Altruism or the Other as the Essence of Existence

A Philosophical Passage to Being Altruistic

von Iraklis Ioannidis

402 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Iraklis Ioannidis offers fresh, yet radical, philosophical insights into the much contested topic of altruism. Whereas the debate on altruism, since time immemorial, consists in trying to determine whether we are biologically altruistic or not, Ioannidis explores altruism otherwise. Following Nietzsche, he traces altruism to the phenomenon of promising or giving one's word. His analysis provokes us to think that our possibility to exist cannot be realized without this event. Ioannidis' passage to altruism attempts to perform altruism while exploring it. By reversing the axioms of classical phenomenology, what he calls unbracketing, he welcomes in his writing space any discourse, any human expression which could help the philosophical investigation.

• Themen: Philosophie und Religion Philosophie Philosophische Traditionen und Denkschulen Nach 1800 Phänomenologie und Existenzphilosophie
• ISBN: 9789004448384
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.03.2021
• Größe: 235 x 155 mm
• Verlag: Brill