Author: Peter Singer
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1497645581
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
The essential collection of writings by one of the most visionary and daring philosophers of our time Since bursting sensationally into the public consciousness in 1975 with his groundbreaking work Animal Liberation, Peter Singer has remained one of the most provocative ethicists of the modern age. His reputation, built largely on isolated incendiary quotations and outrage-of-the-moment news coverage, has preceded him ever since. Aiming to present a more accurate and thoughtful picture of Singer’s pioneering work, Writings on an Ethical Life features twenty-seven excerpts from some of his most lauded and controversial essays and books. The reflections on life, death, murder, vegetarianism, poverty, and ethical living found in these pages come together in a must-read collection for anyone seeking a better understanding of the issues that shape our world today. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Peter Singer, including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.
Writings on an Ethical Life
Author: Peter Singer
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1497645581
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
The essential collection of writings by one of the most visionary and daring philosophers of our time Since bursting sensationally into the public consciousness in 1975 with his groundbreaking work Animal Liberation, Peter Singer has remained one of the most provocative ethicists of the modern age. His reputation, built largely on isolated incendiary quotations and outrage-of-the-moment news coverage, has preceded him ever since. Aiming to present a more accurate and thoughtful picture of Singer’s pioneering work, Writings on an Ethical Life features twenty-seven excerpts from some of his most lauded and controversial essays and books. The reflections on life, death, murder, vegetarianism, poverty, and ethical living found in these pages come together in a must-read collection for anyone seeking a better understanding of the issues that shape our world today. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Peter Singer, including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1497645581
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
The essential collection of writings by one of the most visionary and daring philosophers of our time Since bursting sensationally into the public consciousness in 1975 with his groundbreaking work Animal Liberation, Peter Singer has remained one of the most provocative ethicists of the modern age. His reputation, built largely on isolated incendiary quotations and outrage-of-the-moment news coverage, has preceded him ever since. Aiming to present a more accurate and thoughtful picture of Singer’s pioneering work, Writings on an Ethical Life features twenty-seven excerpts from some of his most lauded and controversial essays and books. The reflections on life, death, murder, vegetarianism, poverty, and ethical living found in these pages come together in a must-read collection for anyone seeking a better understanding of the issues that shape our world today. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Peter Singer, including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.
An Ethical Life
Author: Richard Kyte
Publisher: Anselm Academic Christian Brothers Pub.
ISBN: 9781599820743
Category : Ethical intuitionism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Presents a logical, intuitive approach to ethical thinking that relies on native abilities and shows how it's possible to work out complex ethical problems, no sophisticated theories necessary.
Publisher: Anselm Academic Christian Brothers Pub.
ISBN: 9781599820743
Category : Ethical intuitionism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Presents a logical, intuitive approach to ethical thinking that relies on native abilities and shows how it's possible to work out complex ethical problems, no sophisticated theories necessary.
Ethical Life in South Asia
Author: Anand Pandian
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253355281
Category : Religion and ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Outgrowth of an international workshop on the subject of South Asian ethical practices held in Vancouver, Canada in September 2007.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253355281
Category : Religion and ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Outgrowth of an international workshop on the subject of South Asian ethical practices held in Vancouver, Canada in September 2007.
The Ethical Life
Author:
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780190058258
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"A compact yet thorough collection of readings in ethical theory and contemporary moral problems - at the best price"--
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780190058258
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"A compact yet thorough collection of readings in ethical theory and contemporary moral problems - at the best price"--
Ethical Life
Author: Webb Keane
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691176264
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
The human propensity to take an ethical stance toward oneself and others is found in every known society, yet we also know that values taken for granted in one society can contradict those in another. Does ethical life arise from human nature itself? Is it a universal human trait? Or is it a product of one's cultural and historical context? Webb Keane offers a new approach to the empirical study of ethical life that reconciles these questions, showing how ethics arise at the intersection of human biology and social dynamics. Drawing on the latest findings in psychology, conversational interaction, ethnography, and history, Ethical Life takes readers from inner city America to Samoa and the Inuit Arctic to reveal how we are creatures of our biology as well as our history—and how our ethical lives are contingent on both. Keane looks at Melanesian theories of mind and the training of Buddhist monks, and discusses important social causes such as the British abolitionist movement and American feminism. He explores how styles of child rearing, notions of the person, and moral codes in different communities elaborate on certain basic human tendencies while suppressing or ignoring others. Certain to provoke debate, Ethical Life presents an entirely new way of thinking about ethics, morals, and the factors that shape them.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691176264
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
The human propensity to take an ethical stance toward oneself and others is found in every known society, yet we also know that values taken for granted in one society can contradict those in another. Does ethical life arise from human nature itself? Is it a universal human trait? Or is it a product of one's cultural and historical context? Webb Keane offers a new approach to the empirical study of ethical life that reconciles these questions, showing how ethics arise at the intersection of human biology and social dynamics. Drawing on the latest findings in psychology, conversational interaction, ethnography, and history, Ethical Life takes readers from inner city America to Samoa and the Inuit Arctic to reveal how we are creatures of our biology as well as our history—and how our ethical lives are contingent on both. Keane looks at Melanesian theories of mind and the training of Buddhist monks, and discusses important social causes such as the British abolitionist movement and American feminism. He explores how styles of child rearing, notions of the person, and moral codes in different communities elaborate on certain basic human tendencies while suppressing or ignoring others. Certain to provoke debate, Ethical Life presents an entirely new way of thinking about ethics, morals, and the factors that shape them.
An Ethical Philosophy of Life Presented in Its Main Outlines
Author: Felix Adler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The Founding Act of Modern Ethical Life
Author: Ido Geiger
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804754248
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
It is well known that Hegel conceives of history as the gradual process of rational thought and of forms of political life. But he is usually thought to place himself at the end of this process. This book argues that an essential part of Hegel's historical-political thinking has escaped the notice of its interpreters.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804754248
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
It is well known that Hegel conceives of history as the gradual process of rational thought and of forms of political life. But he is usually thought to place himself at the end of this process. This book argues that an essential part of Hegel's historical-political thinking has escaped the notice of its interpreters.
Democracy and the Ethical Life
Author: Claes G. Ryn
Publisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 9780813207117
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This study goes to the heart of ethics and politics. Strongly argued and lucidly written, the book makes a crucial distinction between two forms of democracy
Publisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 9780813207117
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This study goes to the heart of ethics and politics. Strongly argued and lucidly written, the book makes a crucial distinction between two forms of democracy
Gestures of Ethical Life
Author: David Michael Kleinberg-Levin
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804750882
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
For Greek antiquity, the question of right or fitting measure constituted the very heart of both ethics and politics. But can the Good of the ethical life and the Justice of the political be reduced to measurement and calculation? If they are matters of measure, are they not also absolutely immeasurable? In critical dialogue with texts by Plato, Hölderlin, Rilke, Heidegger, Benjamin, Adorno, Marx, Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, and Levi, the author argues that the question of measure has become ever more urgent in the context of a modernity pressured by the conditions of a technological economy and a relativism that threatens to destroy a vital sense of moral responsibility and the commitment to justice that underlies the possibility of freedom. Conceived as a task for the “metaphysics” of memory, this book explores the normative problematic of measure, bringing its deeply buried redemptive promise to appearance in our gestures, uses and abuses of the hands, the dialectic of tact, and the manners of social existence.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804750882
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
For Greek antiquity, the question of right or fitting measure constituted the very heart of both ethics and politics. But can the Good of the ethical life and the Justice of the political be reduced to measurement and calculation? If they are matters of measure, are they not also absolutely immeasurable? In critical dialogue with texts by Plato, Hölderlin, Rilke, Heidegger, Benjamin, Adorno, Marx, Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, and Levi, the author argues that the question of measure has become ever more urgent in the context of a modernity pressured by the conditions of a technological economy and a relativism that threatens to destroy a vital sense of moral responsibility and the commitment to justice that underlies the possibility of freedom. Conceived as a task for the “metaphysics” of memory, this book explores the normative problematic of measure, bringing its deeply buried redemptive promise to appearance in our gestures, uses and abuses of the hands, the dialectic of tact, and the manners of social existence.
Hegel on Second Nature in Ethical Life
Author: Andreja Novakovic
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107175968
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
This book investigates the roles of habit and reflection in Hegel's account of subjective freedom in an objectively rational social order.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107175968
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
This book investigates the roles of habit and reflection in Hegel's account of subjective freedom in an objectively rational social order.