- Instructor:
- Richard
Lee (Office
hours)
- Course number:
- PHIL 5913 (SAFARI
number: 03029)
- Time:
- T 3:30 p.m. - 5:50 p.m.
- Room:
- MAIN
325
- Pre-requisites:
- Graduate standing or permission of the
instructor
- Brief Description:
-
This seminar will be a philosophical examination of the general notion of
value, which is the common anchor of ethics, aesthetics, and political
philosophy. Topics to be covered include the fact/value
distinction, the
objectivity, subjectivity, or relativity of values, kinds of values,
values and points of view, hedonism, and the relationship between values
and rationality. We will look at historical thinkers (including
Aristotle, Hume, Kant, Bentham, Mill, and Moore) and contemporary views,
focusing on the recent book, Value and the Good Life by
Thomas Carson.
- Text:
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Other information:
Richard Lee,
rlee@comp.uark.edu,
last modified: 5 September