Persons and Valuable Worlds: A Global PhilosophyPersons and Valuable Worlds argues for pluralistic ethics, philosophical anthropology, and epistemology in a cross-cultural context. It provides an account of what it means to be a genuine social and spiritual being--what it means to be a person in the diverse worlds of which we are a part, and to which we contribute in significant ways. It further strives to reintegrate moral and value considerations into philosophy throughout the range of its inquiries. |
Contents
On Being a Person | 3 |
PersonDeception | 37 |
The Performance of Emotions | 51 |
The Body of a Person | 69 |
The ConsciousnessMind of a Person | 85 |
Part 2 | 109 |
The Nonrational and Contemplative Rationality | 111 |
The Universality of Reason and Epistemic Irrationality | 123 |
Part 3 | 183 |
On the Being of Time | 185 |
On the Being of Space | 203 |
Causality Creativity and Freedom | 215 |
Part 4 | 253 |
A Creative Morality | 255 |
Creative Anarchism | 271 |
Destiny and Death | 293 |
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