Revisiting the Objectivist-Subjectivist Debate / by TIBOR R. MACHAN.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Machan, Tibor R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Objectivism (Philosophy).

Subjectivity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 v.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

S.l. : Addleton Academic Publishers, S.d.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Not only is philosophy a discipline that's rarely discussed outside of the academy;sometimes it's regarded to be a very curious, obscure subject matter, one that peopledon't know where to place. Yet no one can avoid philosophy entirely. Even to tryamounts to being philosophical.When it comes to philosophy's various branches, most would list only ethics as afamiliar one since the question of how people should conduct themselves is difficult toclassify as a branch of any other discipline, such as sociology, economics or chemistry.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title

Title

Copyright

Contents

About the Author

Dedication

Introduction

I. Why Is This Question Important? Why Is It Vital to Address whether We Can Be Objective or Must Forever Settle for Subjectivity in Our Areas of Concern?

II. Why Would Some Smart People Choose Subjectivism over Objectivism when It Comes to How They View Human Understanding?

a. Metaphysical Subjectivism: Is Perhaps the World Itself Just Something in the Human Mind (e.g., C. I. Lewis and Richard Rorty)?

b. Epistemology: Is Our Knowledge of the World a Matter of the Way "We See Things"? Is It Dependent on Our Point of View or Frame of Reference, Perspective? Or Do We Know the World "as It Really Is?" (A. J. Ayer, P. Feyerabend, T. Kuhn)

c. Ethics &amp

Economics: How People Ought to Act, Something Very Much on Their Minds-Is It Up to Them Individually or Collectively? Or Could There Be a Right Answer to this Question when It's Asked, Based on an Objective Reality? (Stevenson, Ayer, von Mises, Rothbard &amp

Rand)

d. How About Economic Values: In the Market when One Takes Something To Be of Economic Value, Is That Subjective?

e. What Then of Ethical "Objectivity" and "Subjectivity"?

f. If Ethical Claims Can Be Objective Then What about All the Ethical Disagreements?

g. The Role of Personal Identity

h. Subjectivity to Objectivity

i. Is There Objectivity in Ethics?

j. Hume's Is-Ought and Moore's Naturalist Fallacy: Do They Rebut Objectivity?

k. Politics: The Way Human Communities Should Be Organized, Is It Something We Can Know Objectively? (Macdonald, Rawls, Sunstein)

l. Aesthetics: So Then Is Beauty (or Artistic Excellence) Just in the Eye (or Ear or Mind) of the Beholder? (Kant et al.)

m. Conclusion

n. Afterword: Can People Be Objective?

Notes and References

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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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ISBN:

9781942585510

1942585519

9781461911135

1461911133

OCLC:

1265460372