Is Moral Philosophy Possible at All

Agnes Heller's Theory of Morals was to be composed of three parts: General Ethics, Moral Philosophy, and a Theory of Proper Behaviour. The first two were born; the third, however, before it was written, was rebaptized by the author who could not resist her inner compulsion to do so. It bears the title Ethics of Personality. This author does not conceal his one-sided preference for this last part of Heller's Theory of Morals which has only one imperative: `Be yourself! Follow your own destiny!'. At the same time he raises the question whether an ethics of personality does not contradict so much a general ethics (that simply describes the functioning of the moral) but a moral philosophy that tries to prescribe how people should behave. The author concludes that the only possibility of ethics in our age is an ethics of personality

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• The non-prescriptive aspect of ethics. Ágnes Heller's An Ethics of Personality

  Open Access•Andrea Vestrucci•Thesis Eleven•2014

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• On Ágnes Heller's aesthetic dimension

  Open Access•Fu Qilin, Fu Qi-Lin•Thesis Eleven•2014

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