Variety of Values - Essays on Morality, Meaning, and Love

Zusatztext The Variety of Values is a valuable contribution to contemporary ethics suitable for both professional philosophers and a more general readership. Informationen zum Autor Susan Wolf is the Edna J. Koury Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her work focuses chiefly on ethics and its close relations in philosophy of mind, philosophy of action, political philosophy, and aesthetics. She is author of Freedom Within Reason (OUP, 1990) and Meaning in Life and Why It Matters (Princeton, 2010), and co-editor, with Christopher Grau of Understanding Love: Philosophy, Film, and Fiction (OUP, 2014). Klappentext For over thirty years Susan Wolf has been writing about moral and nonmoral values and the relation between them. This volume collects Wolf's most important essays on the topics of morality, love, and meaning, ranging from her classic essay "Moral Saints" to her most recent "The Importance of Love." Zusammenfassung For over thirty years Susan Wolf has been writing about moral and nonmoral values and the relation between them. This volume collects Wolf's most important essays on the topics of morality, love, and meaning, ranging from her classic essay "Moral Saints" to her most recent "The Importance of Love."

Product details

• Authors: Susan Wolf
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.01.2015
• EAN: 9780195332803
• ISBN: 978-0-19-533280-3
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Philosophy, Kognitivismus, kognitive Theorie, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Ethics & moral philosophy, Bioethics, Ethics and moral philosophy, Bio-ethics