Rolston, Lonergan, and the Intrinsic Value of Nature

Autor:	Theodore W. Nunez
Rok vydání:	1999
Předmět:	Value theory Instrumental and intrinsic value Critical realism (philosophy of perception) Philosophy Religious studies Metaphysics Narrative Transcendental number Virtue epistemology Naturalism Epistemology
Zdroj:	Journal of Religious Ethics. 27:105-128
ISSN:	1467-9795 0384-9694
DOI:	10.1111/0384-9694.00007
Popis:	In recent metaethical debate over ways to justify the notion of intrinsic natural value, some neopragmatists have challenged realist conceptions of scientific and moral truth. Holmes Rolston defends a critical-realist epistemology as the basis for a metaphysics of "projective nature" and a cosmological narrative - both of which set up a historical ontology of objective natural value. Pure ecological science informs the wilderness experience of Rolston's ideal epistemic subject, the "sensitive naturalist." The author argues that Rolston's account of the relation between knowing and valuing can be clarified and strengthened by appropriating Bernard Lonergan's transcendental method. Conversely, Lonergan's view of moral selftranscendence can be developed further in light of Rolston's virtue epistemology, which is embodied in the figure of the sensitive naturalist.
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