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Realms of value; a critique of human civilization.

Title
Realms of value; a critique of human civilization.
Author
Perry, Ralph Barton, 1876-1957.
Publication
Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1954.

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Description
xii, 497 pages; 25 cm
Subject
  • Values
  • Civilization, Modern
  • Wertphilosophie
  • Waarden
  • Ethiek
  • Civilisation moderne
  • Wertphilosophie
Note
  • "An expansion and revision of the Gifford lectures on natural religion delivered at the University of Glasgow in 1946-47 and 1947-48."
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliographical footnotes.
Contents
ch. 1. The definition of value in terms of interest -- ch. 2. Motor-affective psychology -- ch. 3. The object of interest -- ch. 4. Gradation, integration, and mutation -- ch. 5. Modes of interest -- ch. 6. The meaning of morality -- ch. 7. The interpretation of moral concepts -- ch. 8. The proof of moral knowledge -- ch. 9. Social organization -- ch. 10. Social institutions -- ch. 11. The cultural science and their methods -- ch. 12. Conscience and ethics -- ch. 13. Polity and political science -- ch. 14. Law and jurisprudence -- ch. 15. Economy and economics -- ch. 16. The claims of democracy -- ch. 17. Science and the science of science -- ch. 18. Art and aesthetics -- ch. 19. Culture, civilization, and sociology -- ch. 20. The history of history -- ch. 21. Education and the science of education -- ch. 22. Value and metaphysics -- ch. 23. Religion and philosophy of religion.
ISBN
  • 9780674430419
  • 0674430417
LCCN
  • 53010867
  • 10.4159/harvard.9780674430419
OCLC
  • ocm00936437
  • 936437
  • SCSB-742789
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library