Truth, Value and Justififcation
Published on 5. September 1991
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-1-85628-151-5 (ISBN)
Description
This study is an inquiry into the foundations of epistemology and ethics. It traces the relations between fact and value, truth and value, fact and theory - historically and systematically. The overall conclusion is that philosophy has never got beyond the "Kantian paradigm" though there have been interesting developments within it. It is also suggested that much thinking in ethics is over-preoccupied with grouping ethics in need-orientated attachment and would benefit from a consideration of the role of detachment.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 157 mm
Width: 223 mm
Weight
400 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85628-151-5 (9781856281515)
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Content
Part 1 Preliminary formal review of the problem - formal analysis of the logic of justification - the problems about ultimate justification posed as a complex constructive dilemma; further considerations of the evasions of the dilemma; "the geometry of justification" - the circle of abduction; "the geometry of justification" - certainty and the subject-object relation. Part 2 Historical development of epistemological aspects of the problem - from Kant to Munevar - brief historical sketch of the logic of justification - from parmenides to Hume; Kant; Hegel; Marx and Darwin; pragmatists, pluralists, and others; some contemporary developments. Part 3 Historical developments of ethical aspects of the problem - from Plato to Lorenz - and back again?; a survey of ethical justification; the dialectic of detachment; the dialectic between attachment and detachment. Part 4 Concluding review - truth, value and justification.