Penulis: John Kekes

‘Evil is the most serious of our moral problems. All over the world cruelty, greed, prejudice, and fanaticism ruin the lives of countless victims. Outrage provokes outrage. Millions nurture seething …

Controversies about abortion, the environment, pornography, AIDS, and similar issues naturally lead to the question of whether there are any values that can be ultimately justified, or whether values …

Moral imagination, according to John Kekes, is indispensable to a fulfilling and responsible life. By correcting a parochial view of the possibilities available to us and overcoming mistaken assumpti …

In this book, John Kekes discusses the hard questions we all must face in the course of our lives. Is there an absolute value that overrides all other considerations? Must we conform to prevailing co …

In this book, John Kekes discusses the hard questions we all must face in the course of our lives. Is there an absolute value that overrides all other considerations? Must we conform to prevailing co …

We must all make choices about how we want to live. We evaluate our possibilities by relying on historical, moral, personal, political, religious, and scientific modes of evaluations, but the values …

We must all make choices about how we want to live. We evaluate our possibilities by relying on historical, moral, personal, political, religious, and scientific modes of evaluations, but the values …

In this book John Kekes examines the indispensable role enjoyment plays in a good life. The key to it is the development of a style of life that combines an attitude and a manner of living and acting …

The Human Condition is a response to the growing disenchantment in the Western world with contemporary life. John Kekes provides rationally justified answers to questions about the meaning of life, t …

The Human Condition is a response to the growing disenchantment in the Western world with contemporary life. John Kekes provides rationally justified answers to questions about the meaning of life, t …

"Evil is the most serious of our moral problems. All over the world cruelty, greed, prejudice, and fanaticism ruin the lives of countless victims. Outrage provokes outrage. Millions nurture seet …

What is your highest ideal? What code do you live by? We all know that these differ from person to person. Artists, scientists, social activists, farmers, executives, and athletes are guided by very …

Arguing that the prevalence of evil presents a fundamental problem for our secular sensibility, John Kekes develops a conception of character-morality as a response. He shows that the main sources of …

In this study, John Kekes develops the view that good lives depend on maintaining a balance between one’s moral tradition and individuality. Our moral tradition provides the forms of good lives and t …

In this book, renowned philosopher John Kekes develops and defends a humanistic conception of wisdom as a personal attitude–one that can guide how we face adversities and evaluate the often conflict …

In this book, renowned philosopher John Kekes develops and defends a humanistic conception of wisdom as a personal attitude–one that can guide how we face adversities and evaluate the often conflict …

Moderate Conservatism: Reclaiming the Center by John Kekes is a response to attacks on the United States’ 300-year-old constitutional democracy by extremists on the left and the right. It makes a rea …

Moderate Conservatism: Reclaiming the Center by John Kekes is a response to attacks on the United States’ 300-year-old constitutional democracy by extremists on the left and the right. It makes a rea …