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No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
ISBN10: 9027728399, ISBN13: 9789027728395, [publisher: D. Reidel Publishing Company (Kluwer Academic Publishers)] Hardcover D. Reidel: 1989. Octavo. Hardcover without a dust jacket, as issued. Glossy boards with minor rubbing to the exterior. Light pencil to the margins of the text block. Book is on the upper end of good condition. [Santa Cruz, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1989]
Dordrecht Kluwer Academic Publishers 1989 1989 ed. Hard cover New. 428 p. Treatise on Basic Philosophy , 8. XVI, 428 p. Intended for college/higher education audience. Intended for professional and scholarly audience.
ISBN10: 9027728399, ISBN13: 9789027728395, [publisher: Springer Netherlands] Hardcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The purpose of this Introduction is to sketch our approach to the study of value, morality and action, and to show the place we assign it in the system of human knowledge. 1. VALUE, MORALITY AND ACTION: FACT, THEORY, AND METATHEORY We take it that all animals evaluate some things and some processes, and that some of them learn the social behavior patterns we call 'moral principles', and even act according to them at least some of the time. An animal incapable of evaluating anything would be very short-lived; and a social animal that did not observe the accepted social behavior patterns would be punished. These are facts about values, morals and behavior patterns: they are incorporated into the bodies of animals or the structure of social groups. We distinguish then the facts of valuation, morality and action from the study of such facts. This study can be scientific, philosophic or both. wayan animal evaluates environmental A zoologist may investigate the or internal stimuli; a social psychologist may examine the way children learn, or fail to learn, certain values and norms when placed in certain environments. And a philosopher may study such descriptive or explan atory studies, with a view to evaluating valuations, moral norms, or behavior patterns; he may analyze the very concepts of value, morals and action, as well ...
ISBN10: 9027728399, ISBN13: 9789027728395, [publisher: Springer Netherlands] Hardcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The purpose of this Introduction is to sketch our approach to the study of value, morality and action, and to show the place we assign it in the system of human knowledge. 1. VALUE, MORALITY AND ACTION: FACT, THEORY, AND METATHEORY We take it that all animals evaluate some things and some processes, and that some of them learn the social behavior patterns we call 'moral principles', and even act according to them at least some of the time. An animal incapable of evaluating anything would be very short-lived; and a social animal that did not observe the accepted social behavior patterns would be punished. These are facts about values, morals and behavior patterns: they are incorporated into the bodies of animals or the structure of social groups. We distinguish then the facts of valuation, morality and action from the study of such facts. This study can be scientific, philosophic or both. wayan animal evaluates environmental A zoologist may investigate the or internal stimuli; a social psychologist may examine the way children learn, or fail to learn, certain values and norms when placed in certain environments. And a philosopher may study such descriptive or explan atory studies, with a view to evaluating valuations, moral norms, or behavior patterns; he may analyze the very concepts of value, morals and action, as well ...
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ISBN10: 9027728399, ISBN13: 9789027728395, [publisher: Springer] Hardcover Series: Treatise on Basic Philosophy. Num Pages: 428 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 802. . 1989. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. [Olney, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1989]
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