Chapter VI. The Rise of Scientific Value Relativism

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface vii
3. Preface to the Fifth Printing xi
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Contents xvii
6. Introductory 1
7. Part One: Systematic
8. Chapter I. Theory of Scientific Method: Facts and Logic 27
9. Chapter II. Theory of Scientific Method (Continued): Causality, Tests, Prediction 73
10. Chapter III. Theory of Scientific Value Relativism (Value Alternativism) 117
11. Chapter IV. Theory of Justice and the Impact on it of Scientific Method and Value Relativism 136
12. Part Two: Genetic
13. Chapter V. Precursors and Cousins 165
14. Chapter VI. The Rise of Scientific Value Relativism 207
15. Part Three: Polemic
16. Chapter VII. The Revolt 261
17. Chapter VIII. Twentieth-Century Attempts to Identify Highest Values 302
18. Part Four: At the Borderline of Metaphysics
19. Chapter IX. Factual, Not Logical, Links between Is and Ought 367
20. Chapter X. Universal Postulates of Justice 387
21. Chapter XI. Truth and Justice 404
22. Chapter XII. Impossibility (Limited Possibility) 417
23. Chapter XIII. Twentieth-Century Political Science and the Belief in God 456
24. Results 480
25. Appendix A. Note Regarding a Planned Second Volume 495
26. Appendix B. Miscellaneous Notes on Special Questions and on Literature 499
27. Supplementary Notes on Literature 575
28. Index of Names 581
29. Subject Index 588