Publication details
Verlag: Springer
Ort: Berlin
Jahr: 2017
Pages: 215-225
Reihe: Studies in East European Thought
Volle Referenz:
, "Philipp Frank on relativity in science and morality", Studies in East European Thought 69 (3), 2017, pp. 215-225.
Philipp Frank on relativity in science and morality
pp. 215-225
in: The Life and Work of Philipp Frank, Studies in East European Thought 69 (3), 2017.Abstrakt
As Einstein's successor in Prague and the author of a biography on Einstein, the physicist and philosopher Philipp Frank made relativity a central aspect of his thoughts on morality. He published his views on this topic mainly in the year 1950 in a small book entitled Relativity—A Richer Truth. As far as morality as a part of social and political life is concerned, Frank's primary interest is to show that as in science, relativity in morality does not preclude objectivity. The paper deals with the question of which conceptions of relativity and relativism Frank refers to in the context of modern science and examines the implications for objectivity and absolute values in morality.
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Publication details
Verlag: Springer
Ort: Berlin
Jahr: 2017
Pages: 215-225
Reihe: Studies in East European Thought
Volle Referenz:
, "Philipp Frank on relativity in science and morality", Studies in East European Thought 69 (3), 2017, pp. 215-225.