Inherent and Instrumental Values (eBook, ePUB)

Excursions in Value Inquiry
Redaktion: Abbarno, G. John M.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The essays in this book range broadly over different aspects of value theory and include contributions by Nicholas Rescher, Frances Kamm, Barry Smith, and Jan Narveson. 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, drawn most notably by C. I. Lewis, bring to light matters of aesthetic, social political, ethical, and ontological issues. Throughout Inherent and Instrumental Values, the authors address questions assessing the intrinsic worth of utility of actions and whether manual or professional labor can hold an equal value rating and the implications of this assessment. In other portions of the anthology, authors explore the extent to which such value categories above help clarify and assess moral issues we encounter in everyday life. Among some analyzed in this book are racism and affirmative action, abortion, euthanasia, homelessness, care, and friendship. The theme of the nature of value and the role of valuation we encounter in the days of our life, provide a basis for examining other aspects of axiology that lie beyond the scope of this work.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 327
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780761864950
• Artikelnr.: 42132252

Autorenporträt

Edited by G. John M. Abbarno

Inhaltsangabe

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