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Values and Valuing: Speculations on the Ethical Life of Persons - Rilegato

Nerlich, Graham

 
9780198248477: Values and Valuing: Speculations on the Ethical Life of Persons
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ISBN 10: 0198248474 ISBN 13: 9780198248477
Casa editrice: Clarendon Press, 1989

Sinossi

Nerlich argues that normal human animals are naturally endowed with certain attributes for being persons, speakers of an articulate language living in a culture. Language and cultural life require self-appraisal, and hence an evolution, through self-conflict, of desires into values. Thus valuing is seen as a natural process for persons, one which underlies the morals of duty and obligation. Valuing will be good only if it results in values which are authentic to the individual`s nature and to the surrounding culture, and which are objective.

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Recensione

'The book is attractively written, and whilst fairly loosely structured overall and, deliberately, not seeking to proceed by tight, analytical, argument, it has many arresting insights and adds up to a thought-provoking and worthwhile study of an important theme.' N.J.H. Dent, Philosophy, October 1990

`Nerlich's line of argument is intended to be, broadly, by Aristotle out of Hegel, albeit a Hegel shorn of a philosophy of history. The argument is supple, concise, urbane and rich in local detail.' The Australasian Journal

'what he has done is to open up new areas for profitable discussion ... the book is stylishly written, opens up new debates, and makes an important contribution to moral philosophy' R.S. Downie, University of Glasgow, Philosophical Quarterly, 10/91

Contenuti

Valuing in the life of a person; Of science and religion; On the state of being a person; Persons and their desires; The dialectic of desire and value; Emotions and feelings; Authentic and objective values; The meaning and the goodness of life; References; Index

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Editore
Clarendon Press
Data di pubblicazione
1989
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0198248474
ISBN 13 
9780198248477
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
226
Contatto del produttore
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