{"product_id":"the-ethics-of-courage-jacques-m-chevalier-9783031327421","title":"The Ethics of Courage: Volume 2: From Early Modernity to the Global Age","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis two-volume work examines far-reaching debates on the concept of courage from Greek antiquity to the Christian and mediaeval periods, as well as the modern era. Volume 1 explains how competing accounts of \u003ci\u003eepistêmê\u003c\/i\u003e, rational wisdom, and truth dominated classical antiquity. Early Christian and mediaeval thinkers, in contrast, favoured fortitude founded on faith and fear of God over philosophical reasoning left to its own devices.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVolume 2 turns to theories of courage from the early modern period to the present. It shows how the twin laws of \u003ci\u003epolis\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ephysis\u003c\/i\u003e are at the heart of post-medieval thought. Courage is found at the crossroads of love and dread, freedom and fate, happiness and suffering, as well as power and submission to the ruling order. The later influence of evolutionism, existentialism, and the social and natural sciences on moral philosophy is also addressed at some length. The protection of people's best interests, the passions and powersof the human will, and the rule of active energy in all aspects of life supplant courage formerly viewed through the lens of reason or faith, or a combination of the two.\u003c\/p\u003e These new ideas, paradoxically, herald the end of the ethics of courage. They also undermine the courage of ethical thinking. Courage is no longer an end in itself, nor is it a means to happiness \"at the end.\" Regardless of what Gandhi, Tillich, and Foucault have to say about the topic, late modernity and the global age witness a marked loss of interest in courage as an idea worthy of conceptual investigation. Debates about the moral implications of courage give way to the value-free science of resilience, which studies how people can recover from past trauma and find wellness, primarily in the realm of \u003ci\u003ephysis\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jacques M. Chevalier\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 303132742X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783031327421\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/18\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 498\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.67lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 1.13d","brand":"Jacques M. Chevalier","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44790224814335,"sku":"9783031327421","price":129.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c7741595-386b-4d61-83cb-766e8297691a.jpg?v=1707288315","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-ethics-of-courage-jacques-m-chevalier-9783031327421","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}