Men and manners

Kantian humanism, rhetoric and the history of ethics

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2160376
AutoresJeffrey Minson
Ano1989
Volume18
Fascículo2
Páginas191-220
Data de publicação1989-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEconomy and Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0308-5147 • E-ISSN: 1469-5766
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03085148900000010
OpenAlexW2071178241
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas15

Modern humanist ethics (more Kantian than is sometimes thought) is driven by a will-to-perfection in the form of ideals of self-transcendence. This perfectionism entails a (would-be) exclusion or marginalisation of certain elements of ‘pre-Enlightenment’ ethical cultures bearing on rhetoric, manners and self-empowerment. This essay provides a set of conceptual-historical arguments preliminary to reinserting these disparaged elements into the forefront of a progressive ethos which, it is claimed, cannot afford to be exclusively dependent on an amalgam of Enlightenment and Romantic ideals. Ethics is irreducible to the realm of ideal and values, and there are other sorts

Aesthetics · Enlightenment · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Ethos · Humanism · Ideal (ethics · Perfection · Rhetoric · Sociology · Theology · Transcendence (philosophy · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought · Philosophy