| Phys Descr |
ix, 301 pages ; 21 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references |
| Summary |
Contains essays describing how man struggles to achieve human happiness as the highest human good. The collection shows how humanism presents a vision of a society in which the fruits of modern technology and automation can be enjoyed and leisure life enriched, as man achieves the jhust and equitable society his faith in freedom, reason, and dignity makes him desire |
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I. Ethics, Religion, and the Meaning of Life. Ethics Without Religion / Kai Nielsen -- Meaning and Morals / Kurt Baier -- Ethics, Religion, and Scientific Humanism / Herbert Feigl |
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II. Good Life. Good Life of the Self-Actualizing Person / A.H. Maslo -- Toward a Modern Approach to Values: the Valuing Process in the Mature Person / Carl R. Rogers -- Utopia and Human Behavior / B.F. Skinner -- Human Excellence / John P. Anton |
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III. Individual: Law, Morality, and Social Organization. Enforcement of Morals / Ernest Nagel -- Social Protest and Civil Disobedience / Sidney Hook -- Political Responsibility of the Intellectual / Charles Frankel -- Individual, the Organization, and Participatory Democracy / Paul Kurtz -- Ethical Theory, Human Needs, and Individual Responsibility / Rollo Handy |
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IV. Justice and Society. Humanist Ethics and the Meaning of Human Dignity / Abraham Edel -- Moral Theory and Moral Education / H.J. Blackham -- Humanistic Ethics and the Conflict of Interests / Marvin Farber |
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V. Death. Crisis Called Death / Corliss Lamont -- Humanism and Death / Maurice Natanson |
| Note |
Pbk. 23/-. sbn 13 600833 x |
| Subject |
Humanistic ethics
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| Alt Author |
Nielsen, Kai, 1926- contributor
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Baier, Kurt, contributor
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Feigl, Herbert, contributor
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Rogers, Carl R. (Carl Ransom), 1902-1987, contributor
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Skinner, B. F. (Burrhus Frederic), 1904-1990, contributor
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Anton, John P. (John Peter), 1920- contributor
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Nagel, Ernest, 1901-1985, contributor
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Hook, Sidney, 1902-1989, contributor
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Frankel, Charles, 1917-1979, contributor
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Kurtz, Paul, 1925-2012, contributor
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Handy, Rollo, contributor
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Edel, Abraham, 1908-2007, contributor
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Blackham, H. J. (Harold John), 1903-2009, contributor
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Farber, Marvin, 1901-1980, contributor
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Lamont, Corliss, 1902-1995, contributor
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Natanson, Maurice, 1924-1996, contributor
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| Other Form |
Online version: Kurtz, Paul, 1925- Moral problems in contemporary society. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall [1969] (OCoLC)644455091 |
| OCLC # |
19349 |
| ISBN # |
9780136008330 |
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013600833X |
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