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catalog contributor b1785686.
catalog created "1955.".
catalog date "1955".
catalog date "1955.".
catalog dateCopyrighted "1955.".
catalog description "Bibliographical footnotes.".
catalog description "Part 1. Ethical relativity: background and analysis : I. What is ethical relativity? : It all depends ; The threads in the fabric of ethical relativity ; Indeterminacy: The basic design -- II. Barriers and tools: conscience, moral law and reason : Conscience as pointer reading ; "The starry heavens above and the moral law within" the romance of reason ; Contents of reason in ethics -- III. Barriers and tools: the spectre of the stubborn man : Are ultimate premises arbitrary? ; The "unbridgeable chasm" between fact and value ; Ultimate commitment and the causal principle ; Language as servant, not master ; Towards the scientific study of ultimate disagreement -- IV. The nature and sources of indeterminacy : Why seek to diminish indeterminacy? ; Structure and sources of indeterminacy ; Towards coping with indeterminacy".
catalog description "Part 2. What the human sciences can offer : V. Biological perspectives : Attempts to derive moral patterns from biology ; The "naturalization" of moral phenomena ; The value of life ; Evaluation of pleasure and pain ; Bases for evaluating biological drives ; Evaluation of health and frustration ; The functional hypothesis ; Group orientation within the biological perspective ; How far can the biological perspective reduce indeterminacy in ethical judgment? -- VI. Psychological perspectives : Consciousness and values ; The role of fundamental needs ; Psychological evaluation of egoism ; Impact of a theory of personality development ; Growth of psychological criteria for normative concepts ; Psychological evaluation of "amorality" ; Psychological search for phenomenal invariants ; Limitations in the psychological treatment of ethics -- VII. Cultural and social perspectives : Cultural and social content of moral ideas ; The meaning of cultural relativity ; Critique of the theses of cultural relativity ; The search for invariant values ; Application of biological and psychological criteria ; Invariant tasks of every society ; Ethical role of sociological determinants and functions ; Is social science "neutral" on value questions? -- VIII. Historical perspectives : The telescopic view ; The struggle for power ; The growth of moral perfection ; Liberty as historical aspiration ; Development of material control over natural world ; Standards discoverable in historians' value criteria ; The microscopic view: the problem of specific relevance ; Is knowledge itself culturally and historically "relative"? ; Applications to historical knowledge".
catalog description "Part 3. Towards a common ethic : IX. The theory of the valuational base : Taking stock ; The concept of the valuational base ; Validation of the valuational base ; The valuational base in the evaluative process: illustration of a permanent instrumentality ; The valuational base in the evaluative process: illustration of a complex ideal ; The concept of a personal base ; Ethical theory itself moored to the valuational base ; Residual indeterminacy.".
catalog extent "348 p.".
catalog issued "1955".
catalog issued "1955.".
catalog language "eng".
catalog publisher "Glencoe, Ill., Free Press,".
catalog subject "171".
catalog subject "BJ37 .E25".
catalog subject "Ethical relativism.".
catalog subject "Ethics.".
catalog subject "Values.".
catalog tableOfContents "Part 1. Ethical relativity: background and analysis : I. What is ethical relativity? : It all depends ; The threads in the fabric of ethical relativity ; Indeterminacy: The basic design -- II. Barriers and tools: conscience, moral law and reason : Conscience as pointer reading ; "The starry heavens above and the moral law within" the romance of reason ; Contents of reason in ethics -- III. Barriers and tools: the spectre of the stubborn man : Are ultimate premises arbitrary? ; The "unbridgeable chasm" between fact and value ; Ultimate commitment and the causal principle ; Language as servant, not master ; Towards the scientific study of ultimate disagreement -- IV. The nature and sources of indeterminacy : Why seek to diminish indeterminacy? ; Structure and sources of indeterminacy ; Towards coping with indeterminacy".
catalog tableOfContents "Part 2. What the human sciences can offer : V. Biological perspectives : Attempts to derive moral patterns from biology ; The "naturalization" of moral phenomena ; The value of life ; Evaluation of pleasure and pain ; Bases for evaluating biological drives ; Evaluation of health and frustration ; The functional hypothesis ; Group orientation within the biological perspective ; How far can the biological perspective reduce indeterminacy in ethical judgment? -- VI. Psychological perspectives : Consciousness and values ; The role of fundamental needs ; Psychological evaluation of egoism ; Impact of a theory of personality development ; Growth of psychological criteria for normative concepts ; Psychological evaluation of "amorality" ; Psychological search for phenomenal invariants ; Limitations in the psychological treatment of ethics -- VII. Cultural and social perspectives : Cultural and social content of moral ideas ; The meaning of cultural relativity ; Critique of the theses of cultural relativity ; The search for invariant values ; Application of biological and psychological criteria ; Invariant tasks of every society ; Ethical role of sociological determinants and functions ; Is social science "neutral" on value questions? -- VIII. Historical perspectives : The telescopic view ; The struggle for power ; The growth of moral perfection ; Liberty as historical aspiration ; Development of material control over natural world ; Standards discoverable in historians' value criteria ; The microscopic view: the problem of specific relevance ; Is knowledge itself culturally and historically "relative"? ; Applications to historical knowledge".
catalog tableOfContents "Part 3. Towards a common ethic : IX. The theory of the valuational base : Taking stock ; The concept of the valuational base ; Validation of the valuational base ; The valuational base in the evaluative process: illustration of a permanent instrumentality ; The valuational base in the evaluative process: illustration of a complex ideal ; The concept of a personal base ; Ethical theory itself moored to the valuational base ; Residual indeterminacy.".
catalog title "Ethical judgment; the use of science in ethics.".
catalog type "text".