On Moral Law and Quest for Selfhood

Mohan Parasain (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

216 Seiten

2019
Routledge India (Verlag)
978-0-367-17727-0 (ISBN)

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This book offers an original intersection of concepts from Immanuel Kant‘s moral command ethics and Sören Kierkegaards existential ethics. The Kantian formulation of moral law is based on theoretical ground while Kierkegaardian ethics of the quest for selfhood views it as the very act of living. The present work provides an account of both these p

Mohan Parasain is an independent researcher based in New Delhi and is currently with the Union Legislature of India. He completed his PhD in Philosophy from Panjab University, Chandigarh, and MA and BA in Philosophy from the University of Pune and Gauhati University, Assam, India respectively. He taught philosophy in colleges affiliated to Gauhati University before joining the Parliament of India in 2004. His interests are ethics, political philosophy, classical and continental philosophy, philosophy of law and legislation. He occasionally writes poetry and is presently working on a book on ethics in governance.

Foreword S.P. Singh. Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction 1. Moral Imperative and Kant‘s Critical Philosophy 2. Kierkegaard and the Quest for Selfhood 3. Dialogue of Perspectives: Nietzsche, Kant, Kierkegaard, Bhagavad-Gita 4. Issues in Perspectives 5. Freedom in Framework 6. Traversing the Ethical Parallax. Bibliography. Index

Erscheinungsdatum	20.06.2019
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	0-367-17727-7 / 0367177277
ISBN-13	978-0-367-17727-0 / 9780367177270
Zustand	Neuware