How to defend humane ideals : substitutes for objectivity / / James R. Flynn
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| Autore: |
Flynn James R (James Robert), <1934->
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| Titolo: |
How to defend humane ideals : substitutes for objectivity / / James R. Flynn
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| Pubblicazione: | Lincoln, Neb., : University of Nebraska Press, c2000 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (224 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 171/.2 |
| Soggetto topico: | Humanistic ethics |
| Social sciences and ethics | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | How to defend humane ideals |
| ISBN: | 0-8032-0261-X |
| 0-585-31135-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910808748403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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