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Radical hope : ethics in the face of cultural devastation. /Jonathan Lear.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher number: : International Book Distributors | : Flat No.-17, Prakash Apartment, Building No.-4405/2, Ansari Road, Daryagang, New Delhi.Publication details: , Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 2006.Description: 187 pages : illustrations. : 24cmISBN:
  • 9780674027466
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 871.01 LEA
Contents:
After this, nothing happened Ethics at the horizon Critique of abysmal reasoning
Summary: Shortly before he died, Plenty Coups, the last great Chief of the Crow Nation, told his story - up to a certain point. "When the buffalo went away the hearts of my people fell to the ground," he said, "and they could not lift them up again. After this nothing happened." It is precisely this point - that of a people faced with the end of their way of life - that prompts the philosophical and ethical inquiry pursued in Radical Hope. In Jonathan Lear's view, Plenty Coups's story raises a profound ethical question that transcends his time and challenges us all: how should one face the possibility that one's culture might collapse?"
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After this, nothing happened
Ethics at the horizon
Critique of abysmal reasoning

Shortly before he died, Plenty Coups, the last great Chief of the Crow Nation, told his story - up to a certain point. "When the buffalo went away the hearts of my people fell to the ground," he said, "and they could not lift them up again. After this nothing happened." It is precisely this point - that of a people faced with the end of their way of life - that prompts the philosophical and ethical inquiry pursued in Radical Hope. In Jonathan Lear's view, Plenty Coups's story raises a profound ethical question that transcends his time and challenges us all: how should one face the possibility that one's culture might collapse?"

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