Humanistic philosophizing : sensibility and speculation in philosophical inquiry /: sensibility and speculation in philosophical inquiry. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: By Nicholas Rescher.
• Authors: Rescher, Nicholas
• Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- I. Assessing Man. Moral approbation -- Respect -- Obligation -- Fortune, fate, and luck -- Wishing -- II. Viewing Human Relations. Consolation -- Distant posterity -- Retroactive indebtedness -- Collective sagacity -- III. Considering Value. Value practicalities -- Compound evaluation in pragmatic perspective -- Cost-benefit ethics -- Fairness and distributive justice -- IV. Contemplating Philosophy. Common sense methodology in philosophy -- Compromise in thought and action -- Prediction, fashion, and futurity in the philosophy of science -- Philosophical anthropology in processional perspective -- V. Envisioning Theology. Theistic complications.
• Publisher Details: Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (225 pages)
• Subjects: 100; Philosophy; Philosophy; Philosophy
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781527520295
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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