Modernities: Historie, Beliefs and Values

ContentsPrefacePart One: HistoriesEssay I: Modernities and HistoriesExplanatory and Interpretive AccountsDescartes versus Plato, Augustine, and MontaigneTwo Modernities: Descartes and MontaigneThe Disputed Origins of ModernityThe Frames of Our Histories and ModernitiesEnvoi: The Remaining TensionEndnotesEssay II: Internationalizing LawIndividual Autonomy and the Community of ValuesThe Task of Peace TodayLimitations and the Capacities of the IndividualContingency and Individual AutonomyEnvoi: The Reflexive TriadEndnotesEssay III: Education and NatureLiving According to NatureNature as the Observable UniverseNature as the Human MilieuNature as Human NatureEnvoi: The Nature in NatureEndnotesPart Two: BeliefsEssay IV: Modernities and BeliefsSubjectivationFrom Procedural to Instrumental RationalityModern Origins of the Transformation of the SelfLockean Belief and Substantive ReasonSubstantive Reason and the Obligations of BeliefRationality and InterpretationEnvoi: Reason, Belief, and KnowledgeEndnotesEssay V: Visual Forms in Hogarth's AestheticsAnalyzing BeautyDisinterestednessAesthetic Attitude, Taste, and BeautyAppearance, Reality, and Natural ContinuaModernity's Realist Backgrounds and the AestheticEnvoi: Realism After ModernityEndnotesEssay VI: Bolzano's RealismsKant and the Subjectivisation of AestheticsBolzano and the Theory of the BeautifulElucidating Bolzano's ViewsAppraising Bolzano's AestheticsTwo Critical QuestionsEnvoi: Towards Realistic PhenomenologiesEndnotesPart Three: ValuesEssay VII: Modernities and ValuesMoral SourcesMoral FrameworksMoral IdentitiesMoral ArticulacyThe Best Account PrincipleEnvoi: Stepping BackEndnotesEssay VIII: Cultural and Religious IdentitiesCultural and Religious Questions Now?Difficulties With Talk of Identity TodayDisambiguating Talk of IdentityReformulating the QuestionsEnvoi: Fresh QuestionsEndnotesEssay IX: Personal SovereigntiesRealists and LegalistsWhat Persons AreWho Persons ArePersons as Essentially SovereignEnvoi: ContingenciesEndnotes