The essays in this book offer an in-depth exploration of value theory. Portions examine the theoretical foundations of values and valuation exploring the rational groundwork for judgments. Other aspects, appealing to value distinctions of inherent, intrinsic, and instrumental, bring to light matters of aesthetic, social political, ethical, and ontological issues.
The essays in this book offer an in-depth exploration of value theory. Portions examine the theoretical foundations of values and valuation exploring the rational groundwork for judgments. Other aspects, appealing to value distinctions of inherent, intrinsic, and instrumental, bring to light matters of aesthetic, social political, ethical, and ontological issues.
G. John M. Abbarno is a past president of both the American Society for Value Inquiry and the International Society for Value Inquiry and the current president of the Conference on Philosophical Societies of the American Philosophical Association. He serves as regional coordinator for the Center for Research in Values and Philosophy. Abbarno has published numerous articles on ethical issues and lectured extensively on value theory at universities in China.
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Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: The Foundations of Value Knowledge The Rational Validation of Values Nicholas Rescher Values in Contexts: An Ontological Theory Barry Smith Intrinsic Values and Universal Reasons for Action B. C. Postow On the Ontology of Inherent Value Robert Halliday Is There an Inherent Moral Value in the Second-Person Relationship? Piotr Boltuc Kolnai and the Interesting Gerald J. Erion Hannah Arendt on Thinking and Its Relation to Evil Sarah Elizabeth Worth The Value of Moral Perception Margaret G. Holland Rationality and the Moral Significance of Emotions Arleen L. F. Salles Part II: The Social and Political Dimensions of Value Society and the Inherent/Instrumental Value Distinction Jan Narveson Racism, Instrumental Value, and Black Reparations George Schedler Discrimination and Affirmative Action Jesse Taylor The Idea of Value in Economic Theory: From Political Economy to Economics David E. Schrader Dworkin and Free Speech: Means or End? Jonelle M. DePetro Is Tolerance Indispensable for Liberalism? Shyli Karin-Frank Part III: Values in Moral Virtues and Moral Rules What Is So Good about Friendship? James O. Grunebaum Instrumental and Inherent Value in the Enchiridion of Epictetus Patricia Anne Murphy On the Utilitarian Criterion of Right Action Joel Thomas Tierno Transformative Value: Intrinsic or Instrumental? John M. Mizzoni Part IV: Cross Currents of Human Values in Society Science as Human Value Thomas Platt Shortcomings in Applying Medical-Model Thinking to Social Problems George T. Hole Pulp Trumps Gump: The Inherent Moral Visions of Pulp Fiction and Forrest Gump Sander H. Lee The Utility of Intrinsic Value Joram Graf Haber Ambiguity of Care in a Technological Society Charles J. Sabatino Moral Space and Values G. John M. Abbarno Against the Distinction of Inherent and Instrumental Values: A Zen Contribution Robert Ginsberg Part V: Value Decisions at the End of Life The Values of Life and Its Inviolability F. M. Kamm The Coptown Case: Inviolable Status and Desert Guyora Binder Euthanasia and the Plasticity of Intrinsic Value Michael F. Patton Jr. Inherency, Instrumentality, and Ambiguity: Values in Medical Ethics Paul R. Johnson
Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: The Foundations of Value Knowledge The Rational Validation of Values Nicholas Rescher Values in Contexts: An Ontological Theory Barry Smith Intrinsic Values and Universal Reasons for Action B. C. Postow On the Ontology of Inherent Value Robert Halliday Is There an Inherent Moral Value in the Second-Person Relationship? Piotr Boltuc Kolnai and the Interesting Gerald J. Erion Hannah Arendt on Thinking and Its Relation to Evil Sarah Elizabeth Worth The Value of Moral Perception Margaret G. Holland Rationality and the Moral Significance of Emotions Arleen L. F. Salles Part II: The Social and Political Dimensions of Value Society and the Inherent/Instrumental Value Distinction Jan Narveson Racism, Instrumental Value, and Black Reparations George Schedler Discrimination and Affirmative Action Jesse Taylor The Idea of Value in Economic Theory: From Political Economy to Economics David E. Schrader Dworkin and Free Speech: Means or End? Jonelle M. DePetro Is Tolerance Indispensable for Liberalism? Shyli Karin-Frank Part III: Values in Moral Virtues and Moral Rules What Is So Good about Friendship? James O. Grunebaum Instrumental and Inherent Value in the Enchiridion of Epictetus Patricia Anne Murphy On the Utilitarian Criterion of Right Action Joel Thomas Tierno Transformative Value: Intrinsic or Instrumental? John M. Mizzoni Part IV: Cross Currents of Human Values in Society Science as Human Value Thomas Platt Shortcomings in Applying Medical-Model Thinking to Social Problems George T. Hole Pulp Trumps Gump: The Inherent Moral Visions of Pulp Fiction and Forrest Gump Sander H. Lee The Utility of Intrinsic Value Joram Graf Haber Ambiguity of Care in a Technological Society Charles J. Sabatino Moral Space and Values G. John M. Abbarno Against the Distinction of Inherent and Instrumental Values: A Zen Contribution Robert Ginsberg Part V: Value Decisions at the End of Life The Values of Life and Its Inviolability F. M. Kamm The Coptown Case: Inviolable Status and Desert Guyora Binder Euthanasia and the Plasticity of Intrinsic Value Michael F. Patton Jr. Inherency, Instrumentality, and Ambiguity: Values in Medical Ethics Paul R. Johnson
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