How to Defend Humane Ideals
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-0-8032-1994-6 (ISBN)
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One of the principal moral and psychological problems of our time is whether humane ideals can be defended. Loss of faith in the objectivity of ethics has encouraged a sense of hopelessness. The notion that no ideal is better than any other, that a humane commitment has no rational advantage over Nietzsche's contempt for ordinary people, has been accused of leaving our civilization without self-confidence or a purpose. James R. Flynn rejects attempts to salvage ethical objectivity as futile and counterproductive. Instead, he uses philosophical analysis to demonstrate the relevance of logic and evidence to moral debate. He then uses modern social science to refute racists, Social Darwinists, Nietzsche, and the meritocracy thesis of The Bell Curve. Flynn concludes that the great post-Enlightenment project 'justice for all races and classes, the reduction of inequality, and the abolition of privilege' retains its moral dignity and relevance
A professor emeritus at the University of Otago, New Zealand, James R. Flynn is the author of Asian Americans: Achievement beyond IQ and Race, IQ, and Jensen. He has been profiled in Scientific American, and his research has been reviewed in Nature and Newsweek.
Contents: Acknowledgements Introduction: The Problem 1. Truth-Tests and What Has Been Lost What We Can No Longer Say Why We Must Change Part One: The Limitations of Philosophy 2. Plato and Thrasymachus 3. Truth-Tests and Proof 4. Kant and Sister Simplice Transition: An Agenda 5. Morality and Moral Debate Part Two: The Potency of Social Science 6. Race and Class Racism and Book Reviews The Marx of the Middle Classes 7. Superpeople and Supermen The Only True Social Darwinist Nietzsche and His Supermen What They Have in Common 8. Justice and Meritocracy Blacks as a Disadvantaged Group Blacks and Affirmative Action Equality and Meritocracy 9. Humanism and Postmodernism The Postmodern Agenda Humane Empiricists and the Six Balls Postmodernism and Empiricism Ex Nilhilo Nihil Fit Conclusion: Unsolved Problems 10. The Personal and the Conventional References Author Index Subject Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.12.2000 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Lincoln |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 150 x 250 mm |
| Gewicht | 666 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8032-1994-6 / 0803219946 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8032-1994-6 / 9780803219946 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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