Is Wrong Life All That Is Possible? Adorno and Aquinas on Ethics

Theodor Adorno's ethical thought is encapsulated in his famous aphorism "Wrong life cannot be lived rightly." This dissertation explicates this alarming declaration, revealing the metaphysical, epistemological, and anthropological analyses that place Adorno's ethical thought into this intractable predicament. I argue that Adorno's ethical thought, while of absolute importance and worthy of consideration, can be moved forward through an engagement with the ethical thought of Thomas Aquinas, toward the possibility of right life.

Name thesis:degree_name

PhD

Level thesis:degree_level

Immediate Access

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Philosophy

Year dc:date.available

2014

Author dc:creator

• Hampshire, Benjamin

Contributors dc:contributor

• James Swindal
• Therese Bonin
• Lambert Zuidervaart

• Critical Theory
• Ethics
• Theodor Adorno
• Thomas Aquinas
• Wrong Life

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

https://dsc.duq.edu/etd/623

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dsc.duq.edu:etd-1639