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Valuemetrics The Science Of Personal And Professional Ethics
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Book Synopsis Valuemetrics: The Science of Personal and Professional Ethics by : Frank G. Forrest
Download or read book Valuemetrics: The Science of Personal and Professional Ethics written by Frank G. Forrest and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Valuemetrics is an elaboration of Robert S. Hartman's innovative development in the application of an abstract system to the study of ethical problems. The system used for this purpose is a branch of logic called set theory. Set theory fulfills this role because goodness, the fundamental phenomenon of ethics, is defined axiomatically in terms of sets. The similarity of structure between certain elements of set theory and the various types and degrees of goodness makes mathematical accounting of goodness phenomena possible. In the valuemetrics context, value judgments are considered as an assessment of the goodness of something. Therefore, the mathematical system for the accounting of goodness serves as a tool for objectively making many kinds of value judgments and possible attendant ethical decisions. One of the results of this conception, attributable to Hartman, is the birth of the science of ethics. The first half of the book elucidates the theory, terminology, and mathematical system used in valuemetrics, known as Hartmanean algebra. The second half is devoted to the application of this system to the measurement and development of a person's value vision, and the solution of various problems in ethics using the case study technique. Hartmanean algebra will resolve several types of problems such as the determination of right and wrong, good and bad; determining how to redress and amend instances of wrongs and badness; and how to determine when, if ever, wrongs and badness are justified.
Book Synopsis Being and Authenticity by : Xunwu Chen
Download or read book Being and Authenticity written by Xunwu Chen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a creative approach to the problem of individual authenticity. What is authenticity? What are its necessary conditions? How is an authentic self possible in society? What are the relationships of authenticity, morality, and happiness? The book examines a wide range of questions in Eastern and Western thought, to which it gives novel answers.
Book Synopsis Africa’s Quest for a Philosophy of Decolonization by : Messay Kebede
Download or read book Africa’s Quest for a Philosophy of Decolonization written by Messay Kebede and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discovers freedom in the colonial idea of African primitiveness. As human transcendence, freedom escapes the drawbacks of otherness, as defended by ethnophilosophy, while exposing the idiosyncratic inspiration of Eurocentric universalism. Decolonization calls for the reconnection with freedom, that is, with myth-making understood as the inaugural act of cultural pluralism. The cultural condition of modernization emerges when the return to the past deploys the future.
Download or read book Pragmatism and Values written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume are from the First Conference of the Central European Pragmatist Forum, held in Slovakia in 2000. Written by prominent specialists in pragmatism and American philosophy from the United States and Europe, they survey contemporary thinking on classical and contemporary pragmatism, social and political theory, aesthetics, and the application of pragmatist thought in contemporary Europe.
Book Synopsis Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Absurd by : Abraham Sagi
Download or read book Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Absurd written by Abraham Sagi and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2002 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an attempt to read the totality of Camus s oeuvre as a voyage, in which Camus approaches the fundamental questions of human existence: What is the meaning of life? Can ultimate values be grounded without metaphysical presuppositions? Can the pain of the other penetrate the thick shield of human narcissism and self-interest? Solipsism and solidarity are among the destinations Camus reaches in the course of this journey. This book is a new reading of one of the towering humanists of the twentieth century, and sheds new light on his spiritual world."
Book Synopsis Alain Leroy Locke by : Rudolph Alexander Kofi Cain
Download or read book Alain Leroy Locke written by Rudolph Alexander Kofi Cain and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book fills a void in the scholarly treatment of Alain Locke by providing the reader with a comprehensive view of Locke’s vision of mass, and adult, education as instruments for social change. It is representative of the remarkable optimistic manifesto of 1925 in which the “New Negro,” by virtue of a cosmopolitan education emphasizing value pluralism, would become a full participant in American culture. This text delineates Locke’s crucial contribution to the philosophy of adult education and provides insights into how he expected others to use his aesthetic, literary, and anthropological theories as instruments for social and political transformation.
Book Synopsis Spiritual and Political Dimensions of Nonviolence and Peace by :
Download or read book Spiritual and Political Dimensions of Nonviolence and Peace written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of philosophical papers that explores theoretical and practical aspects and implications of nonviolence as a means of establishing peace. The papers range from spiritual and political dimensions of nonviolence to issues of justice and values and proposals for action and change.
Book Synopsis A Different Three Rs for Education by : George Allan
Download or read book A Different Three Rs for Education written by George Allan and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2006 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of twelve essays applies the holistic theories of process philosophy to the educational challenges that teachers face in today's complexly changing world. Topics range from staff development to spirituality, exploring issues of student and teacher motivation, developmental stages of learning, imaginative thinking and writing, nourishing relationships, moral and environmental education, and the development of hospitable learning environments.
Book Synopsis Plato's Cratylus by : Michael W. Riley
Download or read book Plato's Cratylus written by Michael W. Riley and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2005 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains how the Cratylus, Plato's apparently meandering and comical dialogue on the correctness of names, makes serious philosophical progress by its notorious etymological digressions. While still a wild ride through a Heraclitean flood of etymologies which threatens to swamp language altogether, the Cratylus emerges as an astonishingly organized evaluation of the power of words.
Download or read book Problems for Democracy written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-03-28 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, based on the premise that democracy promotes peace and justice, explores theoretical and practical problems that can arise or that have arisen in democratic polities. Contributors address, with clarifying analyses, such theoretical issues as the relationship between recursivist metaphysics and democracy, the relationship between the economic and political orders, and the nature of justice. Contributors offer, as well, enlightening resolutions of practical problems resulting from a history of social, political or economic injustice.
Book Synopsis The Logic of Hope: Extensions of Kant's View of Religion by : Sidney Axinn
Download or read book The Logic of Hope: Extensions of Kant's View of Religion written by Sidney Axinn and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a thorough study of the question posed by Kant, For what can a human being rationally hope? It offers a detailed commentary on Kant's seminal work, Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone, as well as an original development of the logic of three of Kant's basic ideas: ambivalence, ignorance, and hope. Sophisticated analytic techniques, including symbolic logic, are applied to this conceptual matrix. The result is a striking case for the transformation of world society into a Kingdom of Ends of individuals and a peaceful League of Nations.
Book Synopsis Encounters in My Travels by : Dixie Lee Harris
Download or read book Encounters in My Travels written by Dixie Lee Harris and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2006 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harris details her travels through 67 countries over twelve years. Questions about how a person's values form his or her life, and how life expresses those values evoke additional philosophical thought about this volume.
Book Synopsis The Reopening of the American Mind by : James W. Vice
Download or read book The Reopening of the American Mind written by James W. Vice and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reopening of the American Mind: On Skepticism and Constitutionalism explores the connection of moderate skepticism with attachment to constitutionalism through the thought of five writers. The features of this skepticism were concisely delineated by James Madison in the 37th Federalist as a recognition of the complexity of political matters, the limitations of human reason, and the shortcomings of language. The position was first articulated by Cicero who connected it with the idea of a mixed or republican constitution developed by trial and error over generations. Cicero was influential in the world of David Hume, Edmund Burke, and Madison. The skeptical/constitutional connection found its most articulate recent advocate in Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter and underlay his advocacy of judicial restraint. Current events have revived interest in the primacy of the legislative branch in balancing interests and rights, in the States as laboratories for democracy, and in an experimental approach to the solution of social problems in what might be called a reopening of the American mind. The five central chapters explore the skeptical/constitutional connection and the spirit of moderation in these political thinkers. Without an appreciation of this tradition of avoiding dogmatism, people will continue to demand simple answers to complex problems. The book is not, however, primarily a tract for the times but a reflection on the on-going search for a more civil world.
Download or read book Process Pragmatism written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-06-08 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses Process Pragmatism, the view that whatever is, derives from interactions. The contributors examine and defend its merits by focusing on major topics, including truth, the existence of unobservables, the origin of knowledge, scientific activity, mathematical functions, laws of nature, and moral agency.
Book Synopsis Institutional Violence by : Deane Curtin
Download or read book Institutional Violence written by Deane Curtin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-05-20 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violence can be physical and psychological. It can characterize personal actions, forms of group activity, and abiding social and political policy. This book includes all of these aspects within its focus on institutional forms of violence. Institution is also a broad category, ranging from formal arrangements such as the military, the criminal code, the death penalty and prison system, to more amorphous but systemic situations indicated by parenting, poverty, sexism, work, and racism. Violence is as complex as the human beings who resort to it; its institutional forms pervade our relational lives. We are all participants in it as victims and perpetrators. The chapters in this book were written in the hope that violence can be explicated, even if not fully understood, and that such clarification can help us in devising less violent forms of living, even if it does not lead to its total abolition. The studies bring new aspects of violence to light and offer a number of suggestions for its remedy.
Book Synopsis Touching Philosophy, Sounding Religion, Placing Education by : Steven Schroeder
Download or read book Touching Philosophy, Sounding Religion, Placing Education written by Steven Schroeder and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2002 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book redefines religious studies as a field in which a plurality of disciplines interact. A social science when understood as a body of knowledge, religion is also marked by discovery, appreciation, orientation, and application--an interplay of the arts and sciences. Teaching religious studies involves the question of the occupation of territories and disentangling occupation from violence.
Book Synopsis Mill's Principle of Utility: A Defense of John Stuart Mill's Notorious Proof by : Necip Fikri Alican
Download or read book Mill's Principle of Utility: A Defense of John Stuart Mill's Notorious Proof written by Necip Fikri Alican and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-09-20 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a thoroughgoing analysis, interpretation, and defense of John Stuart Mill's proof of the principle of utility. It answers the traditional charges levelled against that proof, supports a comprehensive interpretation by painstaking study of Mill's text in Utilitarianism, and marshals arguments on behalf of utility as the first principle of morality. Universal Justice (UJ) is dedicated to the advancement of justice conceived globally. It publishes interpretations of the history of thought as well as original monographs and collective volumes, including work related to the activities of the International Society for Universalism.
