Attending: An Ethical Art Volume 82

by Warren Heiti

Attending - patient contemplation focused on a particular being - is a central ethical activity that has not been recognized by any of the main moral systems in the European philosophical tradition. That tradition has imagined that the moral agent is primarily a problem solver and world changer when what might be needed most is a witness. Moral theory has been agonized by dualism - motivation is analyzed into beliefs and desires, descriptions of facts...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0228006120
• ISBN13: 9780228006121
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 488 Pages