Philosophy, Religious, Relationships, Major Branches of Philosophical Study, Psychology - Theory, History & Research, Ethics & Moral Philosophy
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Overview
Moving easily among the realms of literature, philosophy, biology, physics, mathematics, ethics, art, and religion, J. T. Fraser excavates the foundations of human values and elucidates their role in the lives of individuals, societies, and the historical process. Positing that the need for human values arises from the necessity to control the unbounded imaginative powers of the mind, Fraser reveals time as an essential constituent of the principles of selection that determine values, rather than merely a backdrop against which the stability of values may be tested.. "Over the course of history, Fraser argues, human values have served primarily not as conservative influences that promote permanence, continuity, and balance - as commonly believed - but as revolutionary forces that, in the long run, promote change by generating and sustaining certain unresolvable conflicts.Book Details
Published
October 1, 1999
Publisher
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1999.
Pages
320
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780252024764