Attending: An Ethical Art by Warren Heiti (English) Paperback Book

Description: Attending 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 and dissatisfactions with them, while action is represented as an effort to lessen dissatisfaction by altering the empirical world. In Attending Warren Heiti traces an alternative genealogy of ethics, drawing from the Platonism recovered by Simone Weil and developed in the work of Iris Murdoch, John McDowell, and Jan Zwicky. According to Weil, virtue is knowledge, knowledge is embodied, and the knower is nested in an ecosystem of relationships. Instead of analyzing and solving theoretical problems, Heiti aims to clarify the terrain by setting up objects of attention from more than one discipline, including not only philosophy but also literature, psychology, film, and visual art.The traditional picture captures one important type of ethical activity: faced with a moral problem, one looks to a general rule to furnish the solution. But not all problems conform to this model. Heiti offers an alternative: to see what is needed, one attends to the particular being. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Warren Heiti is professor of philosophy and liberal studies at Vancouver Island University. Review "Attending is a superb work in moral philosophy. It is complex, generous, difficult, expansive, and at times genuinely revelatory. It is also very demanding, in the best possible sense. A truly remarkable book." Sarah Clift, University of Kings College and author of Committing the Future to Memory: History, Experience, Trauma"Attending addresses a significant gap in the literature on attention. The way Heiti places important twentieth-century authors in conversation with each other is original and well done. This is a very rich and beautiful book." Sophie Bourgault, University of Ottawa and co-editor of Simone Weil, Beyond Ideology? Promotional Why learning to attend is needed for living well. Review Quote "Attending is a superb work in moral philosophy. It is complex, generous, difficult, expansive, and at times genuinely revelatory. It is also very demanding, in the best possible sense. A truly remarkable book." Sarah Clift, University of Kings College and author of Committing the Future to Memory: History, Experience, Trauma Promotional "Headline" Why learning to attend is needed for living well. Details ISBN0228006139 Author Warren Heiti Short Title Attending Pages 488 Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 0228006139 ISBN-13 9780228006138 Format Paperback Publication Date 2021-07-15 Subtitle An Ethical Art UK Release Date 2021-07-15 Imprint McGill-Queens University Press Place of Publication Montreal Country of Publication Canada Illustrations 1 photo, 3 diagrams, 1 table Publisher McGill-Queens University Press Series McGill-Queens Studies in the History of Ideas Alternative 9780228006121 DEWEY 170 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:133846275;

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