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Values and Valuing: Speculations on the Ethical Life of Persons - Hardcover

Nerlich, Graham

 
9780198248477: Values and Valuing: Speculations on the Ethical Life of Persons
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0198248474 ISBN 13: 9780198248477
Publisher: Clarendon Press, 1990

Synopsis

This provocative book argues that people are naturally endowed with the ability to speak an articulate language and to form a culture. Language and cultural life require self-appraisal, and hence an evolution--through self-conflict--of desires into values. Nerlich demonstrates that this valuing is a natural process, one that underlies the morals of duty and obligation. He concludes that such valuing will be good only if it results in objective values that are authentic to the individual's nature and surrounding culture.

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About the Author

Graham Nerlich is at University of Adelaide.

From the Back Cover

Valuing is a natural process for persons. It underlies the morals of duty and obligation, which can be understood only after valuing is explained. This is the central moral claim of the book. Normal human animals are naturally endowed with certain attributes for being persons, speakers of an articulate language living in a culture.

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Publisher
Clarendon Press
Publication date
1990
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0198248474
ISBN 13 
9780198248477
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
226