Rationality, virtue, and liberation [electronic resource] : a post-dialectical theory of value / Stephen Petro.

Rationality, virtue, and liberation [electronic resource] : a post-dialectical theory of value / Stephen Petro.

9783319022857 electronic book
3319022857 electronic book
9783319022840

Cham : Springer, 2014.

English

1 online resource (xiii, 327 pages) : illustrations.

10.1007/978-3-319-02285-7 doi

BD232

179/.9

This book explores the overlooked but vital theoretical relationships between R. M. Hare, Alan Gewirth, and Jorgen Habermas. The author claims their accounts of value, while failing to address classic virtue-theoretical critiques, bear the seeds of a resolution to the ultimate question "What is most valuable?" These dialectical approaches, as claimed, justify a reinterpretation of value and value judgment according to the Carnapian conception of an empirical-linguistic framework or grammar. Through a further synthesis with the work of Philippa Foot and Thomas Magnell, the author shows that value would be literally meaningless without four fundamental phenomena which constitute such a framework: Logical Judgment, Conceptual Synthesis, Conceptual Abstraction, and Freedom. As part of the 'grammar of goodness,' the excellence of these phenomena, in a highly concrete way, constitute the essence of the greatest good, as this book explains.

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