Moral Phenomena by Nicolai Hartmann
Since the nineteenth century, moral philosophy in the West ern world has been dominated by utilitarianism, Kantianism, and relativism. Only a few philosophers have been able to escape from this Procrustean bed. Foremost among these few is Nicolai Hartmann (1882-1950). Together with Henri Bergson and Martin Heidegger, Hartmann was instrumental in restoring metaphysics. Hartmann's metaphysics differs mark edly from that of both Bergson and Heidegger, in his indebted ness to Plato.
Nicolai Hartmann was born in 1882 in Riga, Latvia, of German parents. He studied philosophy and classics, first in St. Petersburg and later in Marburg, where he was appointed to a chair of philosophy in 1920. In 1931, after a short spell at the University of Cologne. Hartmann was offered the prestigious chair of philosophy by the University of Berlin, where he lectured until the end of the war, untainted by Nazism. From 1945 until his death in 1950 he held a chair of philosophy at the University of Gottingen. Andreas A.M. Kinneging is associate professor in legal philosophy at the University of Leiden, and author of several works in normative theory and intellectual history, including Aristocracy. Antiquity, and History: Classicism in Political Thought, published by Transaction.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780765809094 |
| ISBN 10 | 0765809095 |
| Title | Moral Phenomena |
| Author | Nicolai Hartmann |
| Series | Ethics Series |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Inc |
| Year published | 2002-01-31 |
| Number of pages | 394 |
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