Being and value : toward a constructive postmodern metaphysics / Frederick Ferré.

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Ferré, Frederick

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text

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online resource

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0585036438
9780585036434

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121/.8 20

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BD111 .F29 1996eb

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08.31

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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 intimately premodern philosophy bound value into the fabric of things, and analyzes the expulsion of value from factual being during the modern period. Special attention is given to beauty: What is the relationship between the subjective and objective conditions of beauty? Is the beauty of nature merely the product of human appreciation? The answer is that beauty - and value - is a more potent ingredient in the structure of things than modern reductionism allows.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-388) and indexes.

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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 intimately premodern philosophy bound value into the fabric of things, and analyzes the expulsion of value from factual being during the modern period. Special attention is given to beauty: What is the relationship between the subjective and objective conditions of beauty? Is the beauty of nature merely the product of human appreciation? The answer is that beauty - and value - is a more potent ingredient in the structure of things than modern reductionism allows.

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