Author: R. M. Hare
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN: 0198810776
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Hare has written a clear, brief, and readable introduction to ethics which looks at all the fundamental problems of the subject.
The Language of Morals
Author: R. M. Hare
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN: 0198810776
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Hare has written a clear, brief, and readable introduction to ethics which looks at all the fundamental problems of the subject.
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN: 0198810776
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Hare has written a clear, brief, and readable introduction to ethics which looks at all the fundamental problems of the subject.
The Morals of Modernity
Author: Charles Larmore
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521497725
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Arguing against recent attempts to return to the virtue-centered perspective of ancient Greek ethics, these essays explore the problem of the relation between moral philosophy and modernity by studying the differences between ancient and modern ethics.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521497725
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Arguing against recent attempts to return to the virtue-centered perspective of ancient Greek ethics, these essays explore the problem of the relation between moral philosophy and modernity by studying the differences between ancient and modern ethics.
The Principles of Morals and Legislation
Author: Jeremy Bentham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil law
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Discusses morals' functions and natures that affect the legislation in general. Bases the discussions on pain and pleasure as basic principle of law embodiment. Mentions of the circumstance influencing sensibility, general human actions, intentionality, conciousness, motives, human dispositions, consequencess of mischievous act, case of punishment, and offences' division.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil law
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Discusses morals' functions and natures that affect the legislation in general. Bases the discussions on pain and pleasure as basic principle of law embodiment. Mentions of the circumstance influencing sensibility, general human actions, intentionality, conciousness, motives, human dispositions, consequencess of mischievous act, case of punishment, and offences' division.
The Concept Of Morals
Author: W T Stace
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
ISBN: 9781013764288
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
ISBN: 9781013764288
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Ethics Without Morals
Author: Joel Marks
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 041563556X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
In this volume, Marks offers a defense of amorality as both philosophically justified and practicably livable. In so doing, the book marks a radical departure from both the new atheism and the mainstream of modern ethical philosophy. While in synch with their underlying aim of grounding human existence in a naturalistic metaphysics, the book takes both to task for maintaining a complacent embrace of morality. Marks advocates wiping the slate clean of outdated connotations by replacing the language of morality with a language of desire. The book begins with an analysis of what morality is and then argues that the concept is not instantiated in reality. Following this, the question of belief in morality is addressed: How would human life be affected if we accepted that morality does not exist? Marks argues that at the very least, a moralist would have little to complain about in an amoral world, and at best we might hope for a world that was more to our liking overall. An extended look at the human encounter with nonhuman animals serves as an illustration of amorality's potential to make both theoretical and practical headway in resolving heretofore intractable ethical problems.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 041563556X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
In this volume, Marks offers a defense of amorality as both philosophically justified and practicably livable. In so doing, the book marks a radical departure from both the new atheism and the mainstream of modern ethical philosophy. While in synch with their underlying aim of grounding human existence in a naturalistic metaphysics, the book takes both to task for maintaining a complacent embrace of morality. Marks advocates wiping the slate clean of outdated connotations by replacing the language of morality with a language of desire. The book begins with an analysis of what morality is and then argues that the concept is not instantiated in reality. Following this, the question of belief in morality is addressed: How would human life be affected if we accepted that morality does not exist? Marks argues that at the very least, a moralist would have little to complain about in an amoral world, and at best we might hope for a world that was more to our liking overall. An extended look at the human encounter with nonhuman animals serves as an illustration of amorality's potential to make both theoretical and practical headway in resolving heretofore intractable ethical problems.
An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
Author: David Hume
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Morals from Motives
Author: Michael Slote
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190207930
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Morals from Motives develops a virtue ethics inspired more by Hume and Hutcheson's moral sentimentalism than by recently-influential Aristotelianism. It argues that a reconfigured and expanded "morality of caring" can offer a general account of right and wrong action as well as social justice. Expanding the frontiers of ethics, it goes on to show how a motive-based "pure" virtue theory can also help us to understand the nature of human well-being and practical reason.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190207930
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Morals from Motives develops a virtue ethics inspired more by Hume and Hutcheson's moral sentimentalism than by recently-influential Aristotelianism. It argues that a reconfigured and expanded "morality of caring" can offer a general account of right and wrong action as well as social justice. Expanding the frontiers of ethics, it goes on to show how a motive-based "pure" virtue theory can also help us to understand the nature of human well-being and practical reason.
The Language of Morals
Author: Richard Mervyn Hare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
"I have set out in this book to write a clear, brief, and readable introduction to ethics which shall bring the beginner as directly as possible to grips with the fundamental problems of the subject. I have therefore, in reducing the material which I had prepared to about half its original length, left out most of those qualifications, answers to minor objections, and other defences with which the security-minded philosopher is apt to hedge himself round ... Almost every paragraph in this book, as in other works of philosophy, requires some qualification; but to supply it on every occasion would be to make my main contentions difficult to grasp. I have therefore tried to adopt throughout as definite a standpoint as possible, in the belief that it is more important that there should be discussion of the points herein raised, than that I should survive it unscathed." -- Preface.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
"I have set out in this book to write a clear, brief, and readable introduction to ethics which shall bring the beginner as directly as possible to grips with the fundamental problems of the subject. I have therefore, in reducing the material which I had prepared to about half its original length, left out most of those qualifications, answers to minor objections, and other defences with which the security-minded philosopher is apt to hedge himself round ... Almost every paragraph in this book, as in other works of philosophy, requires some qualification; but to supply it on every occasion would be to make my main contentions difficult to grasp. I have therefore tried to adopt throughout as definite a standpoint as possible, in the belief that it is more important that there should be discussion of the points herein raised, than that I should survive it unscathed." -- Preface.
The Geography of Morals
Author: Owen J. Flanagan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190212152
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
Variations -- On being imprisoned by one's upbringing -- Moral psychologies and moral ecologies -- Bibliographical essay -- First nature -- Classical Chinese sprouts -- Modern moral psychology -- Beyond moral modularity -- Destructive emotions -- Bibliographic essay -- Collisions -- When values collide -- Moral geographies of anger -- Weird anger -- For love's and justice's sake -- Bibliographical essay -- Anthropologies -- Self-variations: philosophical archaeologies -- The content of character.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190212152
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
Variations -- On being imprisoned by one's upbringing -- Moral psychologies and moral ecologies -- Bibliographical essay -- First nature -- Classical Chinese sprouts -- Modern moral psychology -- Beyond moral modularity -- Destructive emotions -- Bibliographic essay -- Collisions -- When values collide -- Moral geographies of anger -- Weird anger -- For love's and justice's sake -- Bibliographical essay -- Anthropologies -- Self-variations: philosophical archaeologies -- The content of character.
The Emotional Construction of Morals
Author: Jesse Prinz
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019928301X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
Jesse Prinz presents a bravura argument for highly controversial claims about morality, which go to the heart of our understanding of ourselves. He argues that moral values are based on emotional responses, and that these are inculcated by culture, not hard-wired through natural selection. These two claims support a form of moral relativism.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019928301X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
Jesse Prinz presents a bravura argument for highly controversial claims about morality, which go to the heart of our understanding of ourselves. He argues that moral values are based on emotional responses, and that these are inculcated by culture, not hard-wired through natural selection. These two claims support a form of moral relativism.