Being and Worth.
Title:
Being and Worth.
Author:
Collier, Andrew.
ISBN:
9780203980767
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (131 pages)
Series:
Critical Realism: Interventions (Routledge Critical Realism)
Contents:
Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Are there values independent of humankind? -- 2 Towards Spinozism -- 1 Descartes -- 2 Kant -- 3 Popular romanticism -- 4 Hume -- 5 Spinoza -- 3 Spinozism -- APPENDIX TO CHAPTER 3: AGAINST IRRATIONALISM -- Irrationalism as epistemic amoralism -- Reason and authority -- Irrationalism as 'action not words' -- Universal and particular -- 4 Beyond Spinozism -- 5 Problems about the worth of being -- Good as being and good as end -- Deficient causes -- Degrees of being -- 6 Away from anthropocentrism -- 7 The worth of human beings -- Supplementary essay -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- Notes -- Introduction -- 1 Are there values independent of humankind? -- 3 Spinozism: the work of reason -- 5 Problems about the worth of being -- 6 Away from anthropocentrism -- 7 The worth of human beings -- Supplementary essay -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index.
Abstract:
Being and Worth extends recent depth-realist philosophy to the question of values. It argues that beings both in the natural and human worlds have worth in themselves, whether we recognise it or not. This view is defended through and account of the human mind as essentially concerned with that of which it is independent. Conclusions follow both for environmental ethics - that natural beings should be valued for themselves, not just for their use to us - and for justice in the human world, based on the idea that humans are unique and equal in respect of 'having a life to live'.
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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