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Author : Arthur William Hope Adkins
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (459 download)
Download or read book Merit and Responsibility written by Arthur William Hope Adkins and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur W. H. Adkins
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (875 download)
Download or read book Merit and Responsibility written by Arthur W. H. Adkins and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A W H (Arthur W H ) Adkins
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781013427985
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (279 download)
Download or read book Merit and Responsibility written by A W H (Arthur W H ) Adkins and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Arthur W. H. Adkins
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Book Rating : 4.:/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Merit and responsibility written by Arthur W. H. Adkins and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Conan Wolfsdorf
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198758677
Total Pages : 828 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Early Greek Ethics written by David Conan Wolfsdorf and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-05-22 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Greek Ethics is the first volume devoted to philosophical ethics in its "formative" period. It explores contributions from the Presocratics, figures of the early Pythagorean tradition, sophists, and anonymous texts, as well as topics influential to ethical philosophical thought such as Greek medicine, music, friendship, and justice.
Author : Rik Peels
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190608110
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Responsible Belief written by Rik Peels and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What we believe and what we do not believe has a great impact on what we do and fail to do. Hence, if we want to act responsibly, we should believe responsibly. However, do we have the kind of control over our beliefs that such responsibility for our beliefs seems to require? Do we have certain obligations to control or influence our beliefs on particular occasions? And do we sometimes believe responsibly despite violating such obligations, namely because we are excused by, say, indoctrination or ignorance? By answering each of these questions, Rik Peels provides a theory of what it is to believe responsibly. He argues that we lack control over our beliefs, but that we can nonetheless influence our beliefs by performing actions that make a difference to what we believe. We have a wide variety of moral, prudential, and epistemic obligations to perform such belief-influencing actions. We can be held responsible for our beliefs in virtue of such influence on our beliefs. Sometimes, we believe responsibly despite having violated such obligations, namely if we are excused, by force, ignorance, or luck. A careful consideration of these excuses teaches us, respectively, that responsible belief entails that we could have failed to have that belief, that responsible belief is in a specific sense radically subjective, and that responsible belief is compatible with its being a matter of luck that we hold that belief.
Author : Odysseus Tsagarakis
Publisher : Franz Steiner Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783515074636
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (746 download)
Download or read book Studies in Odyssey 11 written by Odysseus Tsagarakis and published by Franz Steiner Verlag. This book was released on 2000 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph deals with the main problems of the Eleventh Book of the Odyssey (the Nekyia) in the light of recent research. The journey to the underworld is not only troublesome in its composition but also important for its place in the poem, perhaps the most important of the hero's adventures. After a brief introduction, which surveys the present state of research and outlines methodology, the book examines in four chapters: 1. The question of the sources (borrowings, influences etc.) from the Epic of Gilgamesh to the Greek catabaseis (those of Heracles, Orpheus, Theseus and Peirithous) and cult practices at the Oracles of the Dead (the Thesprotian Oracle and that of Trophonius in Lebadeia). 2. The relation of our Nekyia to the poem and especially to the apologoi, as it is part of a larger composition, and its themes (journey to the land of the dead, catabasis, nekyomanteia). 3. The problematic parts of the Book and the question of their authenticity, Catalogue of Heroines, Intermezzo and Review of Hades. 4. The concepts of the Afterlife with the two contrasting views about the fate of psyche. There follows: a conclusion, which gives a summary of the results reached in the discussion of individual topics, select bibliography and the indexes (a Greek index, an index of passages and a general index).
Author : Nomy Arpaly
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400824508
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Merit, Meaning, and Human Bondage written by Nomy Arpaly and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-15 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps everything we think, feel, and do is determined, and humans--like stones or clouds--are slaves to the laws of nature. Would that be a terrible state? Philosophers who take the incompatibilist position think so, arguing that a deterministic world would be one without moral responsibility and perhaps without true love, meaningful art, and real rationality. But compatibilists and semicompatibilists argue that determinism need not worry us. As long as our actions stem, in an appropriate way, from us, or respond in some way to reasons, our actions are meaningful and can be judged on their moral (or other) merit. In this highly original work, Nomy Arpaly argues that a deterministic world does not preclude moral responsibility, rationality, and love--in short, meaningful lives--but that there would still be something lamentable about a deterministic world. A person may respond well to reasons, and her actions may faithfully reflect her true self or values, but she may still feel that she is not free. Arpaly argues that compatibilists and semicompatibilists are wrong to dismiss this feeling--for which there are no philosophical consolations--as philosophically irrelevant. On the way to this bittersweet conclusion, Arpaly sets forth surprising theories about acting for reasons, the widely accepted idea that "ought implies can," moral blame, and more.
Author : Michael J. Sandel
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374720991
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)
Download or read book The Tyranny of Merit written by Michael J. Sandel and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Times Literary Supplement’s Book of the Year 2020 A New Statesman's Best Book of 2020 A Bloomberg's Best Book of 2020 A Guardian Best Book About Ideas of 2020 The world-renowned philosopher and author of the bestselling Justice explores the central question of our time: What has become of the common good? These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds are stacked in favor of the already fortunate. Stalled social mobility and entrenched inequality give the lie to the American credo that "you can make it if you try". The consequence is a brew of anger and frustration that has fueled populist protest and extreme polarization, and led to deep distrust of both government and our fellow citizens--leaving us morally unprepared to face the profound challenges of our time. World-renowned philosopher Michael J. Sandel argues that to overcome the crises that are upending our world, we must rethink the attitudes toward success and failure that have accompanied globalization and rising inequality. Sandel shows the hubris a meritocracy generates among the winners and the harsh judgement it imposes on those left behind, and traces the dire consequences across a wide swath of American life. He offers an alternative way of thinking about success--more attentive to the role of luck in human affairs, more conducive to an ethic of humility and solidarity, and more affirming of the dignity of work. The Tyranny of Merit points us toward a hopeful vision of a new politics of the common good.
Author : Yascha Mounk
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674978293
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)
Download or read book The Age of Responsibility written by Yascha Mounk and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yascha Mounk shows why a focus on personal responsibility is wrong and counterproductive: it distracts us from the larger economic forces determining aggregate outcomes, ignores what we owe fellow citizens regardless of their choices, and blinds us to key values such as the desire to live in a society of equals. In this book he proposes a remedy.
Author : Charles L. Griswold
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521119480
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)
Download or read book Ancient Forgiveness written by Charles L. Griswold and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, eminent scholars of classical antiquity and ancient and medieval Judaism and Christianity explore the nature and place of forgiveness in the pre-modern Western world. They discuss whether the concept of forgiveness, as it is often understood today, was absent, or at all events more restricted in scope than has been commonly supposed, and what related ideas (such as clemency or reconciliation) may have taken the place of forgiveness. An introductory chapter reviews the conceptual territory of forgiveness and illuminates the potential breadth of the idea, enumerating the important questions a theory of the subject should explore. The following chapters examine forgiveness in the contexts of classical Greece and Rome; the Hebrew Bible, the Talmud, and Moses Maimonides; and the New Testament, the Church Fathers, and Thomas Aquinas.
Author : Travis B. Williams
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161532511
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (325 download)
Download or read book Good Works in 1 Peter written by Travis B. Williams and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2014-10-08 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on recent insights from postcolonial theory and social psychology, Travis B. Williams seeks to diagnose the social strategy of good works in 1 Peter by examining how the persistent admonition to "do good" is intended to be an appropriate response to social conflict. Challenging the modern consensus, which interprets the epistle's good works language as an attempt to accommodate Greco-Roman society and thereby to lessen social hostility, the author demonstrates that the exhortation to "do good" envisages a pattern of conduct which stands opposed to popular values. The Petrine author appropriates terminology that was commonly associated with wealth and social privilege and reinscribes it with a new meaning in order to provide his marginalized readers with an alternative vision of reality, one in which the honor and approval so valued in society is finally available to them. The good works theme thus articulates a competing discourse which challenges dominant social structures and the hegemonic ideology which underlies them.
Author : Tariq Tawfeeq Yousif Alabdullah
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 2384760521
Total Pages : 757 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (847 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the International Conference on Intellectuals’ Global Responsibility (ICIGR 2022) written by Tariq Tawfeeq Yousif Alabdullah and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-05-19 with total page 757 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an open access book. The Covid-19 pandemic has become a global issue have a great impact in almost all fields including in the economic, social, political, cultural and education, and has created social pressures community economy. Almost all over the country having trouble. However, this has consequences for declining economic growth has had an impact on social life, including in countries in ASEAN and especially in Indonesia. We are only at the beginning of the most challenging part, which is how we will emerge out of this situation and return to a “new normal. These challenges highlight the importance of science, technology, and innovation as the decisive factors in any scenario of emergence from the crisis and economic recovery. To eliminate Covid-19 and find solutions to its effects are endeavored through research in various fields of sciences. Hopefully, the cure can be found and the new situation can be adapted.
Author : John Randolph Lucas
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Responsibility written by John Randolph Lucas and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Responsibility is a key concept in our moral, social and political thinking, but is not itself properly understood. In this book J.R. Lucas elucidates it in terms of answerability--the obligation to answer the question: Why did you do it? He develops this account to include negative responsibility-- Why did you not do something about it?-- and shared responsibility, which together yield the rationale of political responsibility. In disentangling these two strands of argument, he points out potential conflicts between them within our ideal of responsible government. He exposes the flaws in consequentialism generally, and the utilitarian theory of punishment in particular, and argues for the insights of retributive theories but without their vindictiveness. He devotes separate chapters to rewards, money, and personal relations, outlines the fundamental principles of business and professional ethics, and finally touches on those issues that go beyond responsibility altogether.
Author : Paul Russell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317133005
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Free Will and Reactive Attitudes written by Paul Russell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The philosophical debate about free will and responsibility has been of great importance throughout the history of philosophy. In modern times this debate has received an enormous resurgence of interest and the contribution in 1962 by P.F. Strawson with the publication of his essay "Freedom and Resentment" has generated a wide range of discussion and criticism in the philosophical community and beyond. The debate is of central importance to recent developments in the free will literature and has shaped the way contemporary philosophers now approach the problem. This volume brings together a focused selection of the major contributions and reactions to the free will and responsibility debate inspired by Strawson's contribution. McKenna and Russell also provide a comprehensive overview of the debate. This book will be of great value to scholars of Strawson and those interested in the free will debate more generally.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Manpower and Civil Service
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Violations and Abuses of Merit Principles in Federal Employment written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Manpower and Civil Service and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brookings Institution. International Studies Group
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (311 download)
Download or read book The Administration of Foreign Affairs and Overseas Operations written by Brookings Institution. International Studies Group and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
