The individual and the value of human life

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The individual and the value of human life

Joseph Popper-Lynkeus ; translated by Andrew Kirk Kelley with Joram Graf Haber ; introduction by Joram Graf Haber

(Studies in social, political, and legal philosophy / general editor, James P. Sterba)

Rowman & Littlefield, c1995

  • : pbk

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Individuum und die Bewertung menschlicher Existenzen

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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The Individual and the Value of Human Life brings to the English-speaking world the ideas of Joseph Popper-Lynkeus, an Austrian philosopher, scientist, and social reformer who enjoyed great fame at the beginning of the 20th century and whose admirers included Einstein, Freud, Ernest Mach, and Karl Raymond Popper. Originally published in Germany in 1910, the book contains the ethical underpinnings of a social philosophy in which the individual is put forward as having inestimable value. Against theorists such as Hegel and Spencer whose writings bristle with contempt for the common man, Popper-Lynkeus puts forward an individualistic ethic that is at once a proposal for a welfare state, a critique of involuntary conscription, a recommendation for penal reform, and a criticism of metaphysics and religion. Haber's introduction includes a biographical essay and discussion and analysis of the book's central ideas.

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  • NCID
    BA28819821
  • ISBN
    • 0847680363
  • LCCN
    95013950
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Original Language Code
    ger
  • Place of Publication
    Lanham, Md.
  • Pages/Volumes
    xx, 115 p.
  • Size
    23 cm
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