Ethics and Language is a 1944 book by C. L. Stevenson which was influential in furthering the metaethical view of emotivism first espoused by A. J. Ayer. Yale University, where Stevenson lectured, did not approve of the contents of the book, as a result his lecture position was not renewed.

Ethics and Language is a 1944 book by C. L. Stevenson which was influential in furthering the metaethical view of emotivism first espoused by A. J. Ayer. Yale University, where Stevenson lectured, did not approve of the contents of the book, as a result his lecture position was not renewed.

What is the place of the ethical in human life? How do we render it visible? How might sustained attention to the ethical transform anthropological theory and enrich our understanding of thought, speech, and social action? This volume offers a significant attempt to address these questions. It is a common experience of most ethnographers that the people we encounter are trying ...(展开全部)

What is the place of the ethical in human life? How do we render it visible? How might sustained attention to the ethical transform anthropological theory and enrich our understanding of thought, speech, and social action? This volume offers a significant attempt to address these questions. It is a common experience of most ethnographers that the people we encounter are trying ...(展开全部)

The question at the heart of the book is why we should accept a given conceptualization or definition—a question that has a rich history in philosophy, but that also arises in science and politics. To answer this question, the book develops a framework for concept appraisal. Its guiding idea is that to question the authority of concepts is to ask for reasons of a special kind: ...(展开全部)

Let us now imagine that some administrative authority, as far superior in power and intelligence to men, as men are to their cattle, is set over the colony, charged to deal with its human elements in such a manner as to assure the victory of the settlement over the antagonistic influences of the state of nature in which it is set down. He would proceed in the same fashion as th...(展开全部)

理查德•斯坦利•彼得斯(Richard Stanley Peters,1919-2011)，英国伦敦大学教育学院教育哲学教授，曾任伦敦大学教育学院院长和不列颠教育哲学学会主席，是英国分析教育哲学代表人物和“伦敦学派”领军人物。著述颇丰，《伦理学与教育》是他的分析教育哲学代表作。 朱镜人(1949- )，合肥师范学院教授，安徽大学、安徽新华学院兼职教授。英国伦敦大学访问学者和布利斯托尔大学高级访问学者。主要从事外国教育史和比较教育学教学和研究。已出版《英国教育思想之演进》等专著、译著，发表论文90余篇。

Let us now imagine that some administrative authority, as far superior in power and intelligence to men, as men are to their cattle, is set over the colony, charged to deal with its human elements in such a manner as to assure the victory of the settlement over the antagonistic influences of the state of nature in which it is set down. He would proceed in the same fashion as th...(展开全部)