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PublisherSTATE University of New York Press
ISBN-100791450600
ISBN-139780791450604
eBay Product ID (ePID)1813595
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Number of Pages364 Pages
Publication NameLiving and Value : Toward a Constructive Postmodern Ethics
LanguageEnglish
SubjectEthics & Moral Philosophy
Publication Year2001
TypeTextbook
AuthorFrederick Ferré
Subject AreaPhilosophy
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height1 in
Item Weight17.6 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN00-066069
Reviews"Ferré finds much of contemporary moral philosophy unsatisfactory. A correct ethics needs a better foundation, and this Ferré finds in the process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead. Ferré offers an unusual and valuable way of looking at the world, and his book is highly recommended." -- Library Journal "A practical and theoretical guide to those perplexed about the major issues of our day, the book provides a comprehensive historical review of Western ethics as well as a valid and persuasive counterproposal to the twin contemporary choices of ethical skepticism and ethical irrealism. By providing such a clearly written and competently argued account of 'personalistic organicism,' Ferré provides the present day cultural debate with a comprehensive and concrete alternative to the negative polemics characterizing so much of contemporary postmodern philosophy." -- Joseph Grange, author of The City: An Urban Cosmology "Postmodernism is dominated by those who, rightly or wrongly, give the impression that their ethics amounts to either a Derridean relativism or a Foucauldian hermeneutics of suspicion (often connected, as I see things, to a revitalized concern for Hobbesian power). It is extremely important that we have a constructive postmodern ethics, a la Ferré." -- Daniel Dombrowski, author of Kazantzakis and God
Dewey Edition21
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal170
Table Of ContentPreface Introduction to SUNY Series in Constructive Postmodern Thought David Ray Griffin 1. How Should We Approach Ethics? As a Way if Thinking As a Way of Judging As a Way of Acting Part One: Ethics 2. How Did We Get Here? Early Pretheoretical Days Classical Premodern Ethical Theory Christian Premodern Ethical Theory Early Modern Ethical Theory Late Modern Ethical Theory 3. Ethics and Knowing Ethical Experiencing Ethical Thinking Ethical Knowing Coda: Overcoming Disconnections 4. Ethics and Being The Locus of Value Freedom, Obligation, and Responsibility Persons and Organisms Part Two: Ethics and Religion 5. Context of Contexts Religious World Models Assessing Religious World Models 6. Question of God Question of Proofs Question of Purpose Question of Pluralism 7. Ugliness and Evil Evil as Ugliness Types of Ugliness Cultural Ugliness Natural Ugliness Handling Ugliness Part Three: Ethics and Society 8. Natural Values Extraterrestrial Values Earthling Values Human Values 9. Technological Values Technologies of the Organic Technologies of the Personal 10. Political Values Creativity Homeostasis Mutuality Works Cited Note on Centers Name Index Subject Index
SynopsisBased on an ecologically inspired wordview, defends ethics against skepticism and irrealism. Providing a worthy conclusion to Ferré's trilogy on preserving value in a postmodern world, Living and Value places ethics into the wider context of religion, God, and evil, and offers postmodern suggestions for environmental, technological, and political reforms., Providing a worthy conclusion to Ferr 's trilogy on preserving value in a postmodern world, Living and Value places ethics into the wider context of religion, God, and evil, and offers postmodern suggestions for environmental, technological, and political reforms., Providing a worthy conclusion to Ferré's trilogy on preserving value in a postmodern world, Living and Value places ethics into the wider context of religion, God, and evil, and offers postmodern suggestions for environmental, technological, and political reforms.
LC Classification NumberBJ1012.F47 2001
