The Risk of Being: What It Means to Be Good and Bad

by Michael Gelven

Book Overview

The Risk of Being attempts to forge a new language and a new way of reasoning about what it is like to be good and bad by focusing on existential phenomena that reveal what it means to be good and bad. It is thus a work that cannot be located among or compared to the more traditional theories of ethics or morality. What distinguishes this inquiry is not only the use of existential themes, such as outrage, temptation, and corruption, but...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271017082
• ISBN13: 9780271017082
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"