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- catalog abstract "Given the evolutionary and developmental processes that form a human being, can we plausibly believe that people can make rational and autonomous choices about their lives? How can such choices be non-arbitrary and compelling if there are no norms outside the historical process against which they can be judged? And if that historical process is simply an accidental episode in an indifferent universe, what sorts of meanings can individual lives and choices have? These are the questions that Gary H. Stahl addresses in this original and provocative work. Drawing on arguments from biology and psychology as well as from the history of philosophy, Stahl examines the naturalistic meaning that can be assigned to moral agency, choice, and responsibility, in order to assert the conjunction between ethics and metaphysics. His focus is the process within which the self and the other, defined in terms of each other, emerge within evolution and development so as to generate an irreducible level of meaning.".
- catalog contributor b7517817.
- catalog created "1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1995.".
- catalog description "Given the evolutionary and developmental processes that form a human being, can we plausibly believe that people can make rational and autonomous choices about their lives? How can such choices be non-arbitrary and compelling if there are no norms outside the historical process against which they can be judged? And if that historical process is simply an accidental episode in an indifferent universe, what sorts of meanings can individual lives and choices have?".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-211) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: The Three Original Questions -- Ch. 1. On Not Reducing Agents to Organisms. People and Process. Levels of Process. The Emergence of Persons within Process. Methodological Problems and Prospects -- Ch. 2. Biological and Ethical Processes. Health at Different Levels of Process. "Health" and "Disease" as Integrative Concepts. Morality as an Ordering Principle. Health and Morality as Levels of Integration. Emergent Levels of Space and Time. Replies to Some Criticisms. Implications of the Bioethical Parallels -- Ch. 3. The Exemplary Status of Moral Acts. Meaning in History. History and Evolution as Limits to Moral Meaning. Acts in Moral Space and Time. Moral Judgment as Both Reflective and Determinant. Transition to the Issues of History -- Ch. 4. J.W. Miller and the Midworld of Action. Miller's Role in the Discussion. Miller's Basic Philosophic Stance. The Finite Act as Constitutional. The Role of "Functional Objects" Transition Back to the Original Questions.".
- catalog description "These are the questions that Gary H. Stahl addresses in this original and provocative work. Drawing on arguments from biology and psychology as well as from the history of philosophy, Stahl examines the naturalistic meaning that can be assigned to moral agency, choice, and responsibility, in order to assert the conjunction between ethics and metaphysics. His focus is the process within which the self and the other, defined in terms of each other, emerge within evolution and development so as to generate an irreducible level of meaning.".
- catalog extent "x, 220 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "156639287X (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Philadelphia : Temple University Press,".
- catalog subject "171/.7 20".
- catalog subject "BJ1311 .S76 1995".
- catalog subject "Ethics, Evolutionary.".
- catalog subject "Free will and determinism.".
- catalog subject "Interpersonal relations Moral and ethical aspects.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: The Three Original Questions -- Ch. 1. On Not Reducing Agents to Organisms. People and Process. Levels of Process. The Emergence of Persons within Process. Methodological Problems and Prospects -- Ch. 2. Biological and Ethical Processes. Health at Different Levels of Process. "Health" and "Disease" as Integrative Concepts. Morality as an Ordering Principle. Health and Morality as Levels of Integration. Emergent Levels of Space and Time. Replies to Some Criticisms. Implications of the Bioethical Parallels -- Ch. 3. The Exemplary Status of Moral Acts. Meaning in History. History and Evolution as Limits to Moral Meaning. Acts in Moral Space and Time. Moral Judgment as Both Reflective and Determinant. Transition to the Issues of History -- Ch. 4. J.W. Miller and the Midworld of Action. Miller's Role in the Discussion. Miller's Basic Philosophic Stance. The Finite Act as Constitutional. The Role of "Functional Objects" Transition Back to the Original Questions.".
- catalog title "Human transactions : the emergence of meaning in time / Gary H. Stahl.".
- catalog type "text".