISBN 13:
9780190649647
- ISBN 10:
019064964X
- Edition: Reprint
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 11/01/2016
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary
Beginning with a critique of Enlightenment thinking that calls into question its denial of any central role to considerations of emotion and empathy, he goes on to show how a greater emphasis on these factors and on the receptivity that underlies them can give us a more realistic, balanced, and sensitive understanding of our core ethical and epistemological values. This means rejecting post-modernism's blanket rejection of reason and of compelling real values and recognizing, rather, that receptivity should play a major role in how we lead our lives as individuals, in how we relate to nature, in how we acquire knowledge about the world, and in how we relate morally and politically with others.