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Ethics, Volume II, Moral Values by Nicolai Hartmann; with a new introduction by Andreas A.M. Kinneging is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Nicolai Hartmann (1882-1950), along with Henri Bergson and Martin Heidegger, was instrumental in restoring metaphysics to the study of philosophy. Unlike his contemporaries, however, Hartmann was clearly influenced by Plato. His tour-de-force, Ethik, published in English in 1932 as Ethics, may be the most outstanding work on moral philosophy produced in the twentieth century. In the first part of Ethics (Moral Phenomena), Hartmann was concerned with the structure of ethical phenomena, and criticized utilitarianism, Kantianism, and relativism as misleading approaches. In the second part, Moral Values, the author describes all values as forming a complex and as yet imperfectly known system. The actualization of the non-moral and elementary moral values is a necessary condition for the actualization of the higher values. It is on this account that rudimentary values have a prior claim. Hartmann outlines the main features of the chief virtues, and shows that the moral disposition required in any exigency is always a specific synthesis of various and often conflicting values. Specifically describing fundamental moral values-such as goodness, nobility, and vitality-and special moral val

Who reads Ethics, Volume II, Moral Values?

Author

Nicolai Hartmann; with a new introduction by Andreas A.M. Kinneging

Publisher

Transaction Publishers

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9781138528369

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Medical, Humanities