Which values for our time? / edited by Daniel S. Hamilton.

Acknowledgements / Daniel S. Hamilton -- Foreword: Which Values for Our Time? / Emilio Rui Vilar -- Introduction / Anibal Cavaco Silva -- In the Shadow of Nietzsche / Eduardo Lourenco -- Pt. I. A World in Crisis -- The Beautiful, the Good and the True / Paulo Tunhas -- End of Subject? / Patrick Nerhot -- End of Rationality? / Jean Petitot -- Do We Need Truth? / Jacques Bouveresse -- A Crisis of Values, or Crisis Value? / Hubert Damisch -- End of History? / Robert Kagan -- Pt. II. Cognitive Values: Scientific and Philosophical Knowledge -- Introduction / Antonio Coutinho -- Reconstruction of Objectivity: "On What There Is" from the Quantum-Logical Point of View / Maria Luisa Dalla Chiara, Roberto Giuntini and Giuliano Toraldo di Francia -- The Philosophical Rediscovery of the Natural / Zenon Pylyshyn -- Representations of the Living in a World of Biological Artifacts / Henri Atlan -- Pt. III. Aesthetic Values: Art and its Audience -- Artistic Worth and Personal Taste / Jerrold Levinson -- Beauty, Truth, and the Passing of Transcendental Philosophy / Joseph Margolis -- The Phylogenesis of Art / Francois-Bernard Mache -- Primitivism: The Counterweight to Modernity / Philippe Dagen -- Pt. IV. Ethical and Political Values: Responsibility -- Is Democracy a Universal Deal? On the Need for New Thinking about an Aging Ideal / John Keane -- Life, Death, Technology / Joao Lobo Antunes -- The Morality of Globalization: Is There A Duty to Transfer Wealth? / David Gordon -- The Temptation of Pride / Jean-Pierre Dupuy -- Conclusion -- Which Values for Our Time? / Daniele Cohn.

Papers from a conference sponsored by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation on the occasion of its 50th anniversary, Oct. 25-27, 2006 in Lisbon Portugal.

Includes bibliographical references.

"Are we facing a crisis of values? In recent years various thinkers have argued that we face the end of truth (both metaphysical and scientific), the end of beauty, the end of history - even the end of man. Societai and historicai ruptures, discontinuities and radical innovations can be both cause and consequence of such thinking. Do we truly face a general crisis of meaning? Do we have the means, the tools to overcome it? Can we fathom other values able to bridge the seemingly disconnected cognitive, ethicai-political, and aesthetic domains, and possibly reveal affinities between what Plato once termed the True, the Good and the Beautiful? On the occasion of its 50th Anniversary, the Calouste Gulbenklan Foundation asked leading thinkers to address these questions."--BOOK JACKET.