The Variety of Values: Essays on Morality, Meaning, and Love
Author:   Susan Wolf
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
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9780195332803


Pages:   288
Publication Date:   12 February 2015
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Susan Wolf
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.90cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 16.00cm
Weight:   0.570kg
ISBN:  

9780195332803


ISBN 10:   0195332806
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   12 February 2015
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction Part I: Moral and Nonmoral Values 2. Moral Saints 3. Morality and Partiality 4. Morality and the View From Here 5. Good-for-Nothings Part II: Meaning in Life 6. The Meanings of Lives 7. Happiness and Meaning: Two Aspects of the Good Life 8. Meaning and Morality Part III: Love 9. One Thought Too Many: Love, Morality, and the Ordering of Commitment 10. Loving Attention: Lessons in Love from The Philadelphia Story 11. The Importance of Love Part IV: The Concept of Duty 12. Above and Below the Line of Duty 13. The Role of Rules 14. Moral Obligations and Social Commands

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The Variety of Values is a valuable contribution to contemporary ethics suitable for both professional philosophers and a more general readership. Lucas Scripter, The Philosophical Quarterly


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Susan Wolf is the Edna J. Koury Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her work focuses chiefly on ethics and its close relations in philosophy of mind, philosophy of action, political philosophy, and aesthetics. She is author of Freedom Within Reason (OUP, 1990) and Meaning in Life and Why It Matters (Princeton, 2010), and co-editor, with Christopher Grau of Understanding Love: Philosophy, Film, and Fiction (OUP, 2014).

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