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Author:   Alexander Badman-King (University of Exeter, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367406035

ISBN 10:   0367406039
Pages:   204
Publication Date:   25 May 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Moral knowledge (‘wisdom’) as the purpose of philosophy and life PART I: Philosophy 2. Plato and Aristotle on the nature of wisdom 3. Moderate realism as the epistemic and metaethical basis of wisdom 4. An amalgamation of philosophy and anthropology as the best method for gaining wisdom 5. The necessity of aesthetics and evaluation, and the pre-eminence of narrative in ‘living-with’ PART II: Life 6. Purposiveness amongst living things as a focus of wisdom and the usefulness of fringe cases for acquiring wisdom 7. The inevitability of doing harm, the importance of feeling bad and the central role of honesty and courage 8. An effort to outline an attitude of steady attention, poignancy and good humour in the face of death, as constitutive of wisdom

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Alexander Badman-King is an associate lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology at the University of Exeter, UK, where he is also a member of the Exeter Anthrozoology as Symbiotic Ethics working group.

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