Persons and Valuable Worlds A Global Philosophy

by Deutsch, Eliot

• ISBN13: 9780742512153
• ISBN10: 0742512150
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-12-04
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Persons and Valuable Worlds argues for pluralistic ethics, philosophical anthropology, and epistemology in a cross-cultural context. It provides an account of what it means to be a genuine social and spiritual being--what it means to be a person in the diverse worlds of which we are a part, and to which we contribute in significant ways. It further strives to reintegrate moral and value considerations into philosophy throughout the range of its inquiries.

Author Biography

Eliot Deutsch is chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Hawai'i

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Part I
On Being a Person	3	(34)
Person-Deception	37	(14)
The Performance of Emotions	51	(18)
The Body of a Person	69	(16)
The Consciousness/Mind of a Person	85	(26)
Part II
The Nonrational and Contemplative Rationality	111	(12)
The Universality of Reason and Epistemic Irrationality	123	(22)
Moral Values and Justificatory Rationality	145	(14)
Epistemic Portraiture	159	(12)
Creative Rationality	171	(14)
Part III
On the Being of Time	185	(18)
On the Being of Space	203	(12)
Causality, Creativity, and Freedom	215	(40)
Part IV
A Creative Morality	255	(16)
Creative Anarchism	271	(22)
Destiny and Death	293	(8)
Index	301	(8)
About the Author	309