Brentano and Intrinsic Value
Author: Roderick M. Chisholm
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1986-01-29
Total Pages: 122
ISBN-13: 9780521269896
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A critical exposition of Franz Brentano's theory of intrinsic value.
Author: Roderick M. Chisholm
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1986-01-29
Total Pages: 122
ISBN-13: 9780521269896
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A critical exposition of Franz Brentano's theory of intrinsic value.
Author: Roderick M. Chisholm
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2022-04-25
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9004458344
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Toni Rønnow-Rasmussen
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2006-02-15
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 1402038461
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Recent Work on Intrinsic Value brings together for the first time many of the most important and influential writings on the topic of intrinsic value to have appeared in the last half-century. During this period, inquiry into the nature of intrinsic value has intensified to such an extent that at the moment it is one of the hottest topics in the field of theoretical ethics. The contributions to this volume have been selected in such a way that all of the fundamental questions concerning the nature of intrinsic value are treated in depth and from a variety of viewpoints. These questions include how to understand the concept of intrinsic value, what sorts of things can have intrinsic value, and how to compute intrinsic value. The editors have added an introduction that ties these questions together and places the contributions in context, and they have also provided an extensive bibliography. The result is a comprehensive, balanced, and detailed picture of current thinking about intrinsic value, one that provides an indispensable backdrop against which future writings on the topic may be assessed.
Author: Lynn Cheryl Pasquerella
Publisher:
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 135
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Noah M. Lemos
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994-09-30
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 052146207X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book explores the justification of our beliefs about intrinsic value.
Author: Michael J. Zimmerman
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2001-08-21
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1461610125
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →At the heart of ethics reside the concepts of good and bad; they are at work when we assess whether a person is virtuous or vicious, an act right or wrong, a decision defensible or indefensible, a goal desirable or undesirable. But there are many varieties of goodness and badness. At their core lie intrinsic goodness and badness, the sort of value that something has for its own sake. It is in virtue of intrinsic value that other types of value may be understood, and hence that we can begin to come to terms with questions of virtue and vice, right and wrong, and so on. This book investigates the nature of intrinsic value: just what it is for something to be valuable for its own sake, just what sort of thing can have such value, just how such a value is to be computed. In the final chapter, the fruits of this investigation are applied to a discussion of pleasure, pain, and displeasure and also of moral virtue and vice, in order to determine just what value lies within these phenomena.
Author: Michael J. Zimmerman
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0742512630
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →At the heart of ethics lies the concept of intrinsic value. It is at work when we assess whether a person is virtuous or vicious, and acts rightly or wrongly. This book investigates the nature of intrinsic value: what sort of thing has it, and how it is measured or quantified.
Author: Uriah Kriegel
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018-02-09
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0192509098
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Uriah Kriegel presents a rich exploration of the philosophy of the great nineteenth-century thinker Franz Brentano. He locates Brentano at the crossroads where the Anglo-American and continental European philosophical traditions diverged. At the centre of this account of Brentano's philosophy is the connection between mind and reality. Kriegel aims to develop Brentano's central ideas where they are overly programmatic or do not take into account philosophical developments that have taken place since Brentano's death a century ago; and to offer a partial defense of Brentano's system as quite plausible and in any case extraordinarily creative and thought-provoking. Brentano's system grounds a complete metaphysics and value theory in a well-developed philosophy of mind, and accordingly the book is divided into three parts, devoted to Brentano's philosophy of mind, his metaphysics, and his moral philosophy. The book's fundamental ambition is to show how Brentano combines the clarity and precision of the analytic philosopher with the sweeping vision of the continental philosopher. Brentano pays careful attention to important distinctions, conscientiously defines key notions, presents precise arguments for his claims, judiciously considers potential objections, and in general proceeds very methodically - yet he does so not as an end in itself, but as a means only. His end is the crafting of a grand philosophical system in the classical sense, attempting to produce nothing less than a unified theory of the true, the good, and the beautiful.
Author: Kevin Jung
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-11-27
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 1317555783
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Christian Ethics and Commonsense Morality goes against the grain of various postmodern approaches to morality in contemporary religious ethics. In this book, Jung seeks to provide a new framework in which the nature of common Christian moral beliefs and practices can be given a new meaning. He suggests that, once major philosophical assumptions behind postmodern theories of morality are called into question, we may look at Christian morality in quite a different light. On his account, Christian morality is a historical morality insofar as it is rooted in the rich historical traditions of the Christian church. Yet this kind of historical dependence does not entail the evidential dependence of all moral beliefs on historical traditions. It is possible to argue for the epistemic autonomy of moral beliefs, according to which Christian and other moral beliefs can be justified independently of their historical sources. The particularity of Christian morality lies not in its particular historical sources that also function as the grounds of justification, but rather in its explanatory and motivational capacity to further articulate the kind of moral knowledge that is readily available to most human beings and to enable people to act upon their moral knowledge.