Title	From enlightenment to receptivity [electronic resource] : rethinking our values
Author	Michael Slote
Imprint	New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013
Connect to	http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199970704.001.0001
Descript	1 online resource (xiii, 245 p.)

This text argues that Western philosophy on the whole has overemphasized rational control and autonomy at the expense of the important countervailing value and virtue of receptivity. Recently the ideas of caring and empathy have received a great deal of philosophical and public attention, but both these notions rest on the deeper and broader value of receptivity, and in this book, Slote seeks to show that we need to focus more on receptivity if we are to attain a more balanced sense and understanding of what is important to us