How to defend humane ideals : substitutes for objectivity /
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| Author / Creator: | Flynn, James R. (James Robert), 1934- |
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| Imprint: | Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2000. |
| Description: | 212 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4281817 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: the Problem
- 1.. Truth-Tests and What We Have Lost
- Part 1. The Limitations of Philosophy
- 2.. Plato and Thrasymachus
- 3.. Truth-Tests and Proofs
- 4.. Kant and Sister Simplice
- Transition: An Agenda
- 5.. Morality and Moral Debate
- Part 2. The Potency of Social Science
- 6.. Race and Class
- 7.. Superpeople and Supermen
- 8.. Justice and Meritocracy
- 9.. Humanism and Postmodernism
- Conclusion: Unsolved Problems
- 10.. The Personal and the Conventional
- References
- Subject Index
- Author Index