The Importance of Subjectivity

Selected Essays in Metaphysics and Ethics
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-959154-1
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 716 g

A selection of the best work by a widely admired British philosopher
Ranges widely over metaphysics, ethics, and the history of philosophy

Includes several previously unpublished papers

Timothy Sprigge was one of the leading exponents of philosophical idealism in the last fifty years. His scholarly work in the history of modern philosophy focused on Baruch Spinoza, William James, Josiah Royce, George Santayana, F. H. Bradley, Arthur Schopenhauer, Edmund Husserl, and Alfred North Whitehead: this eventually led to the construction of his own original system of metaphysics he called 'panpsychistic absolute idealism'. Idealism, long unfashionable, has been coming back into favour, and Sprigge's work has found a new readership. This selection of his finest essays ranges widely over metaphysics, ethics, and the history of philosophy: all the themes that he discusses are drawn together in his unique philosophical system, based upon his original theory of the nature of consciousness.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and advanced students of philosophy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sprigge, Timothy L. S.

McHenry, Leemon

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Part I: Consciousness and the Metaphysics of Experience
1: Orientations
2: What I Believe
3: The Privacy of Experience
4: Final Causes
5: The Importance of Subjectivity: An Inaugural Lecture
6: Is Consciousness Mysterious?
7: Consciousness
8: The Distinctiveness of American Philosophy
9: The World of Description and the World of Acquaintance
Part II: The Metaphysics of Time and the Absolute
10: The Unreality of Time
11: Ideal Immortality
12: Bradley and Russell on Relations
13: The Self and Its World in Bradley and Husserl
14: Absolute Idealism
15: Pantheism
Part III: Ethics, Animal RIghts, and the Environment
16: The Greatest Happiness Principle
17: Is the Esse of Intrinsic Value Percipi? Pleasure, Pain and Value
18: Metaphysics, Physicalism and Animal Rights
19: Vivisection, Morals and Medicine: Commentary From an Anti-Vivisectionist Philosopher
20: Non-Human Rights: An Idealist Perspective
21: Are There Intrinsic Values in Nature
22: An Idealist's Prayer for the World
Acknowledgements
Selected Bibliography of T. L. S. Sprigge
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Timothy L. S. Sprigge, Formerly University of Edinburgh

Edited by Leemon McHenry, University of California, Northridge