Ethics, Value, and Reality

Ethics, Value, and Reality is a collection of essays written after Aurel Kolnai settled in England in 1955. These essays from Kolnai's mature years sit atop a remarkable gestation of moral and political thinking. At the heart of his thought is the special role of privilege in a good social order and the idea of emotion as cognitive. Kolnai relies heavily on the work of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century value theorists such as Alexius Meinong, Nicolai Hartmann, and Max...
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Ethics, Value, and Reality is a collection of essays written after Aurel Kolnai settled in England in 1955. These essays from Kolnai's mature years sit atop a remarkable gestation of moral and political thinking. At the heart of his thought is the special role of privilege in a good social order and the idea of emotion as cognitive. Kolnai relies heavily on the work of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century value theorists such as Alexius Meinong, Nicolai Hartmann, and Max Scheler, blending this continental tradition of ethics with British intuitionism and Scottish Enlightenment articulations. Kolnai welcomes the call to seriousness in this major work crossing moral and political philosophy.