Material Ethics of Value: Max Scheler and Nicolai Hartmann

• Main Author: Kelly, E. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
• Series: Phaenomenologica, Published Under the Auspices of the Husserl-Archives, 203
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Epistemology.; Ethics.; Modern philosophy.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Phenomenology.; Modern Philosophy.; Philosophy of Education.

Max Scheler and Nicolai Hartmann developed ethics upon a phenomenological basis. 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...

Table of Contents:

• The Idea of a Material Value-Ethics
• The Phenomenology of Value
• The Orientation of Human Beings toward Value
• Values and Moral Values.- Action Theory and the Problem of Motivation
• Goodness and Moral Obligation
• The Concept of Virtue and Its Foundations
• Virtue Ethics
• The Phenomenology of the Person
• Ethical Personalism.