Exploring the World of Human Practice Readings in and about the Philosophy of Aurel Kolnai

Aurel Kolnai was born in Budapest in 1900 and died in London in 1973. He was, according to Karl Popper and the late Bernard Williams, one of the most original, provocative, and sensitive philosophers of the twentieth century. Kolnai's moral philosophy is best described in his own words as "intrinsicalist, non-naturalist, non-reductionist," which took its original impetus from Scheler's value ethics, and was developed by using a natural phenomenologist method. The unique combination of linguistic analysis and phenomenology yields highly original ideas on classical fields of moral theory, such as responsibility and free will, the meaning of right and wrong, the universalisabilty of ethical norms, the role of moral emotions and internalism vs. externalism, to mention a fewKolnai, Aurel is the author of 'Exploring the World of Human Practice Readings in and about the Philosophy of Aurel Kolnai', published 2005 under ISBN 9789639241978 and ISBN 9639241970.