Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. About the Contents of This Volume ix
5. Introduction 1
6. I. PAPERS BY KOLNAI
7. What Is Politics About? 17
8. A Note on the Meaning of Right and Wrong 45
9. Erroneous Conscience 59
10. Are There Degrees of Ethical Universality? 83
11. The Concept of Practical Error 95
12. Actions and Inactions 109
13. Agency and Freedom 123
14. The Indispensability of Philosophy 143
15. II. PAPERS ABOUT KOLNAI’S WORK
16. 1. Introductory
17. Kolnai’s Mature Political Philosophy 159
18. The Ethical Theories of Aurel Kolnai 167
19. 2. Politics and Utopia
20. The Democratic Subversion of Political Liberty and Participation 179
21. Liberty, Equality, Nobility: Aurel Kolnai and the Moral Foundations of Democracy 193
22. Aurel Kolnai: A Political Philosopher Confronts the Scourge of Our Epoch 207
23. Aurel Kolnai and Utopia 219
24. 3. Ethics
25. Aims in Games and Moral Purposes 233
26. Kolnai and Kant on (Human) Dignity 251
27. Kolnai’s Dissertation Der ethische Wert und die Wirklichkeit: A “Completion” of Scheler’s Value-Ethics 267
28. The Nature and Scope of Ordinary Morality: Some Reflections in the Spirit of Aurel Kolnai 281
29. 4. Feeling and Emotion
30. Is Love Intertwined with Hatred? 299
31. Kolnai’s Idea of Emotional Presentation 313
32. Aurel Kolnai’s “Disgust”: A Source in the Art and Writing of Salvador Dalí 327
33. About the Contributors to This Volume 333
34. Indexes 335