A Critique of Affirmative Morality A Reflection on Death Birth and the Value of Life 1st Edition by Julio Cabrera ISBN 9788591617012 8591617010
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ISBN 10: 8591617010
ISBN 13: 9788591617012
Author: Julio Cabrera
A Critique of Affirmative Morality: A Reflection on Death, Birth, and the Value of Life by Julio Cabrera is a profound and provocative philosophical study that challenges the traditional assumptions of affirmative morality — the moral framework that implicitly regards existence and birth as inherently good. Cabrera constructs the foundation of a “negative ethics,” in which life, reproduction, and death are examined through the lenses of structural suffering, existential asymmetry, and moral responsibility for bringing new beings into a world of inevitable pain.
Table of contents:
PART I — On the Route to a Morality of Non-Being
1. On the Route to a Morality of Non-Being
2. From the Question on the Sense of Being to the Question on its Value
Value of being and oblivion
Ethics and ontology
3. Note 1: About the Radical Character of Thinking
4. Note 2: Being and Beings
5. Fragments of a Map for the Re-Conduction of Non-Being to the Structure of the World
PART II — Birth and Suicide: Arguments of a Radical and Anti-Skeptic Moralist
6. The Structural-Worldly Suffering and its Connection with Moral Disqualification
7. Note 3: Tribute to Schopenhauer
8. Procreation
9. Note 4: About Children and Works of Art
10. Suicide
11. Note 5: Esquisse for a Theory of Radical Non-Communication
12. Note 6: Leibniz and the Innocence of the Father
13. Note 7: Kant and the Antinomy of Suicide
PART III — Return to a Morality of Being After the Negative Reflection
14. The Main Points for a Critique of Affirmative Morality
15. Is Non-Affirmative Morality Even Possible? (A Short Survival Handbook)
16. Note 8: On the Impossible Conciliation Between Ethics and Politics
17. Note 9: A Logical-Ethical Paradox
PART IV — Negative Ethics and Contemporary Ethical Theories on Moral Responsibility Concerning Possible Children
18. Habermas and the Irrecoverable Asymmetry of Birth
(a) Two types of skepticism
(b) Habermas playing with children
19. Tugendhat and the Seriousness of the Negative
(a) The importance of being ernsthaftig
(b) The “negative” character of the fundamental empirical fact
20. R. M. Hare and “Possible People”
(a) The ambiguity of the utilitarian principle
The principle of gratification
The anesthetic principle
(b) Hare’s lack of radicality about the nature of a worth-living life
21. David Benatar and the Limits of Empirical Pessimism
Introduction
(a) Two notions of “possible being”
(b) Weakness of the “support asymmetries”
(c) Crossing argumentation between absence/presence and existing/not-existing dualisms
(d) Limits of the empiricist approach
(e) On the alleged independence between formal and material argumentation
TWO EPILOGUES
22. Epilogue — Summary of the Ethical Question in the Negative Approach
Steps toward Negative Ethics
Recent ideas on suicide
23. On the Unlimited Saying Yes (For and Against Nietzsche)
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