The importance of subjectivity: selected essays in metaphysics and ethics

Timothy Sprigge was one of the leading exponents of philosophical idealism inthe last fifty years. The idealist worldview, long unfashionable, has been coming back into favour, and Sprigge's work has found a new readership. These selected essays focus on the view of consciousness on which his unique system ofmetaphysics and ethics is based. INDICE: Introduction; Part I: Consciousness and the Metaphysics of Experience; 1: Orientations; 2: What I Believe; 3: The Privacy of Experience; 4: Final Causes; 5: The Importance of Subjectivity: An Inaugural Lecture; 6: Is Consciousness Mysterious?; 7: Consciousness; 8: The Distinctiveness of American Philosophy; 9: The World of Description and the World of Acquaintance; Part II: The Metaphysics of Time and the Absolute; 10: The Unreality of Time; 11: Ideal Immortality; 12: Bradley and Russell on Relations; 13: The Self and Its World in Bradley and Husserl; 14: Absolute Idealism; 15: Pantheism; Part III: Ethics, Animal RIghts, and the Environment; 16: The Greatest Happiness Principle;17: Is the Esse of Intrinsic Value Percipi? Pleasure, Pain and Value; 18: Metaphysics, Physicalism and Animal Rights; 19: Vivisection, Morals and Medicine:Commentary From an Anti-Vivisectionist Philosopher; 20: Non-Human Rights: An Idealist Perspective; 21: Are There Intrinsic Values in Nature; 22: An Idealist's Prayer for the World; Acknowledgements; Selected Bibliography of T. L. S. Sprigge; Index

• ISBN: 978-0-19-959154-1
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 368
• Fecha Publicación: 13/01/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés