The Variety of Values
essays on morality, meaning, and love
$106.24
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
12 February 2015
Summary
Beyond Morality: Exploring Love, Meaning, and the Richness of Values
For over thirty years, Susan Wolf has explored moral and nonmoral values and their complex relationships. This collection gathers her most influential essays on morality, love, and meaning, from the seminal “Moral Saints” to the recent “The Importance of Love.”
Wolf challenges the common tendency to categorize values as either personal/self-interested or impersonal/altruistic. She argues this dichotomy over…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780195332810 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0195332814 |
| Author: | Susan Wolf |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 12 February 2015 |
| Weight: | 376g |
| Dimensions: | 231mm x 155mm x 23mm |
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The Variety of Values is a valuable contribution to contemporary ethics suitable for both professional philosophers and a more general readership.
The Variety of Values is a valuable contribution to contemporary ethics suitable for both professional philosophers and a more general readership. * Lucas Scripter, The Philosophical Quarterly *
About The Author
Susan Wolf
Susan Wolf is the Edna J. Koury Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her work focuses chiefly on ethics and its close relations in philosophy of mind, philosophy of action, political philosophy, and aesthetics. She is author of Freedom Within Reason (OUP, 1990) and Meaning in Life and Why It Matters (Princeton, 2010), and co-editor, with Christopher Grau of UnderstandingLove: Philosophy, Film, and Fiction (OUP, 2014).
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