Living and Value: Toward a Constructive Postmodern Ethics

by Frederick Ferré

Frederick Ferré is Professor Emeritus at The University of Georgia. He is the author of many books, including Being and Value and Knowing and Value , both published by SUNY Press.

364 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Frederick Pond Ferré was Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at The University of Georgia. He was a past president of the Metaphysical Society of America. Much of his work concerned how metaphysics is entwined with practical questions about how we live our life, including the ethical dimensions of life.

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[Michael · Rating 5 out of 5]

Live well, live better. Make the effort to generate beauty when you interact with people and the world. Don't pass up the opportunity to make things better. Avoid, if you can, the destruction of beauty. Generating beauty in relationships translates to bringing light and love to the lives and experiences of others. Ugliness either passes on generating beauty or involves destroying beauty. Evil is a moral ugliness that manifests when one willfully acts to destroy beauty by visiting harm or suffering on human beings and indeed upon all entities we relate to.