Being and Value

Toward a Constructive Postmodern Metaphysics

AvFrederick Ferré

Häftad, Engelska, 1996

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Beskrivning

Shows the vital relationship between human life and the philosophical placement of value, emphasizing the now-occurring transition from the old mechanical world view to the postmodern alternative inspired by ecology.Being and Value begins with a discussion on metaphysics, showing the vital relationship between human life and the philosophical placement of value, and emphasizing the current transition from the old mechanical worldview to the postmodern alternative inspired by ecology.Being and Value shows how intimately premodern philosophy bound value into the fabric of things, and analyzes the expulsion of value from factual being during the modern period. Special attention is given to beauty: What is the relationship between the subjective and objective conditions of beauty? Is the beauty of nature merely the product of human appreciation? The answer is that beauty-and value-is a more potent ingredient in the structure of things than modern reductionism allows.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1996-03-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt:590 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:SUNY series in Constructive Postmodern Thought
Antal sidor:406
Förlag:State University of New York Press
ISBN:9780791427569

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Mer om författaren

Frederick Ferre is Research Professor of Philosophy at The University of Georgia, Athens. He is the editor of Research in Philosophy and Technology and co-founded the Faculty of Environmental Ethics at the University of Georgia.

Recensioner i media

"This volume is metaphysics with courage and conviction, set forth with persuasion and comprehensiveness, at a time when few people have such metaphysical courage, conviction, and comprehensiveness (and a great many people are cultured despisers of it)." — Holmes Rolston, Colorado State University

Innehållsförteckning

Preface Introduction to SUNY Series in Constructive Postmodern Thought David Ray Griffin, Editor1. What Is Metaphysics? How Metaphysical Theories Are FamiliarHow Metaphysical Theories Are StrangeHow Metaphysical Theories Are ValuedPART ONE PREMODERN METAPHYSICS 2. The Great Pioneers Cosmos and Decent OrderThe MilesiansThe PythagoreansChange or Permanence?Pluralists and AtomistsThe Sophists3. The Great Hellenes SocratesPlatoAristotle4. The Great Transition Value-Echoes of Some pre-SocraticsThe Platonic Value-LensThe Aristotelian Value-LensPremodern to ProtomodernPART TWO MODERN METAPHYSICS 5. The Founders Renaissance Early ModernsNonmathematical Early ModernsKepler and GalileoHobbes and Descartes6. The Prevalence of Matter Malebranche and SpinozaBoyle and NewtonPhilosophes and IdéologuesComte, Maxwell, and Einstein7. The Primacy of Mind Leibniz and BerkeleyKantHegelBradley8. The Pervasiveness of Change Marx and DarwinBergsonAlexanderWhiteheadPART THREE POSTMODERN METAPHYSICS 9. Defining the Postmodern PoststructuralismLiberationismFeminismEnvironmentalism10. Toward an Ecological World Model Postmodern Ecological ScienceUnderstanding RelationsUnderstanding Entities11. Toward a Kalogenic Universe Fundamental Entities: In GeneralFundamental Entitles: In Basic StructureFundamental Entities: In ThemselvesThe Kalogenic Universe: In the Making12. Toward a Reconstructed Metaphysics Personalistic OrganicismConstructive PostmodernismAdequacy: The Material for ConstructionCoherence: The Manner of ConstructionWorks Cited Note on Centers Name Index Subject Index