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Author | : Richard Joyce |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2009-12-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9048133394 |
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What kind of properties are moral qualities, such as rightness, badness, etc? Some ethicists doubt that there are any such properties; they maintain that thinking that something is morally wrong (for example) is comparable to thinking that something is a unicorn or a ghost. These "moral error theorists" argue that the world simply does not contain the kind of properties or objects necessary to render our moral judgments true. This radical form of moral skepticism was championed by the philosopher John Mackie (1917-1981). This anthology is a collection of philosophical essays critically examining Mackie’s view.
Author | : Albert W. Alschuler |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780226015217 |
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Albert Alschuler's study of Holmes is very different from other books about him, in that it is an exercise in debunking him.
Author | : Richard Joyce |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2010-04-18 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789048133710 |
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Author | : Michael J. Sandel |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2012-04-24 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1429942584 |
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Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we allow corporations to pay for the right to pollute the atmosphere? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars? Auctioning admission to elite universities? Selling citizenship to immigrants willing to pay? In What Money Can't Buy, Michael J. Sandel takes on one of the biggest ethical questions of our time: Is there something wrong with a world in which everything is for sale? If so, how can we prevent market values from reaching into spheres of life where they don't belong? What are the moral limits of markets? In recent decades, market values have crowded out nonmarket norms in almost every aspect of life—medicine, education, government, law, art, sports, even family life and personal relations. Without quite realizing it, Sandel argues, we have drifted from having a market economy to being a market society. Is this where we want to be?In his New York Times bestseller Justice, Sandel showed himself to be a master at illuminating, with clarity and verve, the hard moral questions we confront in our everyday lives. Now, in What Money Can't Buy, he provokes an essential discussion that we, in our market-driven age, need to have: What is the proper role of markets in a democratic society—and how can we protect the moral and civic goods that markets don't honor and that money can't buy?
Author | : Sam Harris |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2011-09-13 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 143917122X |
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Sam Harris dismantles the most common justification for religious faith--that a moral system cannot be based on science.
Author | : Yael Eylat-Tanaka |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9788835415879 |
Download The Book of Values. An Inspirational Guide to Our Moral Dilemmas Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Tara Smith |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2000-01-12 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1442211911 |
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Viable Values examines the most basic foundations of value and morality, demonstrating the shortcomings of major traditional views and proposing that morality is grounded in the objective requirements of human life. Smith argues that human beings need to be moral in order to live, explaining how life is the standard of morality, how flourishing is the proper end and reward of living morally, and how an intelligent egoism is the path to flourishing.
Author | : Phil Zuckerman |
Publisher | : Catapult |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2020-09-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1640094245 |
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“A thoughtful perspective on humans' capacity for moral behavior.” —Kirkus Reviews “A comprehensive introduction to religious skepticism.” —Publishers Weekly In What It Means to Be Moral: Why Religion Is Not Necessary for Living an Ethical Life, Phil Zuckerman argues that morality does not come from God. Rather, it comes from us: our brains, our evolutionary past, our ongoing cultural development, our social experiences, and our ability to reason, reflect, and be sensitive to the suffering of others. By deconstructing religious arguments for God–based morality and guiding readers through the premises and promises of secular morality, Zuckerman argues that the major challenges facing the world today—from global warming and growing inequality to religious support for unethical political policies to gun violence and terrorism—are best approached from a nonreligious ethical framework. In short, we need to look to our fellow humans and within ourselves for moral progress and ethical action. “In this brilliant, provocative, and timely book, Phil Zuckerman breaks down the myth that our morality comes from religion—compellingly making the case that when it comes to the biggest challenges we face today, a secular approach is the only truly moral one.” —Ali A. Rizvi, author of The Atheist Muslim
Author | : Mark Carney |
Publisher | : PublicAffairs |
Total Pages | : 608 |
Release | : 2021-05-25 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 154176871X |
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A bold, urgent argument on the misplacement of value in financial markets and how we can and need to maximize value for the many, not few. As an economist and former banker, Mark Carney has spent his life in various financial roles, in both the public and private sector. VALUE(S) is a meditation on his experiences that examines the short-comings and challenges of the market in the past decade which he argues has led to rampant, public distrust and the need for radical change. Focusing on four major crises-the Global Financial Crisis, the Global Health Crisis, Climate Change and the 4th Industrial Revolution-- Carney proposes responses to each. His solutions are tangible action plans for leaders, companies and countries to transform the value of the market back into the value of humanity.
Author | : Erik J. Wielenberg |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2005-02-07 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1139444697 |
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Suppose there is no God. This might imply that human life is meaningless, that there are no moral obligations and hence people can do whatever they want, and that the notions of virtue and vice and good and evil have no place. Erik J. Wielenberg believes this view to be mistaken and in this book he explains why. He argues that even if God does not exist, human life can have meaning, we do have moral obligations, and virtue is possible. Naturally, the author sees virtue in a Godless universe as different from virtue in a Christian universe, and he develops naturalistic accounts of humility, charity, and hope. The moral landscape in a Godless universe is different from the moral landscape in a Christian universe, but it does indeed exist. Value and Virtue in a Godless Universe is a tour of some of the central landmarks of this under-explored territory.