{"product_id":"between-freedom-and-necessity-an-essay-on-the-place-of-value-9789042013025","title":"Between Freedom and Necessity: An Essay on the Place of Value","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis extended essay joins an old conversation at the intersection of freedom and necessity. Though it takes place at the beginning of the twenty-first century by the “Christian” reckoning that has become an integral part of European identity, it will at times read like a conversation between classical Greece and nineteenth-century Europe. The cast consists of characters drawn from Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Plato as well as the authors themselves - Plato, Aristotle, Locke, Hume, Kant, Kierkegaard, MacIntyre, and Nussbaum. Some of these writers have been associated with displaced, displacing claims of universality; but each is in place and in time in ways that are instructive for ethics. Myth, the matter of stories, becomes also the matter of critical reflection, which in turn is subjected to critical reflection. Every fragment of philosophy is a contribution to the reflection, and it is nothing if it is separated from the matter - the stories, the myths, and the characters (including us) who both make them and live in them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFOREWORD by Thomas Magnell PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ONE Walking Backwards 1. From Is to Ought: The Place of Value 2. Freedom and Necessity 3. Orientation  TWO A Labor Theory of Value 1. Alienation and Objectification 2. Symbols and Signs 3. Possibility and Play  THREE The End of Ethics 1. A Principle of Utility 2. Silence 3. Activity, State, and Habit  FOUR Virtue in Action 1. Two Arts 2. A Science of Measurement 3. Living Life and Saving It 4. Numbering and Knowing 5. Knowledge and Desire  FIVE The Shape of Character 1. Prudence 2. The Order of That Which Has Parts 3. Vulnerability 4. Active Desire 5. Perception and Passion 6. The Necessity of Experience  SIX The Shape of the City 1. A Hunt 2. A Poetics of Particulars 3. Culture and Nature 4. Entropy and Art  SEVEN Nature and Human Nature 1. The Way of Revolution 2. The Language of Rights  EIGHT Cultivating Rules 1. Practical Reason 2. Moral Development  NINE Rule and Relationship 1. The Soul of Tragedy 2. The Temptation of Knowledge  TEN Confession and Community 1. Status Confessionis 2. Profession  ELEVEN Practicing Value 1. Kenosis 2. Reading the West 3. Embracing the World  REFERENCES ABOUT THE AUTHOR INDEX","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210892665175,"sku":"9789042013025","price":37.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/between-freedom-and-necessity-an-essay-on-the-place-of-value-9789042013025","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}