Realms of Value; a Critique of Human Civilization

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1954. First Edition. Quarto in blue cloth; xii, 497 pages 25 cm; bibliographical references. Fine, lacking jacket. Single page, folded, of types mimeographed commentary on the book laid in. Ownership signature of one James F Zarnham to front free endpaper. A very tight clean copy. Hardcover.

Contents: ch. 1. The definition of value in terms of interest -- ch. 2. Motor-affective psychology -- ch. 3. The object of interest -- ch. 4. Gradation, integration, and mutation -- ch. 5. Modes of interest -- ch. 6. The meaning of morality -- ch. 7. The interpretation of moral concepts -- ch. 8. The proof of moral knowledge -- ch. 9. Social organization -- ch. 10. Social institutions -- ch. 11. The cultural science and their methods -- ch. 12. Conscience and ethics -- ch. 13. Polity and political science -- ch. 14. Law and jurisprudence -- ch. 15. Economy and economics -- ch. 16. The claims of democracy -- ch. 17. Science and the science of science -- ch. 18. Art and aesthetics -- ch. 19. Culture, civilization, and sociology -- ch. 20. The history of history -- ch. 21. Education and the science of education -- ch. 22. Value and metaphysics -- ch. 23. Religion and philosophy of religion.

"Ralph Barton Perry (1876-1957) was an American philosopher. He was a strident moral idealist who stated in 1909 that, to him, idealism meant "to interpret life consistently with ethical, scientific, and metaphysical truth." Perry's viewpoints on religion stressed the notion that religious thinking possessed legitimacy should it exist within a framework accepting of human reason and social progress."—Wikipedia

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