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Sacrifice and Value: A Kantian Interpretation

Sacrifice and Value: A Kantian Interpretation

Axinn, Sidney

Hardcover

Philosophy

ISBN10: 0739140531
ISBN13: 9780739140536
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Oct 14 2010
Pages: 154
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Sacrifice and Value: A Kantian Interpretation argues that we create values by making sacrifices. Values don't exist outside of us; they exist only when we give a gift without expecting a return. As Sidney Axinn demonstrates, we must have values in order to make decisions, to have friends or lovers, and to choose goals of any sort. Sacrifice is basic to almost everything of importance: care, love, religion, patriotism, loyalties, warfare, friendship, gift giving, morality. Axin uses Aristotle, Cicero, and Kant, and contemporary philosophers Oldenquest, Frankfurt, Friedman, Starobinski and others to analyze the role of sacrifice. A novel feature is the attention given to Kant's use of sacrifice. Sacrifice and Value will interest advanced students and scholars of philosophy-particularly value theory and moral theory-as well as women's studies, religion, political theory, and psychology.

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