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Auteur(s) : Rushdy, Ashraf H. A. (1961-....)
Titre(s) : Philosophies of gratitude [Texte imprimé] / Ashraf H.A. Rushdy
Publication : New York (N.Y.) : Oxford university press, copyright 2020
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xii-307 p.) ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr. Index
"Philosophies of Gratitude is a study of gratitude as a philosophical concept. It
explores what past philosophers from Aristotle to Kant have said about gratitude,
and examines what role the idea of gratitude has played in their philosophies. It
also looks at the three primary ways we think about gratitude - as an emotion we feel
in response to a gift or benefit, as an act we perform to express our thankfulness,
and as a virtuous disposition in which we are and feel ready to be grateful to the
world we inhabit. Like love and trust, gratitude is a way we react to other people
in our lives, sometimes for who they are (lovable or trustworthy) and sometimes for
what they do (act benevolently towards us). It is a way we feel and act towards others.
It is, in other words, a primary way we situate ourselves in relationships. Philosophies
of Gratitude examines the key historical moments when gratitude was an important philosophical
concept - in classical antiquity, in the early modern era, and in the Enlightenment
- in order to discover what gratitude meant for those who produced our fundamental
Western notions of ethics. It then examines the forms gratitude assumes - as a feeling,
an act, a disposition - in order to discern what role our emotions play in our ethical
responses to the world. Finally, it examines what we can say about ingratitude as
a response that usually strikes us as base, in other words, as a moment when a human
being fails to act morally, but also as a response that sometimes indicates a deeper
kind of ethical stand against injustice"
Sujet(s) : Gratitude
Indice(s) Dewey :
179.9 (23e éd.) = Vertus
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780197526873. - ISBN 019752687X. - ISBN 9780197526897. - ISBN 0197526896. -
ISBN 9780197526880. - ISBN 0197526888. - ISBN 9780197526866 (erroné). - ISBN 0197526861
(erroné)
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Table des matières : Cover ; Philosophies of Gratitude ; Copyright ; Dedication ; Contents ; Acknowledgments
; Introduction: The Questions of Gratitude ; Section One ; 1. Gratitude in the Classical
Worlds ; 2. Gratitude in the Seventeenth Century ; 3. Gratitude in the Early Eighteenth
Century ; 4. Gratitude in the Later Eighteenth Century ; Section Two ; 5. Grateful
Sentiment ; 6. Grateful Action ; 7. Grateful Being ; 8. Cosmic Gratitude ; 9.
Ingratitude ; Conclusion: The Meanings of Gratitude ; Index.
