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This group is for people with some background in philosophy who want to explore new ideas about human existence that focus on the concepts of consciousness and value as key to resolving the enigma of life. Yet everyone is welcome, interested inquirers, avid readers, outliers, undergraduates and professors of philosophy alike.
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Can Value Theory Ethics supersede all others, as well as express human values?
·OnlineOnlineWorkshop # 11, Value Theory Ethics, Series 11,
This event begins 7.30 pm S'pore & WA time, 11.30 am UK, 6.30 am NY.You will need to view the relevant podcast below on YouTube before joining the meeting in order to participate in the discussion.
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Join this group at meetup.com/philosophy-of-value-workshops
And buy my book The Pursuit of Value from Amazon BooksThe workshops include of a prior presentation of the topic by myself on YouTube that you need to watch. The meeting itself consists of a brief review of the topic followed by questions and discussion. The weekly topic is posted a week before the event, together with a suggested reading from my work The Pursuit of Value, available through Amazon Books or myself. Transcripts of the Youtube presentation are available by email.
THIS WEEK: It is surprising to discover that the major theories of Kantian, utilitarian and virtue theory ethics, have deep flaws which undermine them as acceptable ethical systems. It might then be either, expected or surprising, to also discover that value itself is absent from the lexicon of moral philosophy, not as a concept, but as a leading principle of ethical theory. We aren’t just talking about the concept of value common to all theories of ethics, but value as the guiding principle of a theory of ethics. Can such a ‘value theory ethics’ resolve problems that other theories cannot? Reading: The Pursuit of Value, Ch. 2, Scn. viii.
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