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Professor Findlay in this book, originally published in 1961, set out to justify, and to some extent carry out, a 'material value-ethic', ie. A systematic setting forth of the ends of rational action.
The book is in the tradition of Moore, Rashfall, Ross, Scheler and Hartmann though it avoids altogether dogmatic intuitive methods. It argues that an organised framework of ends of action follows from the attitude underlying our moral pronouncements, and that this framework, while allowing personal elaboration, is not a matter for individual decision. The relations connecting our fundamental value-judgements with one another, and the frames of mind behind them, are not rigorously deductive but are sufficiently compelling to be called logical. Something of a 'transcendental deduction' of a well-ordered family for our basic heads of valuation is both possible and necessary. The work is further critical of the notion of obligation which has been extended far beyond legal contracts and understandings. The book also contains a chapter on religion.
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Index
- Abnormality (sexual) 278
- Absolute values 250, 372
- Abstract beauty 247
- Abstraction 63, 78
- Achievement preferences 163
- Achtung 216
- Acte gratuity 218
- Action 189
- Activity 50, 136
- —, mental 137–45
- Activity-wants 158
- Aesthetic debasement 253–4
- — feebleness 252
- — individuality 347
- — reality 252
- — value 228, 249–50
- — wants 157
- Affinity 32, 50, 422
- Agitators 362
- Agreement 230, 272
- Albigenses 410
- Amphibiousness 32
- Ampliative inference 106–7
- Analogy 79
- — of inner experience 27, 51, 73, 220, 260
- Angelico, Fraf 253
- Angels 234
- Anglo-Hegelians 43, 106
- Animal consciousness 62, 68, 102, 111, 147, 150, 297, 310, 322, 348
- Anscombe, E. 142 n.
- Antinomy 134
- —, in religion 400
- Apartheid 362
- Appropriation (of punishment) 314
- Approvability of belief 113–34
- — of valuation 211–12, 225
- Approval 189
- Aquinas, T. 403
- Arbitrariness 204, 232, 259, 263, 285
- Arguments in punishment 321
- Aristotle 36, 54, 82, 142, 151, 172, 179, 201, 270, 346, 350, 370, 387, 391, 409–10, 419–20, 427, 431
- Asceticism 266, 280
- As-if explanation 150–1
- Aspects 77–8
- Assent (in belief) 100, 186, 225
- ‘Atmosphere’ 30
- Augustine, St 376
- Ausser einander 31
- Austin, J. 17, 192, 194, 420
- Authenticity 256
- Aversion see Not-wanting
- Bad 222
- Badness, aesthetic 252–3
- —, of injustice 289
- — and obligation 426
- Baseness 333–4
- Beauty 244, 256
- —, abstract 247
- Behaviour 32, 34, 50–1, 60, 69–70, 270
- Behaviourism 273
- Belief 93–134, 181, 184–5, 264
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- I Introductory and Programmatic
- II The Basic Modes of Consciousness
- III The Modes of Belief
- IV The Modes of Action and Endeavour
- V The Modes of wish and Will
- VI The Values of Welfare
- VII Injustice and Its Disvalues
- VIII Duty and Moral Value
- IX Epilogue on Religion
- Henrietta Hertz Lecture The Structure of the Kingdom of Ends
- Index