Anthony O'Hear

Philosophy, the Good, the True and the Beautiful

Herausgeber: O'Hear, Anthony

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Produktbeschreibung

Considers the role of values in truth seeking, in morality, in aesthetics and also in the spiritual life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 447g
• ISBN-13: 9780521785112
• ISBN-10: 0521785111
• Artikelnr.: 21917371

Autorenporträt

Anthony O'Hear is professor of philosophy at the University of Buckingham, UK. He was director of the Royal Institute of Philosophy and editor of its journal Philosophy for twenty-five years. In 2018 he was appointed OBE for his services to education.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Value and idealism Sebastian Gardner
2. Norms of language Paul Horwich
3. Values and cosmic imagination Ronald Hepburn
4. Spiritual values, consolation and abandonment John Haldane
5. The divine mind John Leslie
6. Enchantment Roger Fellows
7. 'Beyond Reality': Plato's good revisited David Evans
8. Battering, gilding, and staining Simon Blackburn
9. Is the esse of intrinsic value percipi?: pleasure, pain, and value Timothy Sprigge
10. On criticizing values A. W. Price
11. Should we pass the buck? Jonathan Dancy
12. 'The right and the good' and W. D. Ross's criticism of consequentialism David Wiggins
13. Deontology and value David McNaughton and Piers Rawling
14. Beauty and testimony Robert Hopkins
15. The sirens' serenade Anthony Savile
16. Misplacing freedom, displacing the imagination: Cavell and Murdoch on the fact/value distinction Stephen Mulhall.