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    Wisdom: A Humanistic Conception.John Kekes - 2020 - Oup Usa.
    Renowned philosopher John Kekes develops and defends a humanistic conception of wisdom as a personal attitude--one that guides how we face adversities and evaluate the often conflicting possibilities and limits of life in the context in which we live. The book is a radical departure from traditional works on wisdom. It stresses the humanistic, pluralistic, and personal aspects of wisdom. The book is a defense of philosophy as a humanistic discipline.
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    Against Liberalism.John Kekes - 2018 - Cornell University Press.
    Liberalism is doomed to failure, John Kekes argues in this penetrating criticism of its basic assumptions. Liberals favor individual autonomy, a wide plurality of choices, and equal rights and resources, seeing them as essential for good lives. They oppose such evils as selfishness, intolerance, cruelty, and greed. Yet the more autonomy, equality, and pluralism there is, Kekes contends, the greater is the scope for evil. According to Kekes, liberalism is inconsistent because the conditions liberals regard as (...)
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    Dialectics: A Controversy-Oriented Approach to the Theory of Knowledge.John Kekes - 1979 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 39 (4):603-604.
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    Moral Sensitivity.John Kekes - 1984 - Philosophy 59 (227):3 - 19.
    Most contemporary philosophers accept Kant's view1 that the central question of morality is what ought I to do. This gives choice a pivotal role, for choice is what one faces when the question has to be answered. Since what is chosen is an action, this view of morality—I shall call it the current view —is action-orientated. And since actions are directed towards people, the current view stresses altruism and universalizability. Morality is thus supposed to be activist and social. It is (...)
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  5. An Appraisal of the Paradigm Case Argument.John Kekes - 1971 - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 52 (4):581.
     
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    The problem of good.John Kekes - 1984 - Journal of Value Inquiry 18 (2):99-112.
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    Philosophy in the New Century.John Kekes - 2002 - Mind 111 (442):458-461.
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    Moral Tradition.John Kekes - 1985 - Philosophical Investigations 8 (4):252-268.
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  9. Moral Tradition and Individuality.John KEKES - 1989 - Philosophy 65 (252):234-236.
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    Pluralism in Philosophy: Changing the Subject.John Kekes - 2000 - Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.
    This original and ambitious book aims to change how we think about good lives. The perennial debates about good lives—the disagreements caused by conflicts between scientific, religious, moral, historical, aesthetic, and subjective modes of reflection—typically end in an impasse. This leaves the underlying problems of the meaning of life, the possibility of free action, the place of morality in good lives, the art of life, and human self-understanding as intractable as they have ever been. The way out of this impasse, (...)
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    Pluralism and the Value of Life.John Kekes - 1994 - Social Philosophy and Policy 11 (1):44-60.
    As an initial approximation, pluralism may be understood as the combination of four theses. First, there are many incommensurable values whose realization is required for living a good life. Second, these values often conflict with each other, and, as a result, the realization of some excludes the realization of others. Third, there is no authoritative standard that could be appealed to to resolve such conflicts, because there is also a plurality of standards; consequently, no single standard would be always acceptable (...)
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    A justification of rationality.John Kekes - 1976 - Albany: State University of New York Press.
    I "Things /a/I apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is looted upon the world, The hlood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of ...
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    Scepticism, rationalism, and language.John Kekes - 1971 - Metaphilosophy 2 (3):227–240.
  14. Disgust and Moral Taboos.John Kekes - 1992 - Philosophy 67 (262):431 - 446.
    Disgust is not a pleasant subject. It is perhaps partly for this reason that it has not been much discussed in philosophical literature, or, indeed anywhere else. Disgust has considerable moral significance however, and appreciating its significance will illuminate the present state of our morality. One may be led to this view by reflecting on several recent works on pollution. The pollution in question, of course, is not of the air, soil, or water, but that of people who have violated (...)
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  15. A Justification of Rationality.John Kekes - 1976 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 10 (4):284-286.
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    Fear and Reason.John Kekes - 2013 - Philosophy 88 (4):555-574.
    The subject of this paper is a particular kind of fear. The danger to which it is a response is the possibility that the evaluative dimension of life from which we derive the values by which we live is arbitrary. If it were arbitrary, nothing we value would be valuable. There are strong reasons both for and against this kind of fear. I am concerned with understanding these reasons and judging their strengths and weaknesses.
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    Rationality and coherence.John Kekes - 1974 - Philosophical Studies 26 (1):51 - 61.
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    The Dangerous Ideal of Autonomy.John Kekes - 2011 - Criminal Justice Ethics 30 (2):192-204.
    The ideal of autonomy has a positive and a negative aim. Its positive aim is to create the conditions in which more and more people can be more and more autonomous. Its negative aim is to prevent actions that cause serious harm and are normally both immoral and criminal. These two aims are incompatible. Increasing autonomy increases the frequency of crimes and decreasing the frequency of crimes requires decreasing autonomy. The incompatibility of these two aims has radical implications for much (...)
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  19. Physicalism and subjectivity.John Kekes - 1977 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 37 (June):533-6.
    This note is a reply to nagel's "what is it like to be a bat?" I argue that nagel is right in claiming that members of each species have a unique point of view due to physiological differences; no member of another species can have the same experiences. Nagel is wrong, However, In concluding from this truism that no objective account of experiences is possible. Such an account can give everything physicalism needs. What it cannot give, And what it was (...)
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    (1 other version)The Morality of Pluralism.John Kekes - 1993 - Princeton University Press.
    Controversies about abortion, the environment, pornography, AIDS, and similar issues naturally lead to the question of whether there are any values that can be ultimately justified, or whether values are simply conventional. John Kekes argues that the present moral and political uncertainties are due to a deep change in our society from a dogmatic to a pluralistic view of values. Dogmatism is committed to there being only one justifiable system of values. Pluralism recognizes many such systems, and yet (...)
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  21. Morality and Impartiality.John Kekes - 1981 - American Philosophical Quarterly 18 (4):295 - 303.
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    The Incompatibility of Liberalism and Pluralism.John Kekes - 1992 - American Philosophical Quarterly 29 (2):141 - 151.
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    Facing Evil.John Kekes - 1990 - Princeton University Press.
    Arguing that the prevalence of evil presents a fundamental problem for our secular sensibility, John Kekes develops a conception of character-morality as a response. He shows that the main sources of evil are habitual, unchosen actions produced by our character defects and that we can increase our control over the evil we cause by cultivating a reflective temper.
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  24. (1 other version)The Nature of Philosophy.John Kekes - 1980 - Philosophy 56 (215):126-128.
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    Contents.John Kekes - 1993 - In The Morality of Pluralism. Princeton University Press.
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    Chapter eleven. Some political implications of pluralism: The conflict with liberalism.John Kekes - 1993 - In The Morality of Pluralism. Princeton University Press. pp. 199-218.
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    Chapter five. The nature of reasonable conflict-resolution.John Kekes - 1993 - In The Morality of Pluralism. Princeton University Press. pp. 76-98.
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    Chapter six. The possibilities of life.John Kekes - 1993 - In The Morality of Pluralism. Princeton University Press. pp. 99-117.
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    Index.John Kekes - 1993 - In The Morality of Pluralism. Princeton University Press. pp. 225-227.
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  30. The moral significance of evil.John Kekes - 2009 - In Pedro Alexis Tabensky (ed.), The positive function of evil. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan.
     
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    Works Cited.John Kekes - 1993 - In The Morality of Pluralism. Princeton University Press. pp. 219-224.
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    The Enforcement of Morality.John Kekes - 2000 - American Philosophical Quarterly 37 (1):23 - 35.
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    Hard Questions: Facing the Problems of Life.John Kekes - 2019 - Oup Usa.
    In this book, John Kekes discusses the hard questions we all must face in the course of our lives. How should we respond to evil? Do we owe what our country asks of us? Does it make us better to be ashamed of what we have done? Is it always good to be true to who we are? Do good intentions justify bad actions? John Kekes argues that such questions are hard because reasonable answers to them (...)
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    Moral Wisdom and Good Lives.John Kekes - 2018 - Cornell University Press.
    In this profound and yet accessible book, John Kekes discusses moral wisdom: a virtue essential to living a morally good and personally satisfying life. He advances a broad, nontechnical argument that considers the adversities inherent in the human condition and assists in the achievement of good lives. The possession of moral wisdom, Kekes asserts, is a matter of degree: more of it makes lives better, less makes them worse. Exactly what is moral wisdom, however, and how should (...)
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    A Case for Conservatism.John Kekes - 2018 - Cornell University Press.
    In his recent book Against Liberalism, philosopher John Kekes argued that liberalism as a political system is doomed to failure by its internal inconsistencies. In this companion volume, he makes a compelling case for conservatism as the best alternative. His is the first systematic description and defense of the basic assumptions underlying conservative thought. Conservatism, Kekes maintains, is concerned with the political arrangements that enable members of a society to live good lives. These political arrangements are based (...)
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    Shame and Moral Progress.John Kekes - 1988 - Midwest Studies in Philosophy 13 (1):282-296.
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    Some Requirements of a Theory of Rationality.John Kekes - 1988 - The Monist 71 (3):320-338.
    The purpose of this paper is to discuss some fundamental problems which stand in the way of constructing an adequate theory of rationality. So the paper is primarily about problems, not solutions. Part of my point is that the problems are deep and the putative solutions shallow. In discussing these problems, I aim to get at the core of the difficulty they present, hence I shall ignore details, the twists and turns of arguments. I hope to achieve an overview, and, (...)
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    Essays on Explanation and Understanding.John Kekes - 1978 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 38 (3):428-431.
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  39. (1 other version)Facing Evil.John Kekes - 1991 - Philosophy 66 (258):536-538.
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  40. The Morality of Pluralism.John KEKES - 1993 - Philosophy 69 (270):505-507.
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  41. Pluralism and moral authority.John Kekes - 2003 - In Kim Chong Chong, Sor-Hoon Tan & C. L. Ten (eds.), The moral circle and the self: Chinese and Western approaches. Chicago, Ill.: Open Court.
     
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    Philosophy, historicism, and foundationalism.John Kekes - 1983 - Philosophia 13 (3-4):213-233.
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    The Professoriate and the Truth.John Kekes - 2004 - Philosophy of Education 60:17-28.
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    Recent trends and future prospects in epistemology.John Kekes - 1977 - Metaphilosophy 8 (2-3):87-107.
    Three basic problems in contemporary epistemology are discussed. The first is the conflict between foundationalists and fallibilists. The second is the problem of scepticism. The third is the question of what sort of considerations are relevant to justification. The recent literature is surveyed and some original contributions are offered.
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  45. The roots of evil.John Kekes - 2005 - Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
    Uses case studies of evil, the most serious of our moral Problems, to explain why people act with cruelty, greed, prejudice and fanatacism.
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    How Should We Live?: A Practical Approach to Everyday Morality.John Kekes - 2014 - Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
    What is your highest ideal? What code do you live by? We all know that these differ from person to person. Artists, scientists, social activists, farmers, executives, and athletes are guided by very different ideals. Nonetheless for hundreds of years philosophers have sought a single, overriding ideal that should guide everyone, always, everywhere, and after centuries of debate we’re no closer to an answer. In _How Should We Live?_, John Kekes offers a refreshing alternative, one in which we (...)
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    Moral Depth.John Kekes - 1990 - Philosophy 65 (254):439 - 453.
    Few would disagree that depth is an admirable, highly desirable, and yet rare quality. One would expect to find, therefore, that much has been written on the subject. But this is not so. Perhaps the topic appears forbidding, because the nature of depth is itself a deep and difficult question, since it forces those who ask it to decide what is ultimately worth caring about. Be that as it may, I shall venture on to this rarely explored ground. My strategy (...)
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  48. A Refutation of Solipsism.John Kekes - 1971 - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 52 (1):44.
     
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  49. Beliefs and Scepticism.John Kekes - 1969 - Philosophical Forum 1 (3):353.
     
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    Freedom.John Kekes - 1980 - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 61 (4):368-383.
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