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Author | : Matthew Dennis |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2018-03-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1351591533 |
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The aim of Ethics and Self-Cultivation is to establish and explore a new ‘cultivation of the self’ strand within contemporary moral philosophy. Although the revival of virtue ethics has helped reintroduce the eudaimonic tradition into mainstream philosophical debates, it has by and large been a revival of Aristotelian ethics combined with a modern preoccupation with standards for the moral rightness of actions. The essays comprising this volume offer a fresh approach to the eudaimonic tradition: instead of conditions for rightness of actions, it focuses on conceptions of human life that are best for the one living it. The first section of essays looks at the Hellenistic schools and the way they influenced modern thinkers like Spinoza, Kant, Nietzsche, Hadot, and Foucault in their thinking about self-cultivation. The second section offers contemporary perspectives on ethical self-cultivation by drawing on work in moral psychology, epistemology of self-knowledge, philosophy of mind, and meta-ethics.
Author | : P. J. Ivanhoe |
Publisher | : Hackett Publishing |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780872205086 |
Download Confucian Moral Self Cultivation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A concise and accessible introduction to the evolution of the concept of moral self-cultivation in the Chinese Confucian tradition, this volume begins with an explanation of the pre-philosophical development of ideas central to this concept, followed by an examination of the specific treatment of self cultivation in the philosophy of Kongzi (Confucius), Mengzi (Mencius), Xunzi, Zhu Xi, Wang Yangming, Yan Yuan and Dai Zhen. In addition to providing a survey of the views of some of the most influential Confucian thinkers on an issue of fundamental importance to the tradition, Ivanhoe also relates their concern with moral self-cultivation to a number of topics in the Western ethical tradition. Bibliography and index are included.
Author | : Michael A. Peters |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2021-07-30 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9811380279 |
Download Moral Education and the Ethics of Self-Cultivation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Educational philosophies of self-cultivation as the cultural foundation and philosophical ethos for education have strong and historically effective traditions stretching back to antiquity in the classical ‘cradle’ civilizations of China and East Asia, India and Pakistan, Greece and Anatolia, focused on the cultural traditions in Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism in the East and Hellenistic philosophy in the West. This volume in East-West dialogues in philosophy of education examines both Confucian and Western classical traditions revealing that although each provides its own distinct figure of the virtuous person, they are remarkably similar in their conception and emphasis on moral self-cultivation as a practical answer to how humans become virtuous. The collection also examines self-cultivation in Japanese traditions and also the nature of Michel Foucault’s work in relation to ethical and aesthetic ideals of Hellenistic self-cultivation.
Author | : Kwong-Loi Shun |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2004-09-13 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521796576 |
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A comparative study of the Confucian and Western view of the self.
Author | : Robert Edgar Carter |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2008-01-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780791472545 |
Download The Japanese Arts and Self-Cultivation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Explores how spiritual values are learned and mind and body developed through the practice of the Japanese arts.
Author | : Shannon Vallor |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 019049851X |
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The 21st century offers a dizzying array of new technological developments: robots smart enough to take white collar jobs, social media tools that manage our most important relationships, ordinary objects that track, record, analyze and share every detail of our daily lives, and biomedical techniques with the potential to transform and enhance human minds and bodies to an unprecedented degree. Emerging technologies are reshaping our habits, practices, institutions, cultures and environments in increasingly rapid, complex and unpredictable ways that create profound risks and opportunities for human flourishing on a global scale. How can our future be protected in such challenging and uncertain conditions? How can we possibly improve the chances that the human family will not only live, but live well, into the 21st century and beyond? This book locates a key to that future in the distant past: specifically, in the philosophical traditions of virtue ethics developed by classical thinkers from Aristotle and Confucius to the Buddha. Each developed a way of seeking the good life that equips human beings with the moral and intellectual character to flourish even in the most unpredictable, complex and unstable situations--precisely where we find ourselves today. Through an examination of the many risks and opportunities presented by rapidly changing technosocial conditions, Vallor makes the case that if we are to have any real hope of securing a future worth wanting, then we will need more than just better technologies. We will also need better humans. Technology and the Virtues develops a practical framework for seeking that goal by means of the deliberate cultivation of technomoral virtues: specific skills and strengths of character, adapted to the unique challenges of 21st century life, that offer the human family our best chance of learning to live wisely and well with emerging technologies.
Author | : James Laidlaw |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1107028469 |
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A clearly written, sophisticated summary of and prospectus for a flourishing current field of anthropological research.
Author | : Rebecca Stangl |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0197508456 |
Download Neither Heroes Nor Saints Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Most of us are far from perfect in virtue. Faced with this fact, moral philosophers can respond in two different ways. On the one hand, they might insist that the only real virtue is perfect virtue, and the only right actions are perfectly virtuous ones. Any failure to meet the exacting standards of perfect virtue will amount to vice, and any less than perfectly virtuous actions will be wrong. On the other hand, and if they reject such a rigorist picture, they can instead affirm that there are actions that are truly good and right even if they fall short of perfection. This book urges the attractions of a virtue ethics committed to the second sort of picture. In doing so, it makes two major innovations. First, it constructs and defends Neo-Aristotelian accounts of supererogation and suberogation. But just as importantly, and far from encouraging a kind of complacency, the recognition that there can be genuine goodness short of perfection is precisely what opens up theoretical space for appreciating the goodness of striving towards ideal virtue. Thus, the second major innovation it makes is to show that self-improvement itself can be morally excellent, and the disposition to seek and engage in it, where appropriate, can itself be a virtue"--
Author | : Nancy E. Snow |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199967423 |
Download Cultivating Virtue Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Though virtue ethics is enjoying a resurgence, the topic of virtue cultivation has been largely neglected by philosophers. This book features essays by philosophers, theologians, and psychologists at the forefront of research into virtue.--Publisher's description.
Author | : Brian Bruya |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 427 |
Release | : 2015-04-03 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0262028433 |
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For too long, analytic philosophy discounted insights from the Chinese philosophical tradition. In the last decade or so, however, philosophers have begun to bring the insights of Chinese to bear on current philosophical issues. This volume brings together leading scholars from East and West who are working at the intersection of traditional Chinese philosophy and mainstream analytic philosophy. Their essays draw on the work of Chinese philosophers ranging from early Daoists and Confucians to twentieth-century Chinese thinkers, offering new perspectives on issues in moral psychology, political philosophy, ethics, metaphysics, and epistemology. Taken together, these essays show that serious engagement with Chinese philosophy can not only enrich modern philosophical discussion but also shift the debate in a meaningful way. Each essay challenges a current position in the philosophical literature--including positions expressed by John Rawls, Peter Singer, Nel Noddings, W. V. Quine, and Harry Frankfurt. The topics include compassion as a developmental virtue, empathy, human worth and democracy, ethical self-restriction, epistemological naturalism, ideas of oneness, know-how, and action without agency. -- Inside jacket flap.