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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808748403321

Autore

Flynn James R (James Robert), <1934-2020.>

Titolo

How to defend humane ideals : substitutes for objectivity / / James R. Flynn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, Neb. : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2000

©2000

ISBN

0-8032-0261-X

0-585-31135-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 pages)

Disciplina

171/.2

Soggetti

Humanistic ethics

Social sciences and ethics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-204) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- How to Defend Humane Ideals -- introduction THE PROBLEM -- Truth-Tests and What We Have Lost -- part one THE LIMITATIONS OF PHILOSOPHY -- Plato and Thrasymachus -- Truth-Tests and Proofs -- Kant and Sister Simplice -- transition AN AGENDA -- Morality and Moral Debate -- part two THE POTENCY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Race and Class -- Superpeople and Supermen -- Justice and Meritocracy -- Humanism and Postmodernism -- conclusion UNSOLVED PROBLEMS -- The Personal and the Conventional -- References -- Subject Index -- Author Index.