Profundity - Jean G. Harrell

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Biographie:
Jean Gabbert Harrell is Professor Emerita of Philosophy at California State University, Hayward. She is the author of Soundtracks: A Study of Auditory Perception, Memory, and Valuation (1986) and editor of the English translation of The Work of Music and the Problem of Its Identity by Roman Ingarden (1986)....

Sommaire:
The crisis or death of philosophy currently identified both within and outside professional circles is commonly attributed to the failure to find universals in metaphysics, epistemology, and, most obviously, in valuational judgment. Profundity concentrates on an assumption uniformly upheld in the theory of value, that all human values are contextually dependent. Harrell contends, to the contrary, that there exists one major value that is universal to humans, regardless of context. That value is profundity, or depth. Considering how profundity is used in our language leads Harrell to identify two fundamental sensory patterns that are common to all human life at its origin—...