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- catalog abstract ""Moving easily among the realms of literature, philosophy, biology, physics, mathematics, ethics, art, and religion, J.T. Fraser excavates the foundations of human values and elucidates their role in the lives of individuals, societies, and the historical process. Positing that the need for human values arises from the necessity to control the unbounded imaginative powers of the mind, Fraser reveals time as an essential constituent of the principles of selection that determine values, rather than merely a backdrop against which the stability of values may be tested."--Jacket. "Over the course of history, Fraser argues, human values have served primarily not as conservative influences that promote permanence, continuity, and balance - as commonly believed - but as revolutionary forces that, in the long run, promote change by generating and sustaining certain unresolvable conflicts."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11349354.
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description ""Moving easily among the realms of literature, philosophy, biology, physics, mathematics, ethics, art, and religion, J.T. Fraser excavates the foundations of human values and elucidates their role in the lives of individuals, societies, and the historical process. Positing that the need for human values arises from the necessity to control the unbounded imaginative powers of the mind, Fraser reveals time as an essential constituent of the principles of selection that determine values, rather than merely a backdrop against which the stability of values may be tested."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""Over the course of history, Fraser argues, human values have served primarily not as conservative influences that promote permanence, continuity, and balance - as commonly believed - but as revolutionary forces that, in the long run, promote change by generating and sustaining certain unresolvable conflicts."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "The Peruvian Laboratory -- 1. Perspectives on a Strange Walker -- 2. Perspectives on Time and Conflict -- 3. The Many Kinds of Truths: Guidelines for Beliefs -- 4. Good and Evil: Guidelines for Conduct -- 5. The Beautiful and the Ugly: Guidelines for the Management of Emotions -- 6. The Global Laboratory -- Out of Plato's Cave -- App. A. Time and the Origin of Life -- App. B. Complexity and Its Measure -- App. C. Entropy: Its Uses and Abuses -- App. D. A World without History: The Astral Geometry of Gauss -- App. E. The Self-Scanning of the Brain.".
- catalog extent "306 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0252024761 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Urbana : University of Illinois Press,".
- catalog subject "115 21".
- catalog subject "BD638 .F68 1999".
- catalog subject "Conflict (Psychology)".
- catalog subject "Good and evil.".
- catalog subject "Time.".
- catalog subject "Truth.".
- catalog subject "Values.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The Peruvian Laboratory -- 1. Perspectives on a Strange Walker -- 2. Perspectives on Time and Conflict -- 3. The Many Kinds of Truths: Guidelines for Beliefs -- 4. Good and Evil: Guidelines for Conduct -- 5. The Beautiful and the Ugly: Guidelines for the Management of Emotions -- 6. The Global Laboratory -- Out of Plato's Cave -- App. A. Time and the Origin of Life -- App. B. Complexity and Its Measure -- App. C. Entropy: Its Uses and Abuses -- App. D. A World without History: The Astral Geometry of Gauss -- App. E. The Self-Scanning of the Brain.".
- catalog title "Time, conflict, and human values / J. T. Fraser.".
- catalog type "text".