Autonomy and Normativity: Investigations of Truth, Right, and Beauty

by Richard Dien Winfield

From the beginning philosophy has understood its pursuit of truth to depend upon the autonomy of reason. For beauty to be evaluated in its own right, autonomy has to be allowed. The author expands upon these considerations in these investigations of truth, right and beauty which offer a post-Enlightenment solution to the reigning incomprehension of the unity of autonomy and normativity and of the foundation-free legitimacy of modernity.

Hardcover

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Richard Dien Winfield (PhD Yale) is Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Georgia, where he has taught since 1982. Winfield has served as president of the Society for Systematic Philosophy, the Hegel Society of America, and the Metaphysical Society of America.