What is courage and why is it one of the oldest and most universally admired virtues? How is it relevant in the world today, and what contemporary forms does it take? On Courage, the newest book in the Thinking in Action series, examines these questions and many more.
On Courage explores the ideas of Aristotle, Aquinas, and many later philosophers who have written about courage, and draws on classic and recent examples of courage in politics and fiction, including the German anti-Nazi "White Rose Movement," the modern phenomenon of "whistle-blowing," and Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage.
Series: Thinking in Action
What is courage and why is it one of the oldest and most universally admired virtues? How is it relevant in the world today, and what contemporary forms does it take? In this insightful and crisply written book, Geoffrey Scarre examines these questions and many more. He begins by defining courage,...
Published March 30th 2010 by Routledge
Series: Thinking in Action
Architecture is a philosophical puzzle. Although we spend most of our time in buildings, we rarely reflect on what they mean or how we experience them. With some notable exceptions, they have generally struggled to be taken seriously as works of art compared to painting or music and have been...
Published November 3rd 2008 by Routledge
Series: Thinking in Action
Can the internet solve the problem of mass education, and bring human beings to a new level of community? Drawing on a diverse array of thinkers from Plato to Kierkegaard, On the Internet argues that there is much in common between the disembodied, free floating web and Descartes' separation of...
Published October 30th 2008 by Routledge
Series: Thinking in Action
In a recent poll of practicing art critics, 75 percent reported that rendering judgments on artworks was the least significant aspect of their job. This is a troubling statistic for philosopher and critic Noel Carroll, who argues that that the proper task of the critic is not simply to...
Published October 13th 2008 by Routledge
Series: Thinking in Action
There is no escaping landscape: it's everywhere and part of everyone's life. Landscapes have received much less attention in aesthetics than those arts we can choose to ignore, such as painting or music – but they can tell us a lot about the ethical and aesthetic values of the societies...
Published October 12th 2008 by Routledge
Series: Thinking in Action
'This is a quite remarkable book, a pleasure to read. Not only is it clear and informative but also by turns witty, melancholic and insightful. The book is astonishingly erudite, but wears this learning so lightly and so charmingly that it is both easy and gripping to read.' Robert Eaglestone...
Published June 2nd 2008 by Routledge
