Agent Centered Morality
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Agent Centered Morality
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Author : George W. Harris
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023-04-28
Agent Centered Morality written by George W. Harris and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-28 with Philosophy categories.
What kinds of persons do we aspire to be, and how do our aspirations fit with our ideas of rationality? In Agent-Centered Morality, George Harris argues that most of us aspire to a certain sort of integrity: We wish to be respectful of and sympathetic to others, and to be loving parents, friends, and members of our communities. Against a prevailing Kantian consensus, Harris offers an Aristotelian view of the problems presented by practical reason, problems of integrating all our concerns into a coherent, meaningful life in a way that preserves our integrity. The task of solving these problems is "the integration test." Systematically addressing the work of major Kantian thinkers, Harris shows that even the most advanced contemporary versions of the Kantian view fail to integrate all of the values that correspond to what we call a moral life. By demonstrating how the meaning of life and practical reason are internally related, he constructs from Aristotle's thought a conceptual scheme that successfully integrates all the characteristics that make a life meaningful, without jeopardizing the place of any. Harris's elucidation of this approach is a major contribution to debates on human agency, practical reason, and morality. What kinds of persons do we aspire to be, and how do our aspirations fit with our ideas of rationality? In Agent-Centered Morality, George Harris argues that most of us aspire to a certain sort of integrity: We wish to be respectful of and sympathetic to
The Nexus
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Author : Jon H. Widener M.D.
language : en
Publisher: WestBow Press
Release Date : 2017-06-28
The Nexus written by Jon H. Widener M.D. and has been published by WestBow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-28 with Religion categories.
The Nexus, so-named because of the operational intersection or Nexus of faith and culture, is an alphabetized manual of cultural artifacts of significance to Christians. In The Nexus, Jon Widener observes how Christianity has lost many battles over the years and how the evangelical community has been fraught with endemic anti-intellectualism. He sees an evangelical insularity taking the form of retreat and retrenchment from the comings and goings of the larger society. Dr. Widener proposes that modern Christian believers correct these deficits by exercising the exhortation of I Pet 3:15 (KJV) to always be prepared to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you. Believers should educate themselves on culturally relevant issues where there are questions of Christian morality. This is the burden and purpose of the book. Accordingly, the standard for inclusion is straight-forward. If the topic is culturally encountered and has moral implications, then it meets the threshold standard for inclusion in the work.
The Blackwell Dictionary Of Western Philosophy
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Author : Nicholas Bunnin
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2009-01-27
The Blackwell Dictionary Of Western Philosophy written by Nicholas Bunnin and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-27 with Philosophy categories.
The Blackwell Dictionary of Western Philosophy The Blackwell Dictionary of Western Philosophy ???The style is fresh and engaging, and it gives a broad and accurate picture of the western philosophical tradition. It is a pleasure to browse in, even if one is not looking for an answer to a particular question.??? David Pears ???Its entries manage to avoid the obscurities of an exaggerated brevity without stretching themselves out, as if seeking to embody whole miniature essays. In short it presents itself as a model of clarity and clarification.??? Alan Montefiore
Moral Aims
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Author : Cheshire Calhoun
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2015-11-02
Moral Aims written by Cheshire Calhoun and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-02 with Philosophy categories.
We rely on two different conceptions of morality. On the one hand, we think of morality as a correct action guide. Morality is accessed by taking up a critical, reflective point of view where our concern is with identifying the moral rules that would be the focus of the requiring activities of persons in a hypothetical social world whose participants were capable of accessing the justifications for everyone's endorsing just this set of rules. On the other hand, in doing virtually anything connected with morality--making demands, offering excuses, justifying choices, expressing moral attitudes, getting uptake on our resentments, and the like-we rely on social practices of morality and shared moral understandings that make our moral activities and attitudes intelligible to others. This second conception of morality, unlike the first, is not shaped by the aim of getting it right or the contrast between correct and merely supposed moral requirements. It is shaped by the moral aim of practicing morality with others within an actual, not merely hypothetical, scheme of social cooperation. If practices based on misguided moral norms seem not to be genuine morality under the first conception, merely hypothetical practices seem not to be the genuine article under the second conception. The premise of this book, which collects together nine previously published essay and a new introduction, is that both conceptions are indispensable. But exactly how is the moral theorist to go about working simultaneously with two such different conceptions of morality? The book's project is not to construct an overarching methodology for handling the two conceptions of morality. Instead, it is to provide case studies of that work being done.
Encyclopedia Of Ethics
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Author : Lawrence C. Becker
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-18
Encyclopedia Of Ethics written by Lawrence C. Becker and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-18 with Philosophy categories.
The editors, working with a team of 325 renowned authorities in the field of ethics, have revised, expanded and updated this classic encyclopedia. Along with the addition of 150 new entries, all of the original articles have been newly peer-reviewed and revised, bibliographies have been updated throughout, and the overall design of the work has been enhanced for easier access to cross-references and other reference features. New entries include * Cheating * Dirty hands * Gay ethics * Holocaust * Journalism * Political correctness * and many more.
Moral Agent And Impartial Spectator
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Author : Gilbert Harman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
Moral Agent And Impartial Spectator written by Gilbert Harman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Ethics categories.
Deterrence And The Crisis In Moral Theory
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Author : Gabriel Palmer-Fernandez
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Release Date : 1996
Deterrence And The Crisis In Moral Theory written by Gabriel Palmer-Fernandez and has been published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with History categories.
The primary aim of this study is to examine the dominant views on the subject of deterrence and the use of nuclear weapons, compare them with each other, and consider objections that have or might be made against them. A second, more substantive aim is to show that nuclear weapons and war-fighting plans engender some disturbing moral dilemmas that call into question fundamental ways of thinking about morality and some of our common intuitions on the relation of intentions and actions. Deterrence and the Crisis in Moral Theory points to a profound conflict in moral theory between the ideals of character and the moral claims of politics.
Right Actions And Good Persons
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Author : Marjaana Kopperi
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-08-20
Right Actions And Good Persons written by Marjaana Kopperi and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-20 with Philosophy categories.
First published in 1999, this work tests the ancient against the modern in discussing whether modern approaches to ethics remain sufficiently able to provide a serious and justifiable account of morality. Marjaana Kopperi explores ancient, medieval and enlightenment philosophy to compare their notion of moral agents and ‘the good life’ with the more action-based notions of modern philosophy. Kopperi aims to examine how the promoters of agent-based ethical views deal with questions of what constitutes a good life and whether it can or should be quantified or justified.
The Morality Of Hunting
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Author : James Anthony Tantillo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
The Morality Of Hunting written by James Anthony Tantillo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Hunting categories.
Social Theory And Practice
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Social Theory And Practice written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Electronic journals categories.