| Description |
viii, 183 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Cosmic justice and the Pre-Socratics -- Plato and the improvement of the soul -- Aristotle and nature's teleology -- The divine logos and the goodness of creation -- Augustine : God and the soul -- Thomas Aquinas : a creational ethic -- Scotus, Ockham, and the Reformers : what God commands -- Right reason and the scientific revolution -- Human nature and moral teleology -- Kant's moral worldview -- Hegel : idealist ethics -- Ethics as empirical science -- Nietzsche : fact and value with no God -- In retrospect. |
| Summary |
This book began as an attempt to explore historical ways of grounding moral values objectively in the nature of reality. Unconvinced that we live in a value-free universe, that face and value are ultimately interrelated, or that we have to create all our own values rather that discovering the good, I wanted to explore the fact-value connection in the larger context of metaphysical and theological views. What emerged is a more pervasive linkage than I had anticipated between religious and moral beliefs. Rorty is in measure right. But the claim that values are somehow objective, "out there," is a legacy on which we still need to draw. |
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Facts (Philosophy)
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Values.
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Philosophy.
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God.
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Facts (Philosophy) (OCoLC)fst00919797
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God. (OCoLC)fst00944037
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Philosophy. (OCoLC)fst01060777
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Values. (OCoLC)fst01163906
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Filosofie.
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Ethiek.
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Ethik.
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Wertphilosophie.
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| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 500 v. Chr.-1890.
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| ISBN |
0802843123 (paper : alk. paper) |
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9780802843128 (paper : alk. paper) |
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