Values and Evaluations

In the diverse but related essays collected in "Values and Evaluations, " Julius Kovesi's central concerns are the nature of ideological thinking and the rational core of morality. -It is characteristic of ideological beliefs that their truth is upheld independent of the arguments for them-, he contends. He examines ideological tendencies in the Marxist tradition, in attempts to demythologize Christianity, and in modern British ethical theory. In ethics, he continues the attack on the fact/value dichotomy he began in "Moral Notions," a dichotomy he thinks has ideological sources. In theology, he argues that demythologizing is really a form of -remythologizing-. A long study of Moses Hess's essay "On the Essence of Money" is used to illuminate the early thought of Marx."