Nerlich argues that normal human animals are naturally endowed with certain attributes for being persons, speakers of an articulate language living in a culture. Language and cultural life require self-appraisal, and hence an evolution, through self-conflict, of desires into values. Thus valuing is seen as a natural process for persons, one which underlies the morals of duty and obligation. Valuing will be good only if it results in values which are authentic to the individual's nature and to the surrounding culture, and which are objective.
| ISBN | 0198248474 | | DEWEY edition | DC19 | | ISBN13 | 9780198248477
(What's this?) | | Pages | 226 | | Publisher | Oxford University Press | | Volumes | 1 | | Imprint | Clarendon Press | | Weight (grammes) | 433 | | Format | Hardback | | Published in | Oxford | | Publication date | 19 Oct 1989 | | Height (mm) | 216 | | Non-book description | ix217 | | Width (mm) | 138 | | Library of Congress | BD232.N47 | | Spine width (mm) | 22 | | DEWEY | 121.8 | | Academic level | Professional / Scholarly |
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Valuing in the life of a person; Of science and religion; On the state of being a person; Persons and their desires; The dialectic of desire and value; Emotions and feelings; Authentic and objective values; The meaning and the goodness of life; References; Index
"This important book deserves a wide audience of those advanced undergraduates and graduates already familiar with current theories in philosophical psychology and contemporary moral philosophy."--Choice
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