A Question of Values
Six Ways We Make the Personal Choices That Shape Our Lives
by Hunter Lewis
A century ago, the greatest dangers we faced arose from agents outside ourselves: microbes, flood and famine, wolves in the forest at night. Today the greatest dangers-war, pollution, starvation- have their source in our own motives and sentiments: greed and hostility, carelessness and arrogance, narcissism and nationalism. The study of values might once have been a matter of primarily individual concern and deliberation as to how best to lead the "good life." Today it is a matter of collective human survival. Is we identify the study of values as a branch of philosophy, then the times has arrived for all women and men to become philosophers-or else.
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Decision making, Values, Entscheidungsprozess, Wert, Ethics| Edition | Availability |
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A Question of Values : Six Ways We Make the Personal Choices That Shape Our Lives
May 25, 2000, Axios Press
Paperback
in English
- Rev Upd edition
0966190831 9780966190830
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A question of values: six ways we make the personal choices that shape our lives
1991, HarperSanFrancisco
in English
- 1st HarperCollins pbk. ed.
0062505327 9780062505323
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A question of values: six ways we make the personal choices that shape our lives
1990, Harper & Row
in English
- 1st ed.
0062505211 9780062505217
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"An objective observer, a proverbial Martian visiting this planet for the first time, would be struck, not by the unity, but by the unpredictability, the almost madcap complexity, and the incessant quarrelsomeness of human values."
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