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Rationality, Virtue, and Liberation

A Post-Dialectical Theory of Value

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Authors:
  1. Stephen Petro

    1. Columbia University, New York, USA

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  • Analyzes the woefully overlooked philosophical interchange between Gewirth and Habermas on the vital issue of the dialectical method in ethics and value theory
  • Provides a strong and controversial critique of anti-foundationalism so prevalent in contemporary value theory and philosophy
  • Radically revises the concept of rationality and challenges conventional analytic and continental views alike

Part of the book series: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy (LOET, volume 33)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Stephen Petro
    Pages 1-7

  3. Rethinking Rationality

    • Stephen Petro
    Pages 9-63

  4. Rationality and Dialectical Necessity

    • Stephen Petro
    Pages 65-174

  5. The Dialectical Structure of Value Judgments

    • Stephen Petro
    Pages 175-195

  6. Virtue and the Search for Intrinsic Goodness

    • Stephen Petro
    Pages 197-219

  7. Beyond Dialectical Necessity: Assertoric Necessity and the Grammar of Goodness

    • Stephen Petro
    Pages 221-308

  8. Conclusion

    • Stephen Petro
    Pages 309-317

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 319-327
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Columbia University, New York, USA

    Stephen Petro

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Rationality, Virtue, and Liberation

  • Book Subtitle: A Post-Dialectical Theory of Value

  • Authors: Stephen Petro

  • Series Title: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02285-7

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-02284-0Published: 03 December 2013

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34654-0Published: 23 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-02285-7Published: 19 November 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1387-6678

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0323

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 327

  • Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Ethics

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