Sprigge, Timothy Lauro Squire (1932-2007)

The importance of subjectivity selected essays in metaphysics and ethics / [Texte imprimé] : T. L. S. Sprigge ; edited by Leemon B. McHenry - Oxford : Clarendon Press, 2010 - 1 vol. (XI-355 p.) ; 24 cm

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Part I: Consciousness and the metaphysics of experience. Orientations. What I believe. The privacy of experience. Final causes. The importance of subjectivity : an inaugural lecture. Is consciousness mysterious? Consciousness. The distinctiveness of American philosophy. The world of description and the world of acquaintance -- Part II: The metaphysics of time and the absolute. The unreality of time. Ideal immortality. Russell and Bradley on relations. The self and its world in Bradley and Husserl. Absolute idealism. Pantheism -- Part III: Ethics, animal rights, and the environment. The greatest happiness principle. Is the esse of intrinsic value percipi? Pleasure, pain and value. Metaphysics, physicalism, and animal rights. Vivisection, morals, medicine : commentary from an antivivisectionist philosopher. Non-human rights : an idealist perspective. Are there intrinsic values in nature? An idealist's prayer for the world

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Metaphysics Ethics Consciousness Subjectivity Idealism Animal rights

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