Value Ethical Objectivity Study by Jury Gordon (2 results)
Published by George Allen & Unwin Ltd., London, 1937
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Monroe Street Books, Middlebury, VT, U.S.A.Monroe Street Books
Contact seller4-star sellerCondition: Good. None. 258 pages. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering along edge. Blue reminder spray, top edge. Water marks to boards. Tight copy. Record # 855816.
More imagesPublished by George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1937
- Hardcover
Seller: Flamingo Books, Menifee, CA, U.S.A.Flamingo Books
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good. 1937 first edition George Allen and Unwin (London), 5 1/2 x 8 inches tall blue cloth hardcover in publisher's dust jacket, gilt lettering to spine, 258 pp. plus publisher's ads. Slight to moderate soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers, with minor bumping to the spine tips. Otherwise, apart from a co…uple of pages with slight marginal soiling, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - in a soiled, rubbed and chipped dust jacket which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival Brodart sleeve. ~QQ~ [1.5P] A defense of the irreducible status of value and its authority for moral conduct. Inclusive, restrictive and exclusive theories of the relations of ethics to value theory are analyzed. Attempts to define ethical terms in terms of various orders of reference are examined. Influences tending to ethical subjectivism are reviewed, and it is maintained that the failure to distinguish the psychological conditioning of judgments from the truth of the propositions entertained is a source of this subjectivism. The objective reference of ethical propositions is considered and ethical predication is held to be not only characterizing but imperative in mode. It is suggested, in closing, that theories attempting psychological definitions of value, while failing in this, offer criteria for the verification of value's objective validity.
