Human Transactions: The Emergence of Meaning in TimeTemple University Press, 1995 - 220 pagini These are the questions that Gary H. Stahl addresses in this original and provocative work. Drawing on arguments from biology and psychology as well as from the history of philosophy, Stahl examines the naturalistic meaning that can be assigned to moral agency, choice, and responsibility, in order to assert the conjunction between ethics and metaphysics. His focus is the process within which the self and the other, defined in terms of each other, emerge within evolution and development so as to generate an irreducible level of meaning. |
Cuprins
Chapter | 3 |
Chapter | 8 |
Chapter 2 | 26 |
The Exemplary Status of Moral Acts | 51 |
Transition to the Issues of History | 65 |
Transition Back to the Original Questions | 84 |
Chapter 6 | 102 |
Chapter 7 | 120 |
Albert Hofstadter and the Dialectic of Process | 141 |
Chapter 9 | 164 |
Notes | 195 |
213 | |
Termeni și expresii frecvente
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