Cahoone The Emergence of Value

Human Norms in a Natural World
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4384-9447-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 340 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in American Philosophy and Cultural Thought

Argues that truth, moral right, political right, and aesthetic value may be understood as arising out of a naturalist account of humanity, if naturalism is rightly conceived.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cahoone, Lawrence

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction

I. Approaching the Fact-Value Problem

1. Facts, Values, and Other Dichotomies

2. An Objective Relativism

3. Emergence in Nature

II. Nature and Human Judgments

4. The Feud over Purpose

5. Animal Minds, Theirs and Ours

6. Dimensions of Human Agency

7. Beyond the Naturalistic Fallacy

8. Values in Judgments

9. What Modernity Did to Values

III. Emergent Norms

10. Objective Morality

11. Truth and Logical Validity

12. Ethics of the Truly Social Animal

13. Political Rights, Political Wrongs

14. Art Works

15. The Good

Notes
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lawrence Cahoone is Professor of Philosophy at College of the Holy Cross. He is the author of The Orders of Nature; The Ends of Philosophy; and The Dilemma of Modernity: Philosophy, Culture, and Anti-Culture, all published by SUNY Press.