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The validity of values : a normative theory of evaluative rationality / Nicholas Rescher.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rescher, Nicholas
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Values.
- Rationalism.
- Ethics.
- Other Title:
- validity of values
- A System of Pragmatic Idealism, Volume II
- System of Pragmatic Idealism, Volume II
- System of Pragmatic Idealism, Volume II, A
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton University Press
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: PART I: VALUES AND REASONS
- One
- The Reach of Reason
- Two
- Maximization, Optimization, and Rationality
- Three
- The Rationality of Values and Evaluations
- PART II: SCIENCE AND HUMAN VALUES
- Four
- How Wide Is the Gap between Facts and Values?
- Five
- Values in the Face of Natural Science
- PART III: VALUES AND HUMAN NATURE
- Six
- What Is a Person?
- Seven
- The Power of Ideals
- Eight
- The Meaning of Life
- PART IV: VALUES AND MORALITY
- Nine
- Optimism and Pessimism
- Ten
- Moral Objectivity (Are There Moral Facts?)
- Eleven
- Moral Values as Immune to Relativism
- Twelve
- Moral Rationality: Why Be Moral?
- PART V: VALUES AND RATIONALITY
- Thirteen
- Rationality and Happiness
- Fourteen
- Values, Pragmatism, and Idealism
- Bibliography
- Name Index
- Subject Index.
- ISBN:
- 0-691-07393-7
- 1-306-98537-4
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