TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

PART I. HERMENEUTICS AND THE SOCIO-HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF VALUES

1. Ethics and Historicity 

by Olinto Pegoraro, Univ. Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2. Hermeneutics, Historicity and Values 

by George F. McLean, CUA, Washington, USA

3. Values in an Historical, Socio-Cultural Context 

by Hortensia Ferrand de Piazza, Univ. Nacional, Lima, Peru

4. Liberation as Autonomy and Responsibility: Habermas and Psychoanalytic Method in the Analysis and Critique of Values

by James Loiacono, Oblate College, Washington, USA

PART II. VALUE HORIZONS AND LIBERATION IN SOCIETY

5. On Technology and Values 

by Luis Camacho, Univ. de Costa Rica

6. Aesthetics in the Context of Historicity, Moral Education and Character Development

by Raul Lopez, Pont. Univ. Bolivariana, Medellin, Colombia

7. The Person: Experience of Transcendence Through Immanence

by Ruben Diaz, Pont. Univ. Catolica de Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

8. Liberation and Values 

by Manuel B. Dy, Jr., Ateneo de Manila Univ., Philippines

Acknowledgements