Ethics and Time in the Philosophy of History: A Cross-Cultural Approach

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Natan Elgabsi (Åbo Akademi University, Sweden) Bennett Gilbert (Portland State University, USA)

Ethics and Time in the Philosophy of History

A Cross-Cultural Approach

Natan Elgabsi (Åbo Akademi University, Sweden), Bennett Gilbert (Portland State University, USA)

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Bloomsbury Academic
22 August 2024

Phenomenology & Existentialism; Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology; Ethics & moral philosophy

This interdisciplinary volume connects the philosophy of history to moral philosophy with a unique focus on time. Taking in a range of intellectual traditions, cultural, and geographical contexts, the volume provides a rich tapestry of approaches to time, morality, culture, and history.

By extending the philosophical discussion on the ethical importance of temporality, the editors disentangle some of the disciplinary tensions between analytical and hermeneutic philosophy of history, cultural theory, meta-ethical theory, and normative ethics. The ethical and existential character of temporality reveals itself within a collection that resists the methodological underpinnings of any one philosophical school. The book's distinctive cross-cultural approach ensures a wide range of perspectives with contributions on life and death in Japanese philosophy, ethics and time in Maori philosophy, non-traditional temporalities and philosophical anthropology, as well as global approaches to ethics.

These new directions of study highlight the importance of the ethical in the temporal, inviting further points of departure in this burgeoning field.

Edited by: Natan Elgabsi (Åbo Akademi University Sweden), Bennett Gilbert (Portland State University, USA)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781350279131
ISBN 10: 1350279137
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 22 August 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Natan Elgabsi is Postdoctoral Researcher at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. Bennett Gilbert is Assistant Professor at Portland State University, USA.

Reviews for Ethics and Time in the Philosophy of History: A Cross-Cultural Approach

A perennial challenge for existential anthropology is how to reconcile situated accounts of ethics, time, and personhood with universalizing accounts of the human condition. The diverse and penetrating essays in this volume show how such a cross-cultural approach to issues of temporality, historicity, and morality may be developed and applied. * Michael Jackson, Senior Research Fellow in World Religions, Harvard Divinity School, USA * Ethics and Time in the Philosophy of History brings together scholars from different philosophical traditions to provide fresh perspectives on fundamental issues. Its unifying concern is with humans as beings-in-time: what it means to be shaped historically and what obligations and possibilities may flow from understanding that shaping. The book deserves an audience right across the humanities. * Donald Bloxham, Richard Pares Professor of History, University of Edinburgh, UK * This timely collection brings to bear a welcome existential and hermeneutical approach to the contemporary issues of the philosophy of culture and history. Often rooted in personal experience, as good philosophy always is, its rich contributions shed new light on our ethical experience of time and mortality in this uncertain 21st century. * Jean Grondin, Professor of Philosophy, University of Montréal, Canada *