Viable Values: A Study of Life as the Root and Reward of Morality

by Tara Smith

Book Overview

Viable Values examines the most basic foundations of value and morality, demonstrating the shortcomings of major traditional views and proposing that morality is grounded in the objective requirements of human life. Smith argues that morality depends on a proper understanding of the concept of values, and that values depend on the alternative of life or death. She proposes that human beings need to be moral in order to live, explaining how...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0847697614
• ISBN13: 9780847697618
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.0"