LEADER 03690nam 2200541Ia 450 001 9910787685603321 005 20230803031232.0 010 $a1-62894-023-9 035 $a(CKB)2670000000413525 035 $a(EBL)1363723 035 $a(OCoLC)857365286 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000980893 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12425001 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000980893 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10969920 035 $a(PQKB)10662358 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1363723 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1363723 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10750970 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000413525 100 $a20130723d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe end of knowledge$b[electronic resource] $ea discourse on the unification of philosophy /$fMichael David Levenstein 210 $aNew York $cAlgora Pub.$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (274 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-62894-021-2 327 $aPreface; 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 Hedonism 327 $aThe 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 Realism 327 $aThe 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 Happy 330 $aThe 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 the 606 $aEthics 606 $aPhilosophy 615 0$aEthics. 615 0$aPhilosophy. 676 $a170 700 $aLevenstein$b Michael David$01527980 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787685603321 996 $aThe end of knowledge$93771362 997 $aUNINA