Valuemetrics: The Science of Personal and Professional Ethics

Valuemetrics: The Science of Personal and Professional Ethics
Author: Frank G. Forrest
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2021-11-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9004496041

Valuemetrics is an elaboration of Robert S. Hartman's innovative development in the application of an abstract system to the study of ethical problems. The system used for this purpose is a branch of logic called set theory. Set theory fulfills this role because goodness, the fundamental phenomenon of ethics, is defined axiomatically in terms of sets. The similarity of structure between certain elements of set theory and the various types and degrees of goodness makes mathematical accounting of goodness phenomena possible. In the valuemetrics context, value judgments are considered as an assessment of the goodness of something. Therefore, the mathematical system for the accounting of goodness serves as a tool for objectively making many kinds of value judgments and possible attendant ethical decisions. One of the results of this conception, attributable to Hartman, is the birth of the science of ethics. The first half of the book elucidates the theory, terminology, and mathematical system used in valuemetrics, known as Hartmanean algebra. The second half is devoted to the application of this system to the measurement and development of a person's value vision, and the solution of various problems in ethics using the case study technique. Hartmanean algebra will resolve several types of problems such as the determination of right and wrong, good and bad; determining how to redress and amend instances of wrongs and badness; and how to determine when, if ever, wrongs and badness are justified.

Being and Authenticity

Being and Authenticity
Author: Xunwu Chen
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2021-12-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004495800

This book presents a creative approach to the problem of individual authenticity. What is authenticity? What are its necessary conditions? How is an authentic self possible in society? What are the relationships of authenticity, morality, and happiness? The book examines a wide range of questions in Eastern and Western thought, to which it gives novel answers.

Africa’s Quest for a Philosophy of Decolonization

Africa’s Quest for a Philosophy of Decolonization
Author: Messay Kebede
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9401200874

This book discovers freedom in the colonial idea of African primitiveness. As human transcendence, freedom escapes the drawbacks of otherness, as defended by ethnophilosophy, while exposing the idiosyncratic inspiration of Eurocentric universalism. Decolonization calls for the reconnection with freedom, that is, with myth-making understood as the inaugural act of cultural pluralism. The cultural condition of modernization emerges when the return to the past deploys the future.

Pragmatism and Values

Pragmatism and Values
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2021-12-28
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 900449586X

The essays in this volume are from the First Conference of the Central European Pragmatist Forum, held in Slovakia in 2000. Written by prominent specialists in pragmatism and American philosophy from the United States and Europe, they survey contemporary thinking on classical and contemporary pragmatism, social and political theory, aesthetics, and the application of pragmatist thought in contemporary Europe.

Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Absurd

Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Absurd
Author: Abraham Sagi
Publisher: Rodopi
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2002
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9789042012301

This book is an attempt to read the totality of Camus s oeuvre as a voyage, in which Camus approaches the fundamental questions of human existence: What is the meaning of life? Can ultimate values be grounded without metaphysical presuppositions? Can the pain of the other penetrate the thick shield of human narcissism and self-interest? Solipsism and solidarity are among the destinations Camus reaches in the course of this journey. This book is a new reading of one of the towering humanists of the twentieth century, and sheds new light on his spiritual world."

Alain Leroy Locke

Alain Leroy Locke
Author: Rudolph Alexander Kofi Cain
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2021-10-25
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9004495576

This book fills a void in the scholarly treatment of Alain Locke by providing the reader with a comprehensive view of Locke’s vision of mass, and adult, education as instruments for social change. It is representative of the remarkable optimistic manifesto of 1925 in which the “New Negro,” by virtue of a cosmopolitan education emphasizing value pluralism, would become a full participant in American culture. This text delineates Locke’s crucial contribution to the philosophy of adult education and provides insights into how he expected others to use his aesthetic, literary, and anthropological theories as instruments for social and political transformation.

Spiritual and Political Dimensions of Nonviolence and Peace

Spiritual and Political Dimensions of Nonviolence and Peace
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9401203318

This book is a collection of philosophical papers that explores theoretical and practical aspects and implications of nonviolence as a means of establishing peace. The papers range from spiritual and political dimensions of nonviolence to issues of justice and values and proposals for action and change.

A Different Three Rs for Education

A Different Three Rs for Education
Author: George Allan
Publisher: Rodopi
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2006
Genre: Education
ISBN: 904201699X

This book of twelve essays applies the holistic theories of process philosophy to the educational challenges that teachers face in today's complexly changing world. Topics range from staff development to spirituality, exploring issues of student and teacher motivation, developmental stages of learning, imaginative thinking and writing, nourishing relationships, moral and environmental education, and the development of hospitable learning environments.

Plato's Cratylus

Plato's Cratylus
Author: Michael W. Riley
Publisher: Rodopi
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 9042018755

This book explains how the Cratylus, Plato's apparently meandering and comical dialogue on the correctness of names, makes serious philosophical progress by its notorious etymological digressions. While still a wild ride through a Heraclitean flood of etymologies which threatens to swamp language altogether, the Cratylus emerges as an astonishingly organized evaluation of the power of words.

Problems for Democracy

Problems for Democracy
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2022-03-28
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 940120330X

This book, based on the premise that democracy promotes peace and justice, explores theoretical and practical problems that can arise or that have arisen in democratic polities. Contributors address, with clarifying analyses, such theoretical issues as the relationship between recursivist metaphysics and democracy, the relationship between the economic and political orders, and the nature of justice. Contributors offer, as well, enlightening resolutions of practical problems resulting from a history of social, political or economic injustice.