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9780765805669

Foundations of Futures Studies: Volume 2: Values, Objectivity, and the Good Society

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    9780765805669

  • ISBN10:

    0765805669

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2004-03-31
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Now available in paperback with a new preface from the author, Volume 2 of Foundations of Futuress Studies moves beyond cultural relativism to critical evaluation. Bell compares depictions of the good society by utopian writers, describes objective methods of moral judgment, assesses religion and law as sources of what is morally right, documents the existence of universal human values, and shows that if human beings are to thrive in the global society of the future, some human values must be changed.

Table of Contents

List of Figures
ix
List of Tables
x
Acknowledgements xi
Preface to the 2004 Edition xiii
Introduction 1(6)
Values in Utopian Thought
7(60)
Making Value Judgments Objectively: How do We Decide What is Preferable?
67(46)
Some Practical Strategies for Judging Preferable Futures
113(58)
Universal Human Values
171(58)
The Quantity of Human Life
229(50)
What Human Values Ought to be Changed?
279(36)
Epilogue 315(18)
References 333(40)
References (2004) 373(4)
Index 377(8)
About the Author 385

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