The Variety of Values: Essays on Morality, Meaning, and Love

For over thirty years Susan Wolf has been writing about moral and nonmoral values and the relation between them. This volume collects Wolf's most important essays on the topics of morality, love, and meaning, ranging from her classic essay Moral Saints to her most recent The Importance of
Love.

Wolf's essays warn us against the common tendency to classify values in terms of a dichotomy that contrasts the personal, self-interested, or egoistic with the impersonal, altruistic or moral. On Wolf's view, this tendency ignores or distorts the significance of such values as love, beauty, and
truth, and neglects the importance of meaningfulness as a dimension of the good life.

These essays show us how a self-conscious recognition of the variety of values leads to new understandings of the point, the content, and the limits of morality and to new ways of thinking about happiness and well-being.


Author: Susan Wolf
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 01/01/2015
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780195332810

About the Author

Susan Wolf is the Edna J. Koury Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her work focuses chiefly on ethics and its close relations in philosophy of mind, philosophy of action, political philosophy, and aesthetics. She is author of Freedom Within Reason (OUP, 1990) and Meaning in Life and Why It Matters (Princeton, 2010), and co-editor, with Christopher Grau of Understanding Love: Philosophy, Film, and Fiction (OUP, 2014).

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