A novel approach to virtue theory is explored, emphasizing the role of emotions in moral philosophy. The author presents a framework that integrates emotional experiences with ethical decision-making, challenging traditional views. This fresh perspective aims to deepen the understanding of virtues by highlighting how feelings influence moral judgments and actions. Through engaging arguments and examples, the book invites readers to reconsider the foundations of ethics in relation to emotional intelligence.
"In The Two Greatest Ideas, Linda Zagzebski tells the history of two hugely impactful ideas and their crucial role in shaping human culture over the last two thousand years. These ideas, Zagzebski argues, underlie virtually all of the intellectual innovations of human civilization, yet are so simple they are almost invisible. The first idea is that the human mind is capable of grasping the universe. The second is that the human mind is capable of grasping itself. Based on a series of lectures given in 2018 at Soochow University, Zagzebski offers an ambitious, big-history narrative of the emergence and influence of these two ideas and the tension and conflict between them. The idea that the human mind can grasp the universe had a significant influence on culture in many parts of the world in the first millennium BCE, giving rise to physics, mathematics, philosophy, and most major religions. In the early modern period, however, particularly in the West, the idea that the human mind can grasp itself supplanted some of the wider focus and popularity of the idea that human mind can grasp the universe, revealing something important was missing, namely, the subjectivity of minds. This transformation was reflected in radical changes in philosophy, political thought, art, literature, religion, and science. In this book, Zagzebski provides a new frame for understanding the intellectual underpinnings of Western culture and thought through an illuminating exploration of the history and contemporary legacy of these two great ideas (including reflections on their history in Eastern thought). Zagzebski also reveals the deep roots of some familiar divisions in contemporary culture (e.g. autonomy versus harmony, and rights versus responsibilities) as they relate to the great ideas. The book then concludes with a discussion of what reconciling the two great ideas might entail, including the possibility of a third great idea"-- Provided by publisher
This illuminating guide places key issues and debates in the philosophy of
religion in their historical contexts, highlighting the conditions that led to
the development of the field.
Linda Trinkaus Zagebski explains and defends the idea that the God of the monotheistic religions does not only know all objective facts, but he also perfectly grasps the conscious states of all conscious beings from their own point of view. She calls that property omnisubjectivity. God not only knows that you are in pain, for instance, but is present in your pain, grasping your pain the way you grasp it. The same point applies to every feeling, every belief, every thought, every desire you have. It also applies to the conscious states of animals. She argues that this attribute is entailed by attributes like omniscience and omnipresence, and is presupposed in common practices of prayer. Zagzebski proposes three models of omnisubjectivity, with special attention to the empathy model, where God's grasp of our conscious states is analogous to the way we empathize with someone else's thought or feeling. She shows how the attribute of omnisubjectivity has implications of the doctrines of the Trinity and the Incarnation, and argues that it means that subjectivity and intersubjectivity are deep in the universe, deeper than the universe objectively described.
"Virtue ethics has attracted a lot of attention and there has been considerable interest in virtue epistemology as an alternative to traditional approaches in that field. This book fills a gap in the literature for a text that brings virtue epistemologists and virtue ethicists together."-- Back cover.
Książka Lindy Zagzebski to historyczne i analityczne ujęcie filozofii religii.
Autorka pokazuje, jakie okoliczności doprowadziły do narodzin i rozwoju tej
dyscypliny, a także wyodrębnia i analizuje główne problemy, wynikające z
relacji między rozumem, wiarą i etyką. W przystępny sposób przybliża
Czytelnikowi zagadnienie istnienia Boga, problem zła, determinizm, fatalizm,
kwestie śmierci i życia pozagrobowego, zachęcając go do samodzielnych
poszukiwań i wyrobienia sobie własnego zdania.
