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Being and value : toward a constructive postmodern metaphysics /

Being and Value begins with a discussion on metaphysics, showing the vital relationship between human life and the philosophical placement of value, and emphasizing the current transition from the old mechanical worldview to the postmodern alternative inspired by ecology. Being and Value shows how i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ferré, Frederick
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1996.
Colección:SUNY series in constructive postmodern thought.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction to SUNY Series in Constructive Postmodern Thought / David Ray Griffin
  • 1. What Is Metaphysics? How Metaphysical Theories Are Familiar. How Metaphysical Theories Are Strange. How Metaphysical Theories Are Valued
  • 2. The Great Pioneers. Cosmos and Decent Order. The Milesians. The Pythagoreans. Change or Permanence? Pluralists and Atomists. The Sophists
  • 3. The Great Hellenes. Socrates. Plato. Aristotle
  • 4. The Great Transition. Value-Echoes of Some pre-Socratics. The Platonic Value-Lens. The Aristotelian Value-Lens. Premodern to Protomodern
  • 5. The Founders. Renaissance Early Moderns. Nonmathematical Early Moderns. Kepler and Galileo. Hobbes and Descartes
  • 6. The Prevalence of Matter. Malebranche and Spinoza. Boyle and Newton. Philosophes and Ideologues. Comte, Maxwell, and Einstein
  • 7. The Primacy of Mind. Leibniz and Berkeley. Kant. Hegel. Bradley
  • 8. The Pervasiveness of Change. Marx and Darwin. Bergson. Alexander. Whitehead.