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A copernican revolution in ethics: Oswald Spengler’s cultural ethics and their contemporary relevance

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J.J. Baardewijk,van | Artikel | Publicatiedatum: 30 juni 2023
This paper discusses Spengler’s cultural philosophical interpretation of ethics. Ethics is normally considered as a discipline that argues about good and bad in a manner that applies universally to all. Spengler, however, is a relativist who shows how ethical systems relate to the culture in which they emerge during a certain historical phase. This paper outlines Spengler’s key ideas on ethics and in a ‘Spenglerian way’ reveals typical Faustian traits in contemporary normative discussions with respect to Covid-19 policies, gender, capitalism and moral talk.

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