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Adversity, Wisdom, and Exemplarism

verfasst von: Ian James Kidd

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According to a venerable ideal, the core aim of philosophical practice is wisdom. The guiding concern of the ancient Greek, Indian, and Chinese traditions was the nature of the good life for human beings and the nature of reality. Those concerns converge in a foundational conception of wisdom as living a good – ‘flourishing’, ‘consummate’ – life, guided by a deep understanding of fundamental truths about our situation within the wider order of things. Wisdom manifests in ways of experiencing and engaging with the world, shaped by deep understanding of truths about it, and our relations to it. …

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Alasdair Macintyre, Dependent Rational Animals: Why Human Beings Need The Virtues (Chicago: Open Court, 1999), p. 8 f.

Macintyre, Dependent Rational Animals, p. 1 f.

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The intrinsic vulnerability of human beings to affliction and painful dependence as it manifests in experiences of somatic illness is explored by Havi Carel, Phenomenology of Illness (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016) and Ian James Kidd ‘Phenomenology of Illness, Philosophy, and Life’, Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 62 (2017): 56–60.

Carol Gilligan, In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women’s Development, revised edition (Harvard: Harvard University Press, 2009), p. 82. See further Marilyn Friedman, ‘Feminism in Ethics: Conceptions of Autonomy’, in Miranda Fricker and Jennifer Hornsby (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Feminism and Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 205–224.

See Eva Feder Kittay, Love’s Labour: Essays on Women, Equality, and Dependency (New York: Routledge, 1999).

See Linda Zagzebski, Exemplarist Moral Theory (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017).

See Barbara Ehrenreich, Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World (London: Granta, 2009).

Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and its Metaphors (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991), p. 3.

See, inter alia, Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom (New York: Basic Books, 2006); Havi Carel, ‘Virtue without Excellence, Excellence without Health’, Aristotelian Society: Supplement 90.1 (2016): pp. 237–253; [redacted].

See Alessandra Tanesini, ‘Teaching Virtue: Changing Attitudes’, Logos & Episteme 7.4 (2016): pp. 503–527.

See Craig T. Palmer, Ryan O. Begley, and Kathryn Coe, ‘Saintly Sacrifice: The Traditional Transmission of Moral Elevation’, Zygon 48.1 (2013): 107–127. (Quotations from p. 108.)

Interestingly, a standard pattern emerges in many exemplarist traditions. After an initial narrative describing an exemplar’s character and life, there emerge texts with more argumentative and style and theoretical content – discourses and treatises, say. [redacted].

Mark 14.32–36.

Mark 15.34.

Confucius, Analects: With Selections from Traditional Commentaries, translated by Edward Slingerland (Indianapolis: Hackett, 2003), § 6.3.

Confucius, Analects, § 6.3.

Amy Olberding, ‘The Consummation of Sorrow: An Analysis of Confucius’ Grief for Yan Hui’, Philosophy East and West 54.3 (2004): 279–301.

Maha-parinibbana Sutta: Last Days of the Buddha, trans. Sister Vajira and Francis Story, 2.28–30.

Maha-parinibbana Sutta, 1.25.

Arthur Frank, At the Will of the Body: Reflections on Illness (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2002), pp. 14 and 5.

Amy Olberding, ‘Confucius’ Complaints and the Analects’ Account of the Good Life’, Dao 12 (2013): 417–440.

Manyul Im, ‘A Good Life, an Admirable Life, or an Uncertain Life’, Dao 14 (2015): 573–577. Quotation from p. 576.

Michael D.K. Ing, ‘The Limits of Moral Maturity’, Dao 14 (2015): 567–572. Quotations from pp. 571 and 572, respectively.

Olberding, ‘Confucius’ Complaints and the Analects’ Account of the Good Life’, p. 439.

Titel: Adversity, Wisdom, and Exemplarism
verfasst von: Ian James Kidd
Publikationsdatum: 29.01.2018
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in: The Journal of Value Inquiry / Ausgabe 4/2018
Print ISSN: 0022-5363
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-0492
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10790-017-9621-x

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