Rationality, Virtue, and Liberation by Stephen Petro

Rationality, Virtue, and Liberation by Stephen Petro

This book explores the overlooked but vital theoretical relationships between R. M. Hare, Alan Gewirth, and Jürgen Habermas. The author claims their accounts of value, while failing to address classic virtue-theoretical critiques, bear the seeds of a resolution to the ultimate question “What is most valuable?” These dialectical approaches, as claimed, justify a reinterpretation of value and value judgment according to the Carnapian conception of an empirical-linguistic framework or grammar. Through a further synthesis with the work of Philippa Foot and Thomas Magnell, the author shows that “value” would be literally meaningless without four fundamental phenomena which constitute such a framework: Logical Judgment, Conceptual Synthesis, Conceptual Abstraction, and Freedom. As part of the 'grammar of goodness,' the excellence of these phenomena, in a highly concrete way, constitute the essence of the greatest good, as this book explains.

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ISBN 13	9783319346540
ISBN 10	3319346547
Title	Rationality, Virtue, and Liberation
Author	Stephen Petro
Series	Library Of Ethics And Applied Philosophy
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Springer International Publishing AG
Year published	2016-08-23
Number of pages	327
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