The Problem with Replacing Theology with Psychology
We think about our moral lives in a framework held over from medieval Christianity, and if we reject those assumptions then we need a new framework.
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Strangers to Ourselves
For my money the notion of self-estrangement is the fundamental insight of psychology.
How the Schocken Books collections changed Arendt scholarship
Hannah Arendt never wrote a “moral philosophy.” It is not hidden away in the archives or any of the recent collections of her work, nor in her unpublished lectures, letters, or journals. She was a political theorist who thought that moral philosophy requires a set of social relations that are inaccessible in the modern world. Yet as she has become more popular and is taught more and more often by moral philosophers, she is developing an unearned reputation as a moralist that perverts both what we should mean by moral philosophy and what she hoped to show us about the world we now inhabit.