Summary
Adela Cortina: Ethics of the minimum
Introduction to practical philosophy
The author - representative of contemporary Spanish philosophy, professor of ethics and ethical activist - with her "ethics of the minimum" tries to penetrate into the moral, legal, political and religious area, into the area of practical philosophy. "Practical knowledge", according to Adela Cortina, includes three important questions: the question of happiness, justice and legitimacy of government. The basic chapters are: I. The field of ethics, II. The problem of foundation, III. Ethics and politics. One moral for democracy and IV. Ethics without religion? In the epilogue, the author deals with the concepts of virtue and happiness, giving a cross-section of the understanding of the dimensions of "acting well" and "being happy" from the Greek philosophers to Jürgen Habermas and Karl-Ott Apel.
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