"Human history makes no sense without prehistory, and prehistory makes no sense without biology," he said, echoing a line from the new book, which offers a sweeping account of the human rise to domination of the biosphere, rounded out with broad reflections on art, ethics, language and religion.
(male, 59, non-surgical specialty) Attitudes, values, ways of thinking, ethics, language, and symptom presentation were some of the behavioural fields that were repeatedly described as being different between women and men.
The trip was one of many making up Fieldston's City Semester, an experiential, project-based class that integrates history, English, ethics, languages and science.
Since the central purposes of ethics are to resolve or coordinate attitudes, an analysis of ethical language must reveal how ethical language serves these dynamic purposes.
For Stevenson, language is an instrument or tool for serving certain purposes; ethical language is thus suited especially for the central purposes of ethics.
Politics has its own ethic and language, and Mr. Clinton's leniency has given those of us on the outside a big fat glimpse of how things really work.
In his graduate seminars on ethical theory, Hook made use of Stevenson's Ethics in Language as the point of departure for his defense of pragmatic ethics against the criticisms that derived from the analysis of moral language.
The emotivist theory of ethics had its most articulate treatment in Ethics and Language by Charles Stevenson (1908 79).
In C.L. Stevenson's Ethics in Language, the analysis of the nature of ethical disagreement was considered as providing a method of mediation between pragmatist and logical positivist views in ethical theory.
This is the question around which Stevenson organizes all of his work in ethical theory and with which he begins both Ethics and Language (1944) and Facts and Values (1963a).
