Robert B. Louden

The World We Want: How and Why the Ideals of the Enlightenment Still Elude Us

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The World We Want compares the future world that Enlightenment intellectuals had hoped for with our world at present. How and why are the two worlds so different? To what extent is (and isnt) our world the world they wanted, and to what extent do we today still want their world? How large is the gap between Enlightenment ideals and present reality, and why is it so large? Louden explores these questions and advances an argument that the widespreadEnlightenment assumption that external institutional changes lead to internal attitudinal changes is not well supported by historical experience-and that many of the ideals advocated by the Enlighten… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-19-532137-1
EAN: 9780195321371
Produktnummer: 22677687
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Seitenangabe: 344 S.

Über den Autor

Robert B. Louden is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine. He is the author of Kant's Impure Ethics: From Rational Beings to Human Beings (OUP, 2000) and Morality and Moral Theory: A Reappraisal and Reaffirmation (OUP, 1992), co-editor and translator of Kant, Anthropology, History, and Education (CUP, 2007) and Kant, Lectures on Anthropology (CUP, 2008), translator of Kant's Anthropologyfrom a Pragmatic Point of View(CUP, 2006), editor of Schleiermacher's Lectures on Philosophical Ethics (CUP, 2002), and co-editor of The Greeks and Us (University of Chicago Press, 1996).