A Question of Values
Six Ways We Make the Personal Choices That Shape Our Lives
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Word Count
73,750 words, Guess
Page Count
295 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Internet Archivequestionofvalues0000lewi_n6p6
- ISBN-100966190831
- ISBN-139780966190830
- Goodreads1068576
- Library of Congress Control Number99060982
and 3 more
- OCLC Control Number46327415
- Better World Books9780966190830
- Open LibraryOL8532497M
Classifications
- LCCBD232 .L48
- LCCBD232 .L48 2000
Description
A century ago, the greatest dangers we faced arose from agents outside ourselves: microbes, flood and famine, wolves in the forest at night. Today the greatest dangers-war, pollution, starvation- have their source in our own motives and sentiments: greed and hostility, carelessness and arrogance, narcissism and nationalism. The study of values might once have been a matter of primarily individual concern and deliberation as to how best to lead the "good life." Today it is a matter of collective human survival. Is we identify the study of values as a branch of philosophy, then the times has arrived for all women and men to become philosophers-or else.
First Sentence
An objective observer, a proverbial Martian visiting this planet for the first time, would be struck, not by the unity, but by the unpredictability, the almost madcap complexity, and the incessant quarrelsomeness of human values.
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