A question of values : six ways we make the personal choices that shape our lives /

A question of values : six ways we make the personal choices that shape our lives /

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Author / Creator:Lewis, Hunter.
Edition:1st ed.
Imprint:San Francisco : Harper & Row, ©1990.
Description:xi, 282 pages ; 22 cm
Language:English
Subject:
Values.
Decision making.
Decision making.
Values.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13239755
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ISBN:0062505211
9780062505217
0062505327
9780062505323
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-268) and index.
committed to retain from JKM Seminaries Library 2023 JKM University of Chicago Library
Summary:What personal values are. How we decide about them. What the alternatives are. Seventy-eight value systems featured. Used in classrooms at Harvard and around the world. Praised by educators from Harvard, Yale, Stanford, the Institute for Advanced Study, the University of Virginia, Berea College and elsewhere.
Other form:Online version: Lewis, Hunter. Question of values. 1st ed. San Francisco : Harper & Row, ©1990
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. A question of values: an introduction. The initial question
  • Sorting it out: six ways we choose values
  • Part 2. Six basic types of value systems. Value systems based on authority
  • Value systems based on logic
  • Values systems based on sense experience
  • Value systems based on emotion
  • Value systems based on intuition
  • Value systems based on "science"
  • Part 3. Variations on a theme. The cross-fertilization of values
  • Four examples: Karl Barth, Albert Einstein, Mohandas Gandhi, Golda Meir
  • Why values get so complicated.

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