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Space, Time and the Ethical Foundations

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Space, Time and the Ethical Foundations book

Space, Time and the Ethical Foundations

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Space, Time and the Ethical Foundations book

ByRobert Elliott Allinson
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2002
eBook Published 4 September 2019
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315183305
Pages 648
eBook ISBN 9781315183305
Subjects Humanities
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Allinson, R.E. (2002). Space, Time and the Ethical Foundations (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315183305

ABSTRACT

This title was first published in 2002: In Space, Time and the Ethical Foundations ideas about space and time are developed, unique to the history of philosophy, that match the new physics. A well grounded metaphysics is presented which offers a safe haven between stifling scepticism and wild imagination, and an original philosophical method is demonstrated which sharply demarcates philosophy from the empirical sciences. A new foundation is laid for ethics by grounding ethics on the author's psycho-biological deduction of the emotions that offers a progressive model to replace the Freudian paradigm. An originally designed trans-cultural ethics, doubly grounded on both Eastern and Western thought, presents an antidote to the contemporary retreat into relativism. Insights from biology, psychology, evolutionary theory and ethics are brought together in a unique and fruitful synthesis. At the same time, human barbarisms such as the Holocaust are pointed to as reminders that there are just limits to compassion. This book presents a sophisticated text for metaphysics, epistemology and systematic ethics.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

part Part I|140 pages

In Between Metaphysics and Epistemology

chapter 1|18 pages

On Certifying What is True in Philosophical Discourse

chapter 2|7 pages

On the Synthetic A Priori: Everything about the Synthetic A Priori Has Not Been Said

chapter 3|11 pages

Kant’s Four Missing Arguments: A Phenomenological Treatment of the Kantian Idea of Space

chapter 4|27 pages

Space, Time and Metaphysics

chapter 5|13 pages

The Thalian Fallacy: The Problem of Physics and Philosophy

chapter 6|10 pages

The Complementarity Principle, The Sixth

chapter 7|20 pages

The Analogies of Experience

chapter 8|11 pages

A Metaphysics of Virtual Reality

chapter 9|11 pages

On Fact and Essence, the Philosopher and the World

chapter 10|4 pages

The Intuition Taboo

part Part II|49 pages

The Nature of Ethics and the Bio-psychological Deduction of the Emotions

chapter 1|20 pages

Toward a New Ethical Foundation: Bio-evolutionary Social Theory

chapter 2|19 pages

The Moral Realm of Truth and Mencius’ Phenomenology of Compassion

chapter 3|7 pages

The Metaphysical Foundation of the Phenomenological Structure of Ethics: Ethics as Regional Metaphysics

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