| Title | : | Bad Faith: A Philosophical Memoir |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.75 (281 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1484121910 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 164 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-29 |
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An autobiographical account of a philosopher’s fall from innocence, Bad Faith relates the author’s discovery of the God-like nature of morality and his realization that a self-styled atheist such as himself could therefore no longer believe in it. The book describes in detail what the author’s life was like both immediately before and immediately after this “anti-epiphany.” Proceeding from secular morality to secular amorality, the transformation was every bit as traumatic for this earnest moralist as the loss of belief in God would be for a devout theist. Yet a new basis for living finally emerges.
Editorial : About the Author Joel Marks is professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of New Haven. He has edited two books of philosophical psychology – The Ways of Desire: New Essays in Philosophical Psychology on the Concept of Wanting and (with Roger T. Ames) Emotions in Asian Thought: A Dialogue in Comparative Philosophy – and is the author of four books on ethics – Moral Moments: Very Short Essays on Ethics, Ought Implies Kant: A Reply to the Consequentialist Critique, Ethics without Morals: In Defense of Amorality, and It’s Just a Feeling: The Philosophy of Desirism. Marks has also written numerous articles for professional journals and hundreds of op-eds and columns for newspapers and magazines. Since 2000 Marks has been a regular columnist for Philosophy Now magazine. His main areas of scholarly interest are theoretical and applied ethics, and both have come together recently in his thinking about animal ethics. Marks is currently a Bioethics Center Scholar
usefull. There are seventeen illustrations, seven full-page, all crisp and in excellent color; a selected bibliography; and a checklist of the exhibition, which featured several pieces not reproduced here. great book. The Lehman collection was started by Philip Lehman and substantially enlarged by his son Robert. A large portion of the book is devoted to documenting all the individuals who made furniture in the Charleston area but there are not any examples of their work identified in the book. 1545) to Felice Ficharelli (c. The European furniture-many Italian Renaissance pieces including an array of rather heavy cassone-occupies around 100 pages of this catalog.
The objects are generally of superior quality and attest to the Lehman's refined taste. So how could a smart person have been so mistaken for so long? The title of the book is the answer, "I had therefore lived in a semi-conscious state of self-delusion--what the existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre called bad faith" (75
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