Principles and Persons: An Ethical Interpretation of Existentialism

by Frederick A. Olafson

Book Overview

Originally published in 1967. Many critics have claimed that existentialism has not produced any ethics, as distinct from the moralistic assertions of its individual proponents. Challenging this view, Professor Olafson demonstrates that Sartre, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty indeed worked out a powerful ethical theory and that their positions must be understood as deriving from a voluntarist concept of moral autonomy that can be traced beyond Nietzsche...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421430541
• ISBN13: 9781421430546
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.9"