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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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To what extent has the concept of value been neglected and misunderstood?
·OnlineOnlineWorkshop # 5, Neglect of Value, Series 12,
This event begins 7.30 pm S'pore & WA time, 12.30 pm UK, 7.30 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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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: Widespread recognition that the idea of consciousness has been overlooked and neglected isn’t found in a similar neglect of the concept of value (as a constituent of consciousness) despite John Mackie’s ‘error theory’ of value. Yet such neglect can be observed in Aristotle, and in the discoveries of Hume and Moore, voiced in the words of Charles Gray Shaw that “Value as a principle of ethics has been overlooked by both ancient and modern philosophy”. Does this neglect indicate that something very significant has been overlooked that is likely to have considerable impact on our understanding of human life? Reading: The Pursuit of Value, Ch. 2, Scn. ii.
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