The Emergence of Value
Human Norms in a Natural World
1st Edition
Published on 1. September 2023
340 pages
978-1-4384-9447-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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English
Place of publication
Basel/Berlin/Boston
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
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Reflowable
Illustrations
Total Illustrations: 7
Total Illustrations: 7
ISBN-13
978-1-4384-9447-0 (9781438494470)
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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.
Content
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
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
