In today’s episode I discuss the spook of morality including a discussion of the 2022 essay Beyond Egocentrism, Towards Egoism by Cayce Jamil (scroll down for a list of texts).
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Cayce Jamil (2022): Beyond Egocentricism, Towards Egoism: https://www.creative-nothing-zine.com/2024/11/man-is-last-evil-spirit-or-spook-most.html
Classic Philosophical Texts on Morality
Immanuel Kant – Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals: https://amzn.to/4jS3UXJ
David Hume – An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (Morality as Sentiment): https://amzn.to/408cs5B
Aristotle – Nicomachean Ethics (Virtue Ethics): https://amzn.to/3FZj1AF
John Stuart Mill – Utilitarianism (Morality for maximizing pleasure): https://amzn.to/3ZyMbNL
Critical & Subversive Takes on Morality
Friedrich Nietzsche – On the Genealogy of Morals (master/slave morality, resentment): https://amzn.to/3HF3aI2
Max Stirner – The Ego and Its Own (morality as fixed ideal): https://amzn.to/3Zs5LeA
Michel Foucault – Discipline and Punish (morality as internal surveillance): https://amzn.to/4kK51tM
Alasdair MacIntyre – After Virtue (morality as modern fragmentation, calls for return to virtue ethics): https://amzn.to/4n3iCxP
Jacques Lacan – The Ethics of Psychoanalysis (morality as jouissance and the function of guilt): https://amzn.to/3ZuCfVr
Theological and Religious Views on Morality (good for critiquing)
C.S. Lewis – The Abolition of Man (defends objective moral values against relativism): https://amzn.to/3ZTDyxx
Thomas Aquinas – Summa Theologica (esp. Treatise on Law) (Natural law and divine reason): https://amzn.to/43IDXFb
Dietrich Bonhoeffer – Ethics (Christianity and moral responsibility in times of evil): https://amzn.to/4nk5p43
Modern & Cultural Critiques of Morality
Herbert Marcuse – Eros and Civilization (Morality as repression under capitalist society): https://amzn.to/44gzkCo
Simone de Beauvoir – The Ethics of Ambiguity (Existentialist ethics beyond absolute moral codes): https://amzn.to/43WXHnm
Sara Ahmed – The Cultural Politics of Emotion (Guilt, shame, and virtue as culturally managed affects): https://amzn.to/45UuaNB
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