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Author | : Charles Larmore |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2021-06-17 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1108472346 |
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This book develops an account of morality, freedom, and reason that breaks with many leading currents of modern thought. Starting from an analysis of moral judgment, it branches into related topics such as freedom and the causal order, textual interpretation, the self and self-knowledge, and duties to ourselves.
Author | : Angus Ritchie |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2012-11-22 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199652511 |
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Angus Ritchie offers an argument for the existence of God, which is based on our most fundamental moral beliefs. He argues for the 'deliberative indispensability' of moral realism, and asserts that only theism can adequately explain our capacity for knowledge of objective moral truths.
Author | : Immanuel Kant |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2008-10-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0300128150 |
Download Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Immanuel Kant’s Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals is one of the most important texts in the history of ethics. In it Kant searches for the supreme principle of morality and argues for a conception of the moral life that has made this work a continuing source of controversy and an object of reinterpretation for over two centuries. This new edition of Kant’s work provides a fresh translation that is uniquely faithful to the German original and more fully annotated than any previous translation. There are also four essays by well-known scholars that discuss Kant’s views and the philosophical issues raised by the Groundwork. J.B. Schneewind defends the continuing interest in Kantian ethics by examining its historical relation both to the ethical thought that preceded it and to its influence on the ethical theories that came after it; Marcia Baron sheds light on Kant’s famous views about moral motivation; and Shelly Kagan and Allen W. Wood advocate contrasting interpretations of Kantian ethics and its practical implications.
Author | : Iris Murdoch |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 1994-03-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1101495790 |
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The decline of religion and ever increasing influence of science pose acute ethical issues for us all. Can we reject the literal truth of the Gospels yet still retain a Christian morality? Can we defend any 'moral values' against the constant encroachments of technology? Indeed, are we in danger of losing most of the qualities which make us truly human? Here, drawing on a novelist's insight into art, literature and abnormal psychology, Iris Murdoch conducts an ongoing debate with major writers, thinkers and theologians—from Augustine to Wittgenstein, Shakespeare to Sartre, Plato to Derrida—to provide fresh and compelling answers to these crucial questions.
Author | : Benjamin J. Bruxvoort Lipscomb |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 3110220032 |
Download Kant's Moral Metaphysics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Recent interpreters of Kant's philosophy and contemporary advocates of broadly neo-Kantian views generally minimize the importance of Kant's metaphysical beliefs. This volume re-evaluates these minimizing approaches with particular reference to Kant's moral philosophy, exploring Kantian positions on such topics as moral corruption, the relation between God and ethics, the metaphysics of human freedom, and the possibility of knowledge of God. This volume is the first to place these topics within the context of the Critical philosophy as a whole, encouraging not only a more metaphysical, but also a more holistic reading of Kant.
Author | : Roger Crisp |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 920 |
Release | : 2013-01-31 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0191655767 |
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Philosophical ethics consists in the human endeavour to answer rationally the fundamental question of how we should live. The Oxford Handbook of the History of Ethics explores the history of philosophical ethics in the western tradition from Homer until the present day. It provides a broad overview of the views of many of the main thinkers, schools, and periods, and includes in addition essays on topics such as autonomy and impartiality. The authors are international leaders in their field, and use their expertise and specialist knowledge to illuminate the relevance of their work to discussions in contemporary ethics. The essays are specially written for this volume, and in each case introduce the reader to the main lines of interpretation and criticism that have arisen in the professional history of philosophy over the past two or three decades.
Author | : Carol Rovane |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2013-12-16 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0674726979 |
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Relativism is a hotly contested doctrine among philosophers, some of whom regard it as neither true nor false but simply incoherent. As Carol Rovane demonstrates in this analytical tour-de-force, the way to defend relativism is not initially by establishing its truth but by clarifying its content. The Metaphysics and Ethics of Relativism elaborates a doctrine of relativism that has a consistent logical, metaphysical, and practical significance. Relativism is worth debating, Rovane contends, because it bears directly on the moral choices we make in our lives. Three intuitive conceptions of relativism have been influential in philosophical discourse. These include the idea that certain unavoidable disagreements are irresolvable, leading to the conclusion that "both sides are right," and the idea that truth is always relative to context. But the most compelling, Rovane maintains, is the "alternatives intuition." Alternatives are truths that cannot be embraced together because they are not universal. Something other than logical contradiction excludes them. When this is so, logical relations no longer hold among all truth-value-bearers. Some truths will be irreconcilable between individuals even though they are valid in themselves. The practical consequence is that some forms of interpersonal engagement are confined within definite boundaries, and one has no choice but to view what lies beyond those boundaries with what Rovane calls "epistemic indifference." In a very real sense, some people inhabit different worlds--true in themselves, but closed off to belief from those who hold irreducibly incompatible truths.
Author | : Immanuel Kant |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 1836 |
Genre | : Ethics |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Immanuel Kant |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2023-09-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3387044550 |
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Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author | : Immanuel Kant |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 105 |
Release | : 2013-06-28 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1627932151 |
Download On the Metaphysics of Morals and Ethics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Collected here in this omnibus edition are Immanuel Kant's three most important works on the Metaphysics of Morals and Ethics. Included are Kant: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Introduction to the Metaphysic of Morals, and The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics. Kant's Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals is one of the most important works in modern moral philosophy. It belongs beside Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, and Hobbes. Here Kant sets out to articulate and defend the Categorical Imperative - the fundamental principle that underlies moral reasoning - and to lay the foundation for a comprehensive account of justice and human virtues. In Introduction to the Metaphysic of Morals Kant states: "All duties are either duties of right, that is, juridical duties, or duties of virtue, that is, ethical duties. Juridical duties are such as may be promulgated by external legislation; ethical duties are those for which such legislation is not possible." In The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics states: "If there exists on any subject a philosophy (that is, a system of rational knowledge based on concepts), then there must also be for this philosophy a system of pure rational concepts, independent of any condition of intuition, in other words, a metaphysic. It may be asked whether metaphysical elements are required also for every practical philosophy, which is the doctrine of duties, and therefore also for Ethics."