Being and Value: Toward a Constructive Postmodern Metaphysics

by Frederick Ferré

Book Overview

Being and Value begins with a discussion on metaphysics, showing the vital relationship between human life and the philosophical placement of value, and emphasizing the current transition from the old mechanical worldview to the postmodern alternative inspired by ecology.

Being and Value shows how intimately premodern philosophy bound value into the fabric of things, and analyzes the expulsion of value from factual being during the modern period...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791427552
• ISBN13: 9780791427552
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 406 Pages