Cooling Sun: An Existentialist Ethics: An Existentialist Ethics

Author: Hazel E. Barnes
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Publication Date: 2004-01-01
Features: This book provides a systematic and in-depth elaboration on the content of existentialist ethics. Through the rigorous theoretical exploration presented by the author, what is revealed is not only a picture of existentialist ethical theory but also a historical analysis of the impact of existentialism on modern cultural values. Therefore, it also reflects the author's sense of social responsibility and moral sentiment. The title of this book is "An Existentialist Ethics," and the emphasis on the indefinite article "an" is due to two reasons: First, what I call "existentialist ethics" is not necessarily the existentialist ethics in question, which is not entirely true. Without a doubt, we must distinguish between an existentialist Christian ethics originating from Kierkegaard's existentialism and an existentialist ethics based on Heidegger's existential philosophy, and even between the former and an ethics that adopts Sartre's non-dogmatic premises.