03723nam 2200553Ia 450 991046319630332120200520144314.01-62894-023-9(CKB)2670000000413525(EBL)1363723(OCoLC)857365286(SSID)ssj0000980893(PQKBManifestationID)12425001(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000980893(PQKBWorkID)10969920(PQKB)10662358(MiAaPQ)EBC1363723(Au-PeEL)EBL1363723(CaPaEBR)ebr10750970(EXLCZ)99267000000041352520130723d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe end of knowledge[electronic resource] a discourse on the unification of philosophy /Michael David LevensteinNew York Algora Pub.20131 online resource (274 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-62894-021-2 Preface; Philosophy as the 'Central Subject'; Introduction; What is Equiism?; Part I: Epistemology; The Nature of Reason; Rationality and Intuition; Emotion; Experiential Learning; Perfection and Moral Fundamentality; Epistemic Commensurability; Part II: Metaphysics; Introduction to Objective Materialism; The Equiist Position on God; The Future of God; The Existence of God; In Defense of Free Will; Part III: Why Be Moral?; Pleasure, Pain, Happiness and Utility; Moral Axiology: Autonomy and Rights; Treatment of Rights; Hierarchy of Pleasures; The Paradox of HedonismThe Role of Society in Promoting PleasureUnhappiness; Justifying Moral Practice; Summary; Part IV: What Is Moral; Utilitarian Reasoning; Lexical Priorities and Hedonic Transfer; Meritocratic Utilitarianism: An Overview; Intent, Consequence and Negligence; Omission; Quantifying Pleasure; Efficiency; Benevolent Equity; The Universal Moral Law; The New Aristocracy; What is Justice?; Justice in Punishment; Part V: Unification; Rational/Experiential Impasse; Inherence and Consequence; Deontology as a Special Form of Consequentialism; Virtue Ethics; Part VI: Aesthetics; What is Art?; Formal RealismThe Boundaries of ArtThe Nature of Taste; Art as Ethics; The Contemplation-Comprehension Theory of Jokes; Part VII: Ecopolitical Utilism; Introduction to Retroconservatism; Ecopolitical Utilism as Political Practice; A New World Order; On the Normative Foundations of Value and Organization; The Paradox of Autonomy and Monetary Value Theory; The Principle of Scarcity-Induced Value; The Theorem of Valuation; Unification So Far; Part VIII: Being HappyThe End of Knowledge is a revolutionary work in several regards, most especially in its reinvention of reason as both a theoretical and practical tool able to identify and craft ideal axiological judgments. This treatise redefines reason as a tripartite phenomenon comprising rational, emotional and experiential modes of knowledge acquisition, whose application serves as the foundation of moral practice, itself the prerequisite to philosophic happiness. In so doing, it outlines a visionary theory of universal morality, unifying disparate schools of thought previously incompatible throughout theEthicsPhilosophyElectronic books.Ethics.Philosophy.170Levenstein Michael David904914MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463196303321The end of knowledge2136114UNINA