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- catalog abstract ""James R. Flynn rejects attempts to salvage ethical objectivity as futile and counter-productive. Instead, he uses philosophical analysis to demonstrate the relevance of logic and evidence to moral debate. He then uses modern social science to refute racists, Social Darwinists, Nietzsche, and the meritocracy thesis of The Bell Curve. Flynn concludes that the great post-Enlightenment project - justice for all races and classes, the reduction of inequality, and the abolition of privilege - retains its moral dignity and relevance."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11505913.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""James R. Flynn rejects attempts to salvage ethical objectivity as futile and counter-productive. Instead, he uses philosophical analysis to demonstrate the relevance of logic and evidence to moral debate. He then uses modern social science to refute racists, Social Darwinists, Nietzsche, and the meritocracy thesis of The Bell Curve. Flynn concludes that the great post-Enlightenment project - justice for all races and classes, the reduction of inequality, and the abolition of privilege - retains its moral dignity and relevance."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-204) and indexes.".
- catalog description "Introduction: the Problem -- Truth-Tests and What We Have Lost -- The Limitations of Philosophy -- Plato and Thrasymachus -- Truth-Tests and Proofs -- Kant and Sister Simplice -- Transition: An Agenda -- Morality and Moral Debate -- The Potency of Social Science -- Race and Class -- Superpeople and Supermen -- Justice and Meritocracy -- Humanism and Postmodernism -- Conclusion: Unsolved Problems -- The Personal and the Conventional.".
- catalog extent "212 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0803219946 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press,".
- catalog subject "171/.2 21".
- catalog subject "BJ1360 .F58 2000".
- catalog subject "Humanistic ethics.".
- catalog subject "Social sciences and ethics.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: the Problem -- Truth-Tests and What We Have Lost -- The Limitations of Philosophy -- Plato and Thrasymachus -- Truth-Tests and Proofs -- Kant and Sister Simplice -- Transition: An Agenda -- Morality and Moral Debate -- The Potency of Social Science -- Race and Class -- Superpeople and Supermen -- Justice and Meritocracy -- Humanism and Postmodernism -- Conclusion: Unsolved Problems -- The Personal and the Conventional.".
- catalog title "How to defend humane ideals : substitutes for objectivity / James R. Flynn.".
- catalog type "text".