Values and Valuing

ISBN-13: 9780198248477 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 232 str.

Graham Nerlich

Opis

This provocative book argues that people are naturally endowed with the ability to speak an articulate language and to form a culture. Language and cultural life require self-appraisal, and hence an evolution--through self-conflict--of desires into values. Nerlich demonstrates that this valuing is a natural process, one that underlies the morals of duty and obligation. He concludes that such valuing will be good only if it results in objective values that are authentic to the individual's nature and surrounding culture.

Recenzje

'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

Spis treści

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