Publisher's Synopsis
An Ethics of Personality addresses the ultimate question of modern ethics: how is morality possible after the ′death of God′. It is the closing volume – after General Ethics and Philosophy of Morals – of Agnes Heller′s trilogy A Theory of Morals.
The book opens by exploring Nietszche′s ethics of personality as exemplified in his passionate critical engagement with Wagner′s Parsifal in an entirely new reading of his A Geneology of Morals. It continues by examining the case for a non–absolutist ethics employing ideas, norms and rules from traditional and modern moral philosophies, particularly those of Kant and Kierkegaard. It concludes by proposing the reintroduction of such traditional concepts as love, beauty and happiness into modern ethics.
