1st Edition
Exploring the World of Human Practice Readings in and about the Philosophy of Aurel Kolnai
354 Pages
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Central European University Press
354 Pages
by
Central European University Press
Aurel Kolnai was born in Budapest, in 1900 and died in London, in 1973. He was, according to Karl Popper and the late Bernard Williams, one of the most original, provocative, and sensitive philosophers of the twentieth century. Kolnai's moral philosophy is best described in his own words as intrinsicalist, non-naturalist, non-reductionist, which took its original impetus from Scheler's value... Read more
Preface, About the Contents of This Volume, Introduction, I. Papers by Kolnai, II. Papers about Kolnai’s Work, About the Contributors to this Volume, Indexes
Biography
Francis Dunlop is Honorary Lecturer of the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, and author of The Life and Thought of Aurel Kolnai (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002) and Early Ethical Writings of Aurel Kolnai (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004).
Zoltán Balázs is Associate Professor at the Péter Pázmány Catholic University, Budapest–Piliscsaba, and author of The Political Community (Budapest: Osiris, 2003) and Aurel Kolnai (Budapest: Új Mandátum, 2003).
