The Normativity of the Natural: Human Goods, Human Virtues, and Human Flourishing

by Mark J. Cherry

Book Overview

Western philosophy has long nurtured the hope to resolve moral controversies through reason; thereby to secure moral direction and human meaning without the need for a defining encounter with God or the transcendent. The expectation is for a moral rationality that is universal and able adequately to frame and guide the moral life. Moral and cultural unity was sought though philosophical reflection on human nature and the basic goods of a properly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9048123003
• ISBN13: 9789048123001
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"