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Sacrifice and Value: A Kantian Interpretation argues that we create values by making sacrifices. Values don't exist outside of us; they exist only when we give a gift without expecting a return. As Sidney Axinn demonstrates, we must have values in order to make decisions, to have friends or lovers, and to choose goals of any sort. Sacrifice is basic to almost everything of importance: care, love, religion, patriotism, loyalties, warfare, friendship, gift giving, morality. Axin uses Aristotle, Cicero, and Kant, and contemporary philosophers Oldenquest, Frankfurt, Friedman, Starobinski and others to analyze the role of sacrifice. A novel feature is the attention given to Kant's use of sacrifice. Sacrifice and Value will interest advanced students and scholars of philosophy-particularly value theory and moral theory-as well as women's studies, religion, political theory, and psychology.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy Ethics & moral philosophy

• Full title: Sacrifice and Value
• Subtitle: A Kantian Interpretation
• Author: Sidney Axinn
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 154
• EAN: 9780739140536
• ISBN: 0739140531
• ID: 04903475
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Weight: 404 g
• Dimensions: 241 × 163 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 14. October 2010

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