
- 298 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Do good and evil exist? Absolutely. In this bracing book, the eminent Dutch philosopher Andreas Kinneging turns fashionable thinking on its head, revealing how good and evil are objective, universal, and unchangingâand how they must be rediscovered in our age. In mapping the geography of good and evil, Kinneging reclaims, and reintroduces us to, the great tradition of ancient and Christian thought. Traditional wisdom enables us to address the eternal questions of good and evil that confront us in both public and private life. Though it is common to accept uncritically the blessings of modernity and its intellectual sources, the Enlightenment and Romanticism, Kinneging shows that traditional thinking is richer and more realistic. Indeed, we see how, in more than a few respects, the Enlightenment and Romanticism brought not progress but deterioration. Kinneging skillfully reformulates and defends the insights of traditional thinking for today's readers, demonstrating how an objective morality is to be understood and how we can know what morality demands of us. At a time when the traditional virtues have practically disappeared from our language (that is, all but oneâ"tolerance"), he lays out the foundations of virtue and vice. Ultimately, Kinneging reveals the lasting significance of these seemingly archaic notionsâto our own lives, to our families, to our culture, and to civilization. This profound, award-winning work establishes Andreas Kinneging as one of our wisest moral philosophers.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Chapter 1: Leisure and Civilization
- Chapter 2: The Solid Darkness of the Enlightenment
- Chapter 3: Inclined to All Evil
- Chapter 4: Order Out of Chaos
- Chapter 5: Values
- Chapter 6: Honor and Conscience
- Chapter 7: Tolerance and Pseudo-Tolerance
- Chapter 8: Loyalty
- Chapter 9: Spiritual Capital
- Chapter 10: âWhy Some Are Called Good Menâ
- Chapter 11: Justice and Forgiveness
- Chapter 12: Justice and Love
- Chapter 13: Virtues, Duties, and Rights
- Chapter 14: A Vindication of the Moral Order
- Chapter 15: Haven in a Heartless World
- Chapter 16: âAnd the Two Shall Become One Fleshâ
- Chapter 17: Public Office and Moral Education
- About the Author and Translator
- Notes
- Index
- Copyright