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Author | : Daniel R. DeNicola |
Publisher | : Broadview Press |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2018-11-30 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1460406605 |
Download Moral Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Moral Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction is a compact yet comprehensive book offering an explication and critique of the major theories that have shaped philosophical ethics. Engaging with both historical and contemporary figures, this book explores the scope, limits, and requirements of morality. DeNicola traces our various attempts to ground morality: in nature, in religion, in culture, in social contracts, and in aspects of the human person such as reason, emotions, caring, and intuition.
Author | : John Rawls |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 497 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0674042565 |
Download Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Constantly revised and refined over three decades, Rawls's lectures on various historical figures reflect his developing and changing views on the history of liberalism and democracy. With its careful analyses of the doctrine of the social contract, utilitarianism, and socialism, this volume has a critical place in the traditions it expounds.
Author | : Peter Olsthoorn |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2014-12-03 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1438455488 |
Download Honor in Political and Moral Philosophy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this history of the development of ideas of honor in Western philosophy, Peter Olsthoorn examines what honor is, how its meaning has changed, and whether it can still be of use. Political and moral philosophers from Cicero to John Stuart Mill thought that a sense of honor and concern for our reputation could help us to determine the proper thing to do, and just as important, provide us with the much-needed motive to do it. Today, outside of the military and some other pockets of resistance, the notion of honor has become seriously out of date, while the term itself has almost disappeared from our moral language. Most of us think that people ought to do what is right based on a love for jus-tice rather than from a concern with how we are perceived by others. Wide-ranging and accessible, the book explores the role of honor in not only philosophy but also literature and war to make the case that honor can still play an important role in contemporary life.
Author | : James Rachels |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 169 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780877224051 |
Download The Elements of Moral Philosophy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Socrates said that moral philosophy deals with 'no small matter, but how we ought to live'. Beginning with a minimum conception of what morality is, the author offers discussions of the most important ethical theories. He includes treatments of such topics as cultural relativism, ethical subjectivism, psychological egoism, and ethical egoism.
Author | : Colin Heydt |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108421091 |
Download Moral Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A new account of a vital period in the history of ethics, focusing on the content of morality.
Author | : John E. Hare |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2009-08-17 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1405195983 |
Download God and Morality Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
God and Morality evaluates the ethical theories of four principle philosophers, Aristotle, Duns Scotus, Kant, and R.M. Hare. Uses their thinking as the basis for telling the story of the history and development of ethical thought more broadly Focuses specifically on their writings on virtue, will, duty, and consequence Concentrates on the theistic beliefs to highlight continuity of philosophical thought
Author | : James Rachels |
Publisher | : McGraw Hill |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2012-03-16 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0077147987 |
Download The Elements of Moral Philosophy 7e Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Firmly established as the standard text for undergraduate courses in ethics, James Rachels and Stuart Rachels’ The Elements of Moral Philosophy introduces readers to major moral concepts and theories through eloquent explanations and compelling, thought-provoking discussions.
Author | : Louis P. Pojman |
Publisher | : Hackett Publishing |
Total Pages | : 491 |
Release | : 2009-09-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1603845038 |
Download Moral Philosophy: A Reader Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This collection of classic and contemporary readings in ethics presents sharp, competing views on a wide range of fundamentally important topics: moral relativism and objectivism, ethical egoism, value theory, utilitarianism, deontological ethics, virtue ethics, ethics and religion, and applied ethics. The Fourth Edition dramatically increases the volume’s utility by expanding and updating the selections and introductions while retaining the structure that has made previous editions so successful.
Author | : D. D. Raphael |
Publisher | : Clarendon Press |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2007-01-25 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0191526649 |
Download The Impartial Spectator Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
D. D. Raphael provides a critical account of the moral philosophy of Adam Smith, presented in his first book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Whilst it does not have the same prominence in its field as his work on economics, The Wealth of Nations, Smith's writing on ethics is of continuing importance and interest today, especially for its theory of conscience. Smith sees the origin of conscience in the sympathetic and antipathetic feelings of spectators. As spectators of the actions of other people, we can imagine how we would feel in their situation. If we would share their motives, we approve of their action. If not, we disapprove. When we ourselves take an action, we know from experience what spectators would feel, approval or disapproval. That knowledge forms conscience, an imagined impartial spectator who tells us whether an action is right or wrong. In describing the content of moral judgement, Smith is much influenced by Stoic ethics, with an emphasis on self-command, but he voices criticism as well as praise. His own position is a combination of Stoic and Christian values. There is a substantial difference between the first five editions of the Moral Sentiments and the sixth. Failure to take account of this has led some commentators to mistaken views about the supposed youthful idealism of the Moral Sentiments as contrasted with the mature realism of The Wealth of Nations. A further source of error has been the supposition that Smith treats sympathy as the motive of moral action, as contrasted with the supposedly universal motive of self-interest in The Wealth of Nations.
Author | : Richard Joyce |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2007-08-24 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0262263254 |
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Moral thinking pervades our practical lives, but where did this way of thinking come from, and what purpose does it serve? Is it to be explained by environmental pressures on our ancestors a million years ago, or is it a cultural invention of more recent origin? In The Evolution of Morality, Richard Joyce takes up these controversial questions, finding that the evidence supports an innate basis to human morality. As a moral philosopher, Joyce is interested in whether any implications follow from this hypothesis. Might the fact that the human brain has been biologically prepared by natural selection to engage in moral judgment serve in some sense to vindicate this way of thinking—staving off the threat of moral skepticism, or even undergirding some version of moral realism? Or if morality has an adaptive explanation in genetic terms—if it is, as Joyce writes, "just something that helped our ancestors make more babies"—might such an explanation actually undermine morality's central role in our lives? He carefully examines both the evolutionary "vindication of morality" and the evolutionary "debunking of morality," considering the skeptical view more seriously than have others who have treated the subject. Interdisciplinary and combining the latest results from the empirical sciences with philosophical discussion, The Evolution of Morality is one of the few books in this area written from the perspective of moral philosophy. Concise and without technical jargon, the arguments are rigorous but accessible to readers from different academic backgrounds. Joyce discusses complex issues in plain language while advocating subtle and sometimes radical views. The Evolution of Morality lays the philosophical foundations for further research into the biological understanding of human morality.