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Materialist ethics and life-value /
Current patterns of global economic activity are not only unsustainable, but unethical - this claim is central to Materialist Ethics and Life-Value. Grounding the definition of ethical value in the natural and social requirements of life-support and life-development shared by all human beings, Jeff...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Montreal :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
©2012.
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| Series: | McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ;
56. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: ethics and materialist philosophy
- Materialism, human finitude, and ethics. Materialism
- The life-ground of value in human life-requirements
- Life-grounded materialist ethical criticism
- The emergence of system-requirements
- The life-blind logic of social expansion
- The instrumentalization of life-value: the material irrationality of global capitalism
- Life-grounded materialist ethics and the human good. The human good as free life-capacity expression and enjoyment
- Conclusion: institutional and political implications.