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Finding Our Sea-Legs: Ethics, Experience and the Ocean of Stories

Will Buckingham

4.2/5 ( ratings)

When it comes to ethics, it seems that we are all at sea. Since the beginning, the philosophers have always dreamed of finally reaching solid ground, but their proofs and demonstrations and laws have failed to bring us into harbour. Incapable of defining virtue, we manage to tell tales about it; not quite sure what justice is, we still spin yarns about the just and the unjust. Casting the reader adrift onto the sea of stories, attentive to the changes in the winds and the tides, through both philosophy and storytelling, this book explores ethics not as a means of finding our way back home to a safe harbour, but instead as a way of acclimatising ourselves to life on the seas of uncertainty.

Language: English

Pages: 176

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Kingston University Press

Release: October 31, 2009

ISBN: 1899999485

ISBN 13: 9781899999484

Finding Our Sea-Legs: Ethics, Experience and the Ocean of Stories

Will Buckingham

4.2/5 ( ratings)

When it comes to ethics, it seems that we are all at sea. Since the beginning, the philosophers have always dreamed of finally reaching solid ground, but their proofs and demonstrations and laws have failed to bring us into harbour. Incapable of defining virtue, we manage to tell tales about it; not quite sure what justice is, we still spin yarns about the just and the unjust. Casting the reader adrift onto the sea of stories, attentive to the changes in the winds and the tides, through both philosophy and storytelling, this book explores ethics not as a means of finding our way back home to a safe harbour, but instead as a way of acclimatising ourselves to life on the seas of uncertainty.

Language: English

Pages: 176

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Kingston University Press

Release: October 31, 2009

ISBN: 1899999485

ISBN 13: 9781899999484

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