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Author | : Robert Merrihew Adams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 425 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0195153715 |
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The book proposes a framework for ethics that is organized around a transcendent Good and its relation to the many finite goods of our experience. Two main themes are the central role of the Good in ethics and the transcendence of the infinite Good, which is identified with God.
Author | : Robert Merrihew Adams |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 1999-07-29 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0195128486 |
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The book proposes a framework for ethics that is organized around a transcendent Good and its relation to the many finite goods of our experience. Two main themes are the central role of the Good in ethics and the transcendence of the infinite Good, which is identified with God.
Author | : Robert Merrihew Adams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Religion and ethics |
ISBN | : 9780199869381 |
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Robert Adams gives a comprehensive philosophical account of a theistically-based framework for ethics. He draws on over 20 years of his published work to create this overarching framework, which is based upon the idea of a transcendent, infinite good, which is God, and its relation to the many finite examples of good in our experience.
Author | : James Carse |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 155 |
Release | : 2011-10-11 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1451657293 |
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“There are at least two kinds of games,” states James P. Carse as he begins this extraordinary book. “One could be called finite; the other infinite. A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.” Finite games are the familiar contests of everyday life; they are played in order to be won, which is when they end. But infinite games are more mysterious. Their object is not winning, but ensuring the continuation of play. The rules may change, the boundaries may change, even the participants may change—as long as the game is never allowed to come to an end. What are infinite games? How do they affect the ways we play our finite games? What are we doing when we play—finitely or infinitely? And how can infinite games affect the ways in which we live our lives? Carse explores these questions with stunning elegance, teasing out of his distinctions a universe of observation and insight, noting where and why and how we play, finitely and infinitely. He surveys our world—from the finite games of the playing field and playing board to the infinite games found in culture and religion—leaving all we think we know illuminated and transformed. Along the way, Carse finds new ways of understanding everything, from how an actress portrays a role to how we engage in sex, from the nature of evil to the nature of science. Finite games, he shows, may offer wealth and status, power and glory, but infinite games offer something far more subtle and far grander. Carse has written a book rich in insight and aphorism. Already an international literary event, Finite and Infinite Games is certain to be argued about and celebrated for years to come. Reading it is the first step in learning to play the infinite game.
Author | : Robert Merrihew Adams |
Publisher | : Clarendon Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2008-10-23 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0191564494 |
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The distinguished philosopher Robert M. Adams presents a major work on virtue, which is once again a central topic in ethical thought. A Theory of Virtue is a systematic, comprehensive framework for thinking about the moral evaluation of character. Many recent attempts to stake out a place in moral philosophy for this concern define virtue in terms of its benefits for the virtuous person or for human society more generally. In Part One of this book Adams presents and defends a conception of virtue as intrinsic excellence of character, worth prizing for its own sake and not only for its benefits. In the other two parts he addresses two challenges to the ancient idea of excellence of character. One challenge arises from the importance of altruism in modern ethical thought, and the question of what altruism has to do with intrinsic excellence. Part Two argues that altruistic benevolence does indeed have a crucial place in excellence of character, but that moral virtue should also be expected to involve excellence in being for other goods besides the well-being (and the rights) of other persons. It explores relations among cultural goods, personal relationships, one's own good, and the good of others, as objects of excellent motives. The other challenge, the subject of Part Three of the book, is typified by doubts about the reality of moral virtue, arising from experiments and conclusions in social psychology. Adams explores in detail the prospects for an empirically realistic conception of excellence of character as an object of moral aspiration, endeavor, and education. He argues that such a conception will involve renunciation of the ancient thesis of the unity or mutual implication of all virtues, and acknowledgment of sufficient 'moral luck' in the development of any individual's character to make virtue very largely a gift, rather than an individual achievement, though nonetheless excellent and admirable for that.
Author | : C. Stephen Evans |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2013-02-28 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199696683 |
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C. Stephen Evans defends the claim that moral obligations are best understood as divine commands or requirements; hence an important part of morality depends on God. God's requirements are communicated in a variety of ways, including conscience, and that natural law ethics and virtue ethics provide complementary perspectives to this view.
Author | : Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 2004-08-02 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521535762 |
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Author | : Mark C. Murphy |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0198796919 |
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Every version of the argument from evil requires a premise concerning God's motivation - about the actions that God is motivated to perform or the states of affairs that God is motivated to bring about. The typical source of this premise is a conviction that God is, obviously, morally perfect, where God's moral perfection consists in God's being motivated to act in accordance with the norms of morality by which both we and God are governed. The aim of God's Own Ethics is to challenge this understanding by giving arguments against this view of God as morally perfect and by offering an alternative account of what God's own ethics is like. According to this alternative account, God is in no way required to promote the well-being of sentient creatures, though God may rationally do so. Any norms of conduct that favor the promotion of creaturely well-being that govern God's conduct are norms that are contingently self-imposed by God. This revised understanding of divine ethics should lead us to revise sharply downward our assessment of the force of the argument from evil while leaving intact our conception of God as an absolutely perfect being, supremely worthy of worship.
Author | : Marvin Lee Minsky |
Publisher | : Prentice Hall |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : |
Download Computation: Finite and Infinite Machines Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Ramez Naam |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1611683769 |
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A surprising, convincing, and optimistic argument for meeting the crisis of scarcity with the power of ideas