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We all have moral beliefs. But what if one beleif conflicts with another? DePaul argues that we have to make our beliefs cohere, but that the current coherence methods are seriously flawed. It is not just the arguments that need to be considered in moral enquiry. DePaul asserts that the ability to make sensitive moral judgements is vital to any philosophical inquiry into morality. The inquirer must consider how her life experiences and experiences with literature, film and theatre have influenced her capacity for making moral judgments and attempt to ensure that this capacity is neither naive

Ethics, Modern --- Ethics, Modern - 20th century.

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The twentieth century brought enormous change to subjects such as language, metaphysics, ethics and epistemology. This volume covers the major developments in these areas and more.

Ethics, Modern - 20th century. --- Philosophy, Modern - 20th century. --- Philosophy & Religion --- Philosophy --- Philosophy, Modern - 20th century --- Philosophy, British --- Philosophy, American - 20th century

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In den 1960er Jahren wurde "Entwicklung" zu einem universalen Ziel und umkämpften Politikfeld im Spannungsverhältnis von Kaltem Krieg, Dekolonisierung und konkurrierenden Sozialismen. Die Regierung Tansanias setzte beim Aufbau eines eigenständigen Afrikanischen Sozialismus auch auf Expertise, Kredite und Stipendien aus Ost und West. Diese Unterstützung galt als Notwendigkeit, aber auch als Bedrohung, konnte es sich beim Entwicklungspersonal aus kapitalistischen und kommunistischen Ländern doch immer um "trojanische Pferde" handeln. Wie übersetzten sich die Rivalitäten und konkurrierenden Ideen tatsächlich in die Praxis? In globalhistorischer Perspektive diskutiert dieses Buch Felder, Akteure und konkrete Arenen der Entwicklungsarbeit anhand der entwicklungspolitischen Verflechtungen zwischen Tansania und den beiden deutschen Staaten. Auf der Grundlage umfangreicher neu erschlossener Aktenbestände in deutschen und tansanischen Archiven sowie über 100 Interviews zeichnet es die Handlungsspielräume in der globalen Entwicklungsarbeit multiperspektivisch nach und zeigt auf, wie visionäre Zukunftsentwürfe in Politik und Alltag immer mehr dem Primat ökonomischer Krisenbewältigung wichen. Tanzania's efforts to construct an independent "African socialism" were part of a global discussion about the royal road to development, the ambiguous role of capitalist "developmental assistance," and the nature of "solidarity" with communist states. The study discusses negotiative processes and day-to-day experiences amid the global tensions of the Cold War, decolonization, and competing socialisms.

HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century. --- African History. --- Development Policy. --- German History.

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In The Postcolonial African Genocide Novel, Chigbo Anyaduba examines fictional responses to mass atrocities occurring in postcolonial Africa. Through a comparative reading of novels responding to the genocides of the Igbo in Nigeria (1966-1970) and the Tutsi in Rwanda (1990-1994), the book underscores the ways that literary encounters with genocides in Africa's postcolonies have attempted to reimagine the conditions giving rise to exterminatory forms of mass violence. The book concretizes and troubles one of the apparent truisms of genocide studies, especially in the context of imaginative literature: that the reality of genocide more often than not resists meaningfulness. Particularly given the centrality of this truism to artistic responses to the Holocaust and to genocides more generally, Anyaduba tracks the astonishing range of meanings drawn by writers at a series of (temporal, spatial, historical, cultural and other) removes from the realities of genocide in Africa's postcolonies, a set of meanings that are often highly‐specific and irreducible to maxims or foundational cases. The book shows that in the artistic projects to construct meanings against genocide's nihilism writers of African genocides deploy tropes that while significantly oriented to African concerns are equally shaped by the representational conventions and practices associated with the legacies of the Holocaust.

History / Modern / 20th Century --- Literary Criticism / African --- Literary Criticism / Modern / 20th Century --- Literature --- History and criticism --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Evaluation of literature --- Criticism --- Literary style --- Appraisal --- Evaluation

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As long as we care about suffering in the world, says political philosopher Simona Forti, we are compelled to inquire into the question of evil. But is the concept of evil still useful in a postmodern landscape where absolute values have been leveled and relativized by a historicist perspective? Given our current unwillingness to judge others, what signposts remain to guide our ethical behavior? Surveying the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Western philosophical debates on evil, Forti concludes that it is time to leave behind what she calls "the Dostoevsky paradigm": the dualistic vision of an omnipotent monster pitted against absolute, helpless victims. No longer capable of grasping the normalization of evil in today's world—whose structures of power have been transformed—this paradigm has exhausted its explanatory force. In its place, Forti offers a different genealogy of the relationship between evil and power, one that finally calls into question power's recurrent link to transgression. At the center of contemporary evil she posits the passive attitude towards rule-following, the need for normalcy, and the desire for obedience nurtured by our contemporary mass democracies. In our times, she contends, evil must be explored in tandem with our stubborn desire to stay alive at all costs as much as with our deep need for recognition: the new modern absolutes. A courageous book, New Demons extends an original, inspiring call to ethical living in a biopolitical age.

Ethics, Modern -- 19th century. --- Ethics, Modern -- 20th century. --- Good and evil. --- Political science -- Philosophy. --- Power (Philosophy).