Values and Valuing (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780198248477)

This provocative book argues that people are naturally endowed with the ability to speak an articulate language and to form a culture. Language and cultural life require self-appraisal, and hence an evolution--through self-conflict--of desires into values. Nerlich demonstrates that this valuing is a natural process, one that underlies the morals of duty and obligation. He concludes that such valuing will be good only if it results in objective values that are authentic to the individual's nature and surrounding culture.

Author: Graham Nerlich
ISBN-10: 0198248474
ISBN-13: 9780198248477
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Language: English
Published: 01/04/1990
Pages: 226
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 8.83h x 5.68w x 0.86d