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Reason's Grief : An Essay on Tragedy and Value by George W. Harris is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Reason's Grief : An Essay on Tragedy and Value about?
Reason's Grief takes W. B. Yeats's comment that we begin to live only when we have conceived life as tragedy as a call for a tragic ethics, something the modern West has yet to produce. Harris argues that we must turn away from religious understandings of tragedy and the human condition and realize that our species will occupy a very brief period of history, at some point to disappear without a trace. We must accept an ethical perspective that avoids pernicious fantasies about ultimate redemptio
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- George W. Harris
- Publisher
- Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780511498930
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Philosophy, History, Ethics & Moral Philosophy
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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