1st Edition
Philosophy, Ethics and a Common Humanity Essays in Honour of Raimond Gaita
Raimond Gaita: A brief biography Introduction 1. Gaita on recognizing the human Lars Hertzberg 2. The work of saintly love: the religious impulse in Gaita’s writing Stephen Mulhall 3. Insanity, crankiness and evil - and other ways of thinking the unthinkable Jonathan Glover 4. Gaita and Plato: goodness, love and beauty Christopher Cordner 5. Good and Evil and the criminal law Antony Duff 6. In search of goodness Marina Barabas 7. Human dignity between kitsch and deification Avishai Margalit 8. The meaning of what we have done: humanity, invisibility and law in the European settlement of Australia Martin Krygier 9. Primo Levi: an appreciation Robert Manne 10. "It goes deep with me": Plato’s Charmides on knowledge, self-knowledge and integrity M.M. McCabe 11. Romulus, My Father and the ‘virtues of truth’ Genevieve Lloyd 12. Form and content in Romulus, My Father Peter Coghlan 13. On adapting Romulus, My Father Nick Drake 14. A poem and its haunting Peter Steele. Index
Biography
Christopher Cordner is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His main area of interest is moral philosophy, including its Greek and Christian tributaries, and its overlap with aesthetics. He is currently writing a book called Simple Goodness.
