The Individual and the Value of Human Life (Studies in Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy) - Hardcover

Popper-Lynkeus, Joseph; Kelley, Andrew; Haber, Joram Graf

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0847680355 ISBN 13: 9780847680351

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, 1995

Synopsis

The Individual and the Value of Human Life brings to the English-speaking world the ideas of Joseph Popper-Lynkeus, an Austrian philosopher, scientist, and social reformer who enjoyed great fame at the beginning of the 20th century and whose admirers included Einstein, Freud, Ernest Mach, and Karl Raymond Popper. Originally published in Germany in 1910, the book contains the ethical underpinnings of a social philosophy in which the individual is put forward as having inestimable value. Against theorists such as Hegel and Spencer whose writings bristle with contempt for the common man, Popper-Lynkeus puts forward an individualistic ethic that is at once a proposal for a welfare state, a critique of involuntary conscription, a recommendation for penal reform, and a criticism of metaphysics and religion. Haber's introduction includes a biographical essay and discussion and analysis of the book's central ideas.

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About the Author

Andrew Kelley is Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Iowa, and has studied in Marburg and Vienna.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0847680355
• ISBN 13: 9780847680351
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 180