书目名称 | Values and Morals | 副标题 | Essays in Honor of W | 编辑 | Alvin I. Goldman,Jaegwon Kim | 视频video | | 丛书名称 | Philosophical Studies Series | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | This Festschrift seeks to honor three highly distinguished scholars in the Department of Philosophy, University of Michigan: William K. Frankena, Charles L. Stevenson, and Richard B. Brandt. Each has made significant con tributions to the philosophic literature, particularly in the field of ethics. Michigan has been fortunate in having three such original and productive moral philosophers serving ob its faculty simultaneously. Yet they stand in a long tradition of excellence, both within the Department and in the University. Let us trace that tradition briefly. The University of Michigan opened in 184l.lts Department of Literature, Science, and the Arts at first resembled a typical American college ofthat period, with religious and ethical indoctrination playing a central role in course offerings. But when Henry Tappan, a Presbyterian clergyman and Professor of philosophy, became President in 1852, he succeeded in shifting the emphasis from indoctrination to inquiry and scholarship. Though he was dismissed for his policies in 1863, Tappan‘s efforts to establish a broad and liberal curriculum prevailed. Michigan was to take its place among the leading educational institutions in th | 出版日期 | Book 1978 | 关键词 | 1870; English literature; concept; ethics; freedom; literature; meta-ethics; morality; nature; philosophy; rea | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7634-5 | isbn_softcover | 978-90-481-8352-4 | isbn_ebook | 978-94-015-7634-5Series ISSN 0921-8599 Series E-ISSN 2542-8349 | issn_series | 0921-8599 | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1978 |
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