A world without why /
Geuss, Raymond.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-256) and index.
Goals, origins, disciplines -- Vix intellegitur -- Marxism and the ethos of the twentieth century -- Must criticism be constructive? -- The loss of meaning on the left -- Authority: some fables -- A note on lying -- Politics and architecture -- The future of theological ethics -- Did Williams do ethics? -- The wisdom of Oedipus and the idea of a moral cosmos -- Who was the first philosopher? -- A world without why.
Philosophy
Philosophy, Modern
Optimism.
Ethics.