Creative Actualization : A Meliorist Theory of Values.
Title:
Creative Actualization : A Meliorist Theory of Values.
Author:
McDonald, H. P.
ISBN:
9789042032545
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (406 pages)
Series:
Value Inquiry Book
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- ONE Creative Actualization -- 1. Creative Actualization as a Theory of Value -- 2. Action, Telos, Meaning. -- 3. Value as the Ground of Change: Improvements in the World -- 4. Evidence for Value -- TWO Modes of Value -- 1. Inherent Value -- 2. Bearer, Locus and Scope -- 3. Modes of Value -- 4. Evaluation and Norms -- THREE Moral Justification -- 1. Creative Actualization and Morals -- 2. Morals as the Ultimate Justification of Grounding -- 3. The Principles of an Ethic: Reciprocity, the Other, Compossibility, Pluralism, Meliorism and Moral Progress -- FOUR Creative Actualization and the World -- 1. The Value of the Whole: the World -- 2. Life as the Bearer of Value -- 3. Wild Value -- 4. Anthropology -- FIVE Critical Evaluation of Metaphysical Value Theories -- 1. Metaphysical Value Theories -- 2. Transcendent Theories -- 3. Idealist Theories -- 4. Ontological Theories -- 5. Intellectualism -- 6. Life -- 7. Needs -- 8. Other Value Theories: Action -- 9. Labor -- 10. Practicality -- SIX Critical Evaluation of Subjective Value Theories -- 1. Subjective Value -- 2. Affective Theories -- 3. Emotivism -- 4. Emotivism as Purely Subjective -- 5. Hedonism -- 6. Attitudes -- 7. Agapism -- SEVEN Critical Evaluation of Relational Value Theories -- 1. Conative Theories -- 2. Will -- 3. "Demand" Value -- 4. The Interest Theory -- Conclusion Value Hierarchies and Value Autonomy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- About the Author -- Index.
Abstract:
This book presents a major new value theory, value as creative actualization. The book takes a radically new approach to values. All potential values, whether artistic, scientific, political, or economic must be creatively actualized in the world. The theory argues for an active view in which value involves creation of novelties and thereby changes the world in some respect. Thus value is neither transcendent nor subjective, as a good of some sort has emerged in the world. Moreover, creative actualization means we can actualize standards, ideals, kinds and other norms. Creative actualization thereby dissolves the distinction between idealism and realism, since value changes the "real" with novel goods. The ideal is made real by creative actualization. The book examines traditional issues such as inherent value, modes, and meaning in the light of value as creative actualization. The later part of the book critically evaluates the history of value theory, arguing that it is insensitive to the environment and inconsistent with inherent values. Creative actualization extends historical pragmatism in novel ways. This value theory includes an ecocentric ethic, tying value theory to debates in environmental philosophy. The theory attempts to take the environment into consideration in ethics.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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