UID:
edocfu_9960030955402883
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
90-04-49475-8
Series Statement:
Value Inquiry Book Series ; 95
Content:
This study of axiology explores the axiocentricity of being human. Human beings dwell in the realm of value. Values are not simply what persons have; values in large part are what persons are. The mystique of values is analyzed here in terms of their cultural, phenomenological, and ontological status. The relationship between science and values is debated. Values should not be submitted to reductionism. Postmodernism raises new problems for the future of a philosophy of values. Yet, we may direct our hopes toward happiness, universalism, and humanism as inseparable from value-life.
Note:
Editorial Foreword. Preface. Introduction by the Editors. PART ONE A DISCOVERY: THE REALM OF VALUES. Chapter One. From the Mystery of Values to Axiology. Chapter Two. Is a Scientific Reconstruction of the Axiological Possible? PART TWO A CONNECTION: VALUE AND CULTURE. Chapter Three. Value in Culture and Culture as Value. Chapter Four. Positivist Reductionism and the Mirage of Non-Philosophical Culture. Chapter Five. Reductionism to Literature and the Temptation of a Post-Philosophical Culture. PART THREE A PROJECT: THE AXIOCENTRIC ONTOLOGY. Chapter Six. The Phenomenology of Value and the Value of Phenomenology. Chapter Seven. Coordinates of an Axiocentric Ontology of the Human. PART FOUR A HOPE: UNIVERSALISM. Editorial Note. Chapter Eight. Happiness: The Loftiest Value of Humankind. Chapter Nine. The Orphic Myth and the Human Condition. Notes. Bibliography. About the Author. Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 90-420-0670-6
Language:
English
