The Variety Of Values: Essays On Morality, Meaning, And Love
by Susan Wolf /
2014 / English / PDF
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For over thirty years Susan Wolf has been writing about moral and
nonmoral values and the relation between them. This volume collects
Wolf's most important essays on the topics of morality, love, and
meaning, ranging from her classic essay "Moral Saints" to her most
recent "The Importance of Love."
For over thirty years Susan Wolf has been writing about moral and
nonmoral values and the relation between them. This volume collects
Wolf's most important essays on the topics of morality, love, and
meaning, ranging from her classic essay "Moral Saints" to her most
recent "The Importance of Love."
Wolf's essays warn us against the common tendency to classify
values in terms of a dichotomy that contrasts the personal,
self-interested, or egoistic with the impersonal, altruistic or
moral. On Wolf's view, this tendency ignores or distorts the
significance of such values as love, beauty, and truth, and
neglects the importance of meaningfulness as a dimension of the
good life.
Wolf's essays warn us against the common tendency to classify
values in terms of a dichotomy that contrasts the personal,
self-interested, or egoistic with the impersonal, altruistic or
moral. On Wolf's view, this tendency ignores or distorts the
significance of such values as love, beauty, and truth, and
neglects the importance of meaningfulness as a dimension of the
good life.
These essays show us how a self-conscious recognition of the
variety of values leads to new understandings of the point, the
content, and the limits of morality and to new ways of thinking
about happiness and well-being.
These essays show us how a self-conscious recognition of the
variety of values leads to new understandings of the point, the
content, and the limits of morality and to new ways of thinking
about happiness and well-being.
