How Long to Read Ethics as Scales of Forms

How Long Does it Take to Read Ethics as Scales of Forms?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 30 minutes to read Ethics as Scales of Forms by Richard Allen

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This book is an important contribution to moral philosophy, and also to moral theology. It overcomes the dichotomising fragmentation of much contemporary moral philosophy which tends to take one aspect or component of moral activity, such as the consequences of actions, rules or intentions, and to make it the only one. The book employs an adaptation of Collingwood’s scheme of ‘scales of forms’ to provide a synthesis which does justice to all aspects and components by placing each aspect, or component, on a scale in which each lower one presupposes the next higher and each higher one needs to be appropriately enacted and expressed in the next lower one. The lowest of all is that of the consequences of single actions and the highest, in which all the others are fulfilled, is that of the unique person as essentially an ens amans, a loving being. That scale is itself insufficient, for it in turn presupposes a scale of values and ends to be realised and pursued, and thus overcomes another false dichotomy, that of deontological (duty) versus axiological (value) ethics, for duties without values and ends are pointless and arbitrary, and values and ends without duties are of no moral significance. The order of types of love, from mere liking and enjoyment to love of the unique person, provides an appropriate scale, integrated with one of various types of fulfilment, pleasure-happiness-virtue, whose summit, love itself, is also that of the previous scale. Thus insofar as we become what we ought to be, then, ceteris paribus, we shall also find our true fulfilment. At each point, relevant texts from Greek to contemporary European philosophy, along with mentions of some other world- and life-views, are cited to illustrate and give substance to the argument.

How long is Ethics as Scales of Forms?

Ethics as Scales of Forms by Richard Allen is 210 pages long, and a total of 52,500 words.

This makes it 71% the length of the average book. It also has 64% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Ethics as Scales of Forms Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 46 minutes to read Ethics as Scales of Forms aloud.

What Reading Level is Ethics as Scales of Forms?

Ethics as Scales of Forms is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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