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18The basics of Western philosophyHumanity Books. 2004.The activity of philosophy -- The problems of philosophy.
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8Journeys through philosophy: a classical introduction (edited book)Prometheus Books. 1977.When Journeys Through Philosophy first appeared in 1977, it quickly established a reputation as one of the most complete and versatile introductory philosophy textbooks for the beginning student. Combining carefully chosen selections from the original works of many eminent philosophers with invaluable commentaries designed to illuminate the ideas of these great minds, and an extensive section on how one should read philosophy, the editors have answered the instructional needs of students and tea…Read more
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36Letters to the EditorProceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 71 (2). 1997.
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27Saulius Geniusas: Phenomenology of Productive Imagination. Embodiment, Language, SubjectivityHusserl Studies 39 (1): 113-120. 2023.
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10Structure and Diversity: Studies in the Phenomenological Philosophy of Max SchelerSpringer Verlag. 1997.FOUNDATIONALISM IN PHILOSOPHY n his autobiographical work, The Education of Henry Adams, this I brooding and disillusioned offspring of American presidents confronted, at age sixty, his own perplexity concerning the new scientific world-view that was emerging at the end of the century. He noted that the unity of things, long guaranteed morally by the teachings of Christianity and scientifically by the Newtonian world-view, was being challenged by a newer vision of things that found only incompre…Read more
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12Ethics and the search for values (edited book)Prometheus Books. 1980.An essential introduction to ethics and values, this comprehensive anthology places the perennial human search for ethical values into historical perspective. The philosophers included are: Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius, Bentham, Cicero, Dewey, Hartman, Hume, James, Kant, Kierkegaard, Mill, Moore, Nietzsche, Plato, Sartre, Scheler, Schopenhauer, Spencer, Spinoza, St. Augustine, and Stevenson.
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21Hartmann on the Unity of Moral ValueIn Roberto Poli, Carlo Scognamiglio & Frederic Tremblay (eds.), The Philosophy of Nicolai Hartmann, Walter De Gruyter. pp. 177--93. 2011.
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70Revisiting Max Scheler's formalism in ethics: Virtue-based ethics and moral rules in the non-formal ethics of value (review)Journal of Value Inquiry 31 (3): 381-397. 1997.
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36Material Ethics of Value: Max Scheler and Nicolai HartmannSpringer. 2011.This volume demonstrates that their contributions to a material ethics of value are complementary: by supplementing the work of one with that of the other, we obtain a comprehensive and defensible axiological and moral theory.
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4Co-published with the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology, this book is a collection of 10 original translations of articles written by philosophers on the topics of art and aesthetics in the 20th century. It is a significant contribution to the subject of aesthetics in making available previously untranslated texts by European philosophers. Suitable for courses in the philosophy of art, aesthetics and art history
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56A Postscript to Max Scheler’s “On the Rehabilitation of Virtue”American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 79 (1): 39-43. 2005.The translator of Scheler’s essay, “On the Rehabilitation of Virtue,” presents an account of the context of this essay in Scheler’s work and of its relevance to his concept of the ordo amoris and to his critique of Kant. The translator discusses the intended audience of the essay, its moral purpose, and the method of its procedure. The postscript further reflects on the essay’s central themes of humility and reverence, suggesting avenues for a critical assessment of Scheler’s conclusions. It end…Read more
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97Material Value-Ethics: Max Scheler and Nicolai HartmannPhilosophy Compass 3 (1): 1-16. 2007.Although Max Scheler (1874–1928) and Nicolai Hartmann (1882–1950) were contemporaries and wrote under the influence of the phenomenological movement, the large differences between their initiatives and achievements in philosophy resulted in scholars rarely reading them together. However, they shared one major concept in ethics, that of material value ethics. This ethics is (1) non‐formal, and involves a profound criticism of Kantian ethical formalism, and (2) is founded in a phenomenology of the…Read more
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5Philosophy, Aesthetic Experience, and the Liberal ArtsThe Journal of Aesthetic Education 17 (3): 5. 1983.
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