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Author : John Prior Estlin
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Familiar Lectures on Moral Philosophy written by John Prior Estlin and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonathan Wolff
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691149003
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Lectures on the History of Moral and Political Philosophy written by Jonathan Wolff and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-27 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously unpublished writings from one of the most important political philosophers of recent times G. A. Cohen was one of the leading political philosophers of recent times. He first came to wide attention in 1978 with the prize-winning book Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence. In subsequent decades his published writings largely turned away from the history of philosophy, focusing instead on equality, freedom, and justice. However, throughout his career he regularly lectured on a wide range of moral and political philosophers of the past. This volume collects these previously unpublished lectures. Starting with a chapter centered on Plato, but also discussing the pre-Socratics as well as Aristotle, the book moves to social contract theory as discussed by Hobbes, Locke, and Hume, and then continues with chapters on Kant, Hegel, and Nietzsche. The book also contains some previously published but uncollected papers on Marx, Hobbes, and Kant, among other figures. The collection concludes with a memoir of Cohen written by the volume editor, Jonathan Wolff, who was a student of Cohen's. A hallmark of the lectures is Cohen's engagement with the thinkers he discusses. Rather than simply trying to render their thought accessible to the modern reader, he tests whether their arguments and positions are clear, sound, and free from contradiction. Throughout, he homes in on central issues and provides fresh approaches to the philosophers he examines. Ultimately, these lectures teach us not only about some of the great thinkers in the history of moral and political philosophy, but also about one of the great thinkers of our time: Cohen himself.
Author : Michele M. Moody-Adams
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674041196
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Fieldwork in Familiar Places written by Michele M. Moody-Adams and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The persistence of deep moral disagreements--across cultures as well as within them--has created widespread skepticism about the objectivity of morality. Moral relativism, moral pessimism, and the denigration of ethics in comparison with science are the results. Fieldwork in Familiar Places challenges the misconceptions about morality, culture, and objectivity that support these skepticisms, to show that we can take moral disagreement seriously and yet retain our aspirations for moral objectivity. Michele Moody-Adams critically scrutinizes the anthropological evidence commonly used to support moral relativism. Drawing on extensive knowledge of the relevant anthropological literature, she dismantles the mystical conceptions of culture that underwrite relativism. She demonstrates that cultures are not hermetically sealed from each other, but are rather the product of eclectic mixtures and borrowings rich with contradictions and possibilities for change. The internal complexity of cultures is not only crucial for cultural survival, but will always thwart relativist efforts to confine moral judgments to a single culture. Fieldwork in Familiar Places will forever change the way we think about relativism: anthropologists, psychologists, historians, and philosophers alike will be forced to reconsider many of their theoretical presuppositions. Moody-Adams also challenges the notion that ethics is methodologically deficient because it does not meet standards set by natural science. She contends that ethics is an interpretive enterprise, not a failed naturalistic one: genuine ethical inquiry, including philosophical ethics, is a species of interpretive ethnography. We have reason for moral optimism, Moody-Adams argues. Even the most serious moral disagreements take place against a background of moral agreement, and thus genuine ethical inquiry will be fieldwork in familiar places. Philosophers can contribute to this enterprise, she believes, if they return to a Socratic conception of themselves as members of a rich and complex community of moral inquirers.
Author : Knud Haakonssen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521498029
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Natural Law and Moral Philosophy written by Knud Haakonssen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-02-23 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing the most comprehensive guide to modern natural law theory available, this major contribution to the history of philosophy sets out the full background to liberal ideas of rights and contractarianism, and offers an extensive study of the Scottish Enlightenment.
Author : Jerome B. Schneewind
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198245520
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (455 download)
Download or read book Sidgwick's Ethics and Victorian Moral Philosophy written by Jerome B. Schneewind and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Sidgwick's The Methods of Ethics challenges comparison, as no other work in moral philosophy, with Aristotle's Ethics in the depth of its understanding of practical rationality, and in its architectural coherence it rivals the work of Kant. In this historical, rather than critical study, Professor Schneewind shows how Sidgwick's arguments and conclusions represent rational developments of the work of Sidgwick's predecessors, and brings out the nature and structure of the reasoning underlying his position.
Author : Philip Pettit
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190904933
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)
Download or read book The Birth of Ethics written by Philip Pettit and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine a human society, perhaps in pre-history, in which people were generally of a psychological kind with us, had the use of natural language to communicate with one another, but did not have any properly moral concepts in which to exhort one another to meet certain standards and to lodge related claims and complaints. According to The Birth of Ethics, the members of that society would have faced a set of pressures, and made a series of adjustments in response, sufficient to put them within reach of ethical concepts. Without any planning, they would have more or less inevitably evolved a way of using such concepts to articulate desirable patterns of behavior and to hold themselves and one another responsible to those standards. Sooner or later, they would have entered ethical space. While this central claim is developed as a thesis in conjectural history or genealogy, the aim of the exercise is philosophical. Assuming that it explains the emergence of concepts and practices that are more or less equivalent to ours, the story offers us an account of the nature and role of morality. It directs us to the function that ethics plays in human life and alerts us to the character in virtue of which it can serve that function. The emerging view of morality has implications for the standard range of questions in meta-ethics and moral psychology, and enables us to understand why there are divisions in normative ethics like that between consequentialist and Kantian approaches.
Author : Stefano Bacin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107182859
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Emergence of Autonomy in Kant's Moral Philosophy written by Stefano Bacin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thorough study of why Kant developed the concept of autonomy, one of his central legacies for contemporary moral thought.
Author : Michael James Lacey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521446532
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (465 download)
Download or read book A Culture of Rights written by Michael James Lacey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-11-27 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume provide insights into the rights thinking and consciousness at the core of American political culture.
Author : Literary and Philosophical Society (NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE)
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Total Pages : 900 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Literary and Philosophical Society, of Newcastle-upon Tyne written by Literary and Philosophical Society (NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE) and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Library of Congress
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Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of Congress written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Mark Baldwin
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology written by James Mark Baldwin and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 666 pages
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Download or read book B. Systematic philosophy. C. Logic. D. Aesthetics. E. Philosophy of religion. F. Ethics. G. Psychology written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Bibliography of Philosophy, Psychology, and Cognate Subjects written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Julian
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1666 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book A Dictionary of Hymnology written by John Julian and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 1666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Julian
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1638 pages
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Download or read book A Dictionary of Hymnology, Setting Forth the Origin and History of Christian Hymns of All Ages and Nations, with Special Reference to Those Contained in the Hymn Books of English-speaking Countries ... written by John Julian and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 1638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : University of the State of New York (Albany, NY)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Annual report of the regents written by University of the State of New York (Albany, NY) and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : University of the State of New York. Board of Regents
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Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Annual Report of the Regents of the University, to the Legislature of the State of New-York written by University of the State of New York. Board of Regents and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
