This book presents Robert S. Hartman's formal theory of value and critically examines many other twentieth century value theorists in its light, including A.J. Ayer, Kurt Baier, Brand Blanshard, Paul Edwards, Albert Einstein, William K. Frankena, R.M. Hare, Nicolai Hartmann, Martin Heidegger, G.E. Moore, P.H. Nowell-Smith, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Charles Stevenson, Paul W. Taylor, Stephen E. Toulmin, and J.O. Urmson.
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This book presents Robert S. Hartman's formal theory of value and critically examines many other twentieth century value theorists in its light, including A.J. Ayer, Kurt Baier, Brand Blanshard, Paul Edwards, Albert Einstein, William K. Frankena, R.M. Hare, Nicolai Hartmann, Martin Heidegger, G.E. Moore, P.H. Nowell-Smith, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Charles Stevenson, Paul W. Taylor, Stephen E. Toulmin, and J.O. Urmson.
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New. 904201220X. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-FLAWLESS COPY, BRAND NEW, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED 484 pages; clean and crisp, tight and bright pages, with no writing or markings to the text. --DESCRIPTION: This book presents Robert S. Hartman's formal theory of value and critically examines many other twentieth century value theorists in its light, including A. J. Ayer, Kurt Baier, Brand Blanshard, Paul Edwards, Albert Einstein, William K. Frankena, R. M. Hare, Nicolai Hartmann, Martin Heidegger, G. E. Moore, P. H. Nowell-Smith, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Charles Stevenson, Paul W. Taylor, Stephen E. Toulmin, and J. O. Urmson. --TABLE OF CONTENTS: Editorial Foreword * Acknowledgments * 1 The Knowledge of Value 3 * 1 The Nature of Critique 3 * 2 The Axiological Fallacies 5 * 3 The Cognition of Value 11 * 2 The Levels of Value Language 25 * 1 First Level: Empirical Value Language 28 * 2 Second Level: Analysis of Empirical Value Language 34 * 3 Third Level: Systematic Value Language 49 * 3 Value Science and Natural Science 53 * 1 The Present State of Ethical Theory 53 * 2 The Formal Analogy Between Natural Science and Moral Science 56 * 3 Primary Qualities in Science and in Ethics 65 * 4 Moore's Metaethics: The Science of Good 75 * 1 Moore's Axiomatic of the Science of Ethics 77 * 2 The Axiomatic of the Science of Value 95 * 5 Non-Cognitivists and Semi-Cognitivists 103 * 1 Non-Cognitivists 103 * 2 Semi-(Non)-Cognitivists 106 * 6 Naturalistic Cognitivists 163 * 1 Naturalistic Empiricists 165 * 2 Naturalistic Formalists 182 * 7 Non-Naturalistic Cognitivists 209 * 1 Non-Naturalistic Empiricists 209 * 2 Non-Naturalistic Formalists 235 * 3 The Formal Nature of Value: Axiological Science 249 * 8 The Axiological Value of Reason 257 * 1 The Logical Necessity of Reason in Moral Conduct 259 * 2 The Logical Relation Between "Is" and "Ought" 269 * 9 The Symbolization of Value 277 * 1 The Transposition of Synthetic System and Analytic Reality 277 * 2 Analytic and Synthetic Formulae: "Exemplification" and Intensional Fulfillment 281 * 3 The Symbolization of "Ought" 289 * 4 Analytic Shorthand and Synthetic Symbolization 295 * 10 The Measurement of Value 307 * 1 Analytic Reality and Synthetic Reality 307 * 2 Analytic and Synthetic Measurement of Value 309 * 3 Analytic "Value Measurement" 316 * 4 Synthetic Value Measurement and Prediction 324 * 11 The Formalization of Value 339 * 1 The Non-Reality of Value 339 * 2 The Situational Reality of Value 360 * 3 The Formal Reality of Value 364 * Notes 373 * Bibliography 413 * About the Author and the Editors 445 * Index 449. --with a bonus offer--