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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...
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A provocative account of the creation of human meaning in history
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"This is an original and provocative work that asserts—and arguably demonstrates—the conjunction between ethics and metaphysics. Stahl writes in an authentic and distinctive voice; he not only presents arguments—it is clear that he also believes them. The point he stresses repeatedly is not a version of 'compatibilism' between science and ethics, between the material and moral worlds—but the necessity of the relation between them (and so...
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- PublisherTemple University Press
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 156639287X
- ISBN 13 9781566392877
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages220
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