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The Ethics of Energy William James's Moral Philosophy in Focus

:	Sergio Franzese
:	The Ethics of Energy William James's Moral Philosophy in Focus
:	Walter de Gruyter GmbH& Co.KG
:	9783110327830
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:	CHF 137.10
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:	20. und 21. Jahrhundert
:	English

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William James's moral philosophy is neither a remaking of utilitarianism nor it is a theory of values as it is assumed by the majority of his interpreters. Instead James offers an ethical view consistently arising out of valorization of energy of his days, and effecting a counter-tendency to the two great popular scientific currents of the 19th century: the universalizing of Darwinism and the pessimistic ideologies of social entropy. James's ethics moves away from the traditional idealistic or utilitarian grounds and takes place against the background of an up-and-coming philosophical anthropology hinged on the primacy of action. Human activity, however, needs to be understood in relation to Energy as the fabric of the universe pervading the whole spectrum of being in a continuum in which humanity and divinty are strictly intertwined.

	ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS	5
	Summary	7
	List of Abbreviations for the Works of William James	8
	Introduction	9
	William James’s Moral Philosophy in Focus	17
	1. “The Moral Philosophy and the Moral life”: a Misunderstanding	17
	2. Idealism and Utilitarianism: the Teleological Question	24
	3. Moral Experience and Moral Philosophy	32
	4. From Moral Philosophy to Ethics	48
	The Anthropological Question	55
	1. James and Philosophical Anthropology	57
	2. James’s Overcoming of Darwinism. The Microcosmic View	77
	3. Psychology as Anthropology. Mind, Consciousness and Instinct	87
	4. The Primacy of Action	105
	Habits and Ethics	111
	1. Habits and Emotions. Bain’s Moralist’s Psychology	112
	2. Individual and Society. James’s Philosophical Psychology	117
	3. The Function of Habit	131
	4. Habit and Ethics	135
	5. Towards an Ethics of Energy	149
	The Question of Energy	151
	1. The Energetic Self	151
	2. The Age of Energy	154
	3. James and Energy	167
	The Ethics of Energy	187
	1. The Energies of Men	187
	2. The Unseen Universe. A Religion of Energy	218
	Bibliography	230
	Index	240