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<p>In the diverse but related essays collected in <i>Values and Evaluations</i>, Julius Kovesi's central concerns are the nature of ideological thinking and the rational core of morality. "It is characteristic of ideological beliefs that their truth is upheld independent of the arguments for them," he contends. He examines ideological tendencies in the Marxist tradition, in attempts to demythologize Christianity, and in modern British ethical theory. In ethics, he continues the attack on the fact/value dichotomy he began in Moral Notions, a dichotomy he thinks has ideological sources. In theology, he argues that demythologizing is really a form of "remythologizing." A long study of Moses Hess's essay On the Essence of Money is used to illuminate the early thought of Marx.</p>

Author

Julius Kovesi

Publisher

Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780820438085

Subjects

Philosophy, Humanities