A question of values
Subtitle: six ways we make the personal choices that shape our lives
By: Hunter Lewis.
Edition: 1st HarperCollins pbk. ed.
Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco
Published: 1991
Place of publication: [San Francisco]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
Subjects: Values.; Decision making.
Description: A century ago, the greatest dangers we faced arose from agents outside ourselves: microbes, flood and famine, wolves in the forest at night. Today the greatest dangers-war, pollution, starvation- have their source in our own motives and sentiments: greed and hostility, carelessness and arrogance, narcissism and nationalism. The study of values might once have been a matter of primarily individual concern and deliberation as to how best to lead the "good life." Today it is a matter of collective human survival. Is we identify the study of values as a branch of philosophy, then the times has arrived for all women and men to become philosophers-or else.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-268) and index.
Originally published: San Francisco : Harper & Row, c1990.