1st Edition
Teleological Structures in Human Life Essays in Honor of Anselm W. Müller
This is the first collection of essays devoted to the thought of Anselm W. Müller. It brings to the attention of the English-speaking world an influential and highly regarded philosopher who has made important contributions to a wide range of philosophical debates.
Arguably, Müller’s most important contributions are to the philosophy of action and virtue ethics. The contributors, who include friends, colleagues, and former students, engage with different aspects of Müller’s thought in these areas. Subjects include his interpretation of Aristotle and Wittgenstein, the teleology of thought and action, the Aristotelian distinction between poiēsis and praxis and its application to ethical upbringing, and the possibility of practical knowledge and practical truth.
Teleological Structures in Human Life will be of interest to researches and advanced students working on virtue ethics, philosophy of action, and practical reasoning.
Introduction
Christian Kietzmann
1. Wittgenstein and Aristotle at Oxford
Anthony Kenny
2. Anscombe on the Voluntary Character of Negligence
Jennifer A. Frey
3. Practical Reasoning and Practical Truth
A. W. Price
4. Conscience and Praxis
Gavin Lawrence
5. Having the Meaning of Life in View
Ulf Hlobil
6. Should Intro Ethics Make You a Better Person?
Katharina Nieswandt
7. Ethical Naturalism and the Guise of the Good
Dawa Ometto
8. On the Mystical Point of Virtue
Timo-Peter Ertz
9. Is Moral Education a Craft? Poiesis, Praxis, and Ethical Upbringing
Micah Lott
10. Certainty and Possibility
P. M. S. Hacker
11. Grounding and Support. Foundations, Coherence, and "Deep Disagreement" in Ludwig Wittgenstein
Andreas Krebs
Bibliography of A. W. Müller
Biography
Christian Kietzmann is Assistant Professor at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. He has published on the philosophy of action, the nature or normativity, philosophical anthropology, and the philosophies of Aristotle and G.E.M. Anscombe. His book Handeln aus Gründen als praktisches Schliessen came out in 2019.
"For several decades Anselm Müller’s name has been well known to those working in certain areas of practical philosophy, but very little of his output has been available in English. This excellent and welcome collection of papers discussing his contributions will help to change that situation. Müller has much to teach us about the work of Aristotle, Aquinas, Wittgenstein and Anscombe."
Jonathan Dancy, University of Texas at Austin, USA"Anselm Müller is one of the most perceptive, original, profound, and intellectually honest philosophers alive today. In particular, his work in ethics and on practical rationality is without peer in recent decades, and in addition constitutes an essential contribution to neo-Aristotelian thought. This volume is a very timely celebration of Müller’s philosophy, the first of its kind, with contributions by luminaries and new voices alike"
Roger Teichmann, St Hilda’s College, Oxford, UK
