Philosophy, ethics and a common humanity
Subtitle: essays in honour of Raimond Gaita
By: edited by Christopher Cordner
Contributors: Gaita, Raimond, 1946-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780415546386; 9780203830000
Subjects: Ethics; Philosophy; Philosophical anthropology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Gaita on recognizing the human / Lars Hertzberg; title: The work of saintly love : the religious impulse in Gaita's writing / Stephen Mulhall; title: Insanity, crankiness, and evil, and other ways of thinking the unthinkable / Jonathan Glover; title: Gaita and Plato : goodness, love, and beauty / Christopher Cordner; title: Good and evil and the criminal law / Antony Duff; title: In search of goodness / Marina Barabas; title: Human dignity between kitsch and deification / Avishai Margalit; title: The meaning of what we have done : humanity, invisibility, and law in the European settlement of Australia / Martin Krygier; title: Primo Levi : an appreciation / Robert Manne; title: "It goes deep with me" : Plato's Charmides on knowledge, self-knowledge, and integrity / M.M. McCabe; title: Romulus, my father and the "virtues of truth" / Genevieve Lloyd; title: Form and content in Romulus, my father / Peter Coghlan; title: On adapting Romulus, my father / Nick Drake; title: A poem and its haunting / Peter Steele.