The Future of Value Inquiry

Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-90-420-1377-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 112, 193 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 220 mm, Gewicht: 376 g

Reihe: Value Inquiry Book Series / Nordic Value Studies

This book explores the nature of values, and the status of value studies, at the turn of the millennium. The contributors, nineteen philosophers from fourteen countries, introduce and defend an enriching variety of views regarding the present state and future prospects of value inquiry.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Häyry, Matti

Takala, Tuija

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

ONE Robert GINSBERG: Value Inquiry as the Future of Philosophy
TWO Amihud GILEAD: What Does Value Inquiry Really Need for the Future?
THREE André MINEAU: Value Inquiry and Nazism: Some Considerations on Relativism and Ordinary Morality
FOUR C.L. SHENG: On the Transfer of Economic Value as Legacy or Gift
FIVE Dane GORDON: Value Inquiry, Not a Straightforward Business
SIX Frederick KRAENZEL: Natural Value and Artificial Immortality
SEVEN GERHOLD K. BECKER: In Search of Humanity. Human Dignity as a Basic Moral Attitude
EIGHT Jiang CHANG: Axiology and Ethics: Past, Present and Future
NINE John R. WELCH: Two Types of Moral Dilemma
TEN Jon MILLS: Homo homini lupus. Hegel and Freud on the Future of Humanity
ELEVEN Józef NIONIK: Arbitrariness and Sense
TWELVE L.D. KEITA: Value in Neoclassical Economic Theory: On Efficiency, Equity, and Human Welfare
THIRTEEN Matti HÄYRY: Happiness and the Friction of Moral Revolutions
FOURTEEN Minoru KITAMURA: Multiculturalism and Universal Values
FIFTEEN Mona ABOUSENNA: The problematic of Values in the Next Millennium
SIXTEEN Pio COLONELLO: Nihilism, Melancholy and Values: A Theoretical Approach.
SEVENTEEN Samantha BRENNAN: The Future and Value of Rights: Rights versus Responsibilities
EIGHTEEN William M. ROBB: Can Value Inquiry Be More Effective with Greater Philosophical Discipline?
NINETEEN William SWEET: Value Inquiry, Cultural Diversity, and Ecumenism

Über Autor(innen)

Matti Häyry is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kuopio, Finland, and Head of Centre for Professional Ethics and Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. He has taught philosophy and bioethics in various Finnish Universities since 1985, and coordinated research projects in bioethics at the University of Helsinki. He has been a permanent adviser on bioethics to the National Research and Development Center for Welfare and Health since 1991, and he has participated in the work of legislative committees at the Finnish Ministries of Justice and Health. His publications include Critical Studies in Philosophical Medical Ethics (1990), Liberal Utilitarianism and Applied Ethics (1994), Playing God: Essays on Bioethics (2001), and many articles on bioethics and general philosophy in academic journals and edited collections.

Tuija Takala is Research Fellow at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She has taught philosophy at the Universities of Helsinki and Kuopio in Finland. Her research interests include political philosophy and applied ethics, particularly bioethics. Her publications include Genes, Sense, and Sensibility: Philosophical Studies on the Ethics of Modern Biotechnologies (2000), and articles in Bioethics, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, Journal of Medical Ethics, and The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy.