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Ontic Ethics

Author : Hollis G. Wright
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498520111
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Ontic Ethics written by Hollis G. Wright and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-04-13 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book claims that any one who cares more and better, exists more and better. Much has been written about how character affects action, but this book describes how actions and passions affect character ontologically. There is an independent, not culturally relative source for the ethics of care in an ontology of the self. Ethical and aesthetic flourishing is at once ontological flourishing of the largest, truest self. The book includes many illustrations of how behavior and attitudes have consequences not only for who, but for how much we are. It refines the concept of flourishing originating with Aristotle, showing how values that encourage flourishing of the world as it relates to any person, reflexively enhance the flourishing of that person, hence offering a bridge across the fact/value chasm and a cure for ethical relativism. Classical and modern philosophers writing about the nature of a self are engaged to provide a platform from which further advances can be made on several problems in general philosophy that relate to the ontology of a self. These include the use of the term “existence,” a bundle theory showing a way substance can be made up of attributes, an exploration of unity in a self, an evaluation of necessary constituents of selfhood, a theory of how persons are constituted in space and time, a portrayal of how existential intensity relates to the exercise of power, and a proposal about how free acts and stances can be connected to character. Applications of an ontology of care to problems of partiality, specialization, limitation, age and death are outlined in the final chapters. All these issues are engaged to explicate the connection between ontological and ethical flourishing of the self/world combination.

Ethics in the Gray Area

Author : Martin Peterson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009336789
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Ethics in the Gray Area written by Martin Peterson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-25 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What should morally conscientious agents do if they must choose among options that are somewhat right and somewhat wrong? Should one select an option that is right to the highest degree, or would it perhaps be more rational to choose randomly among all somewhat right options? And how should lawmakers and courts address behaviour that is neither entirely right nor entirely wrong? In this first book-length discussion of the 'gray area' in ethics, Martin Peterson challenges the assumption that rightness and wrongness are binary properties and explores acts which are neither entirely right nor entirely wrong, but rather a bit of both. Including discussions of white lies and the permissibility of abortion, Peterson's book presents a gradualist theory of right and wrong designed to answer these and other practical questions about the gray area in ethics.

Heidegger and Practical Philosophy

Author : François Raffoul
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 079148873X
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Book Synopsis Heidegger and Practical Philosophy by : François Raffoul

Download or read book Heidegger and Practical Philosophy written by François Raffoul and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heidegger has often been reproached for his alleged neglect of practical issues, specifically his "inability" to propose or articulate an ethics or politics. This book investigates the extent to which Heidegger's thought can be read as a crucial resource for practical philosophy and the articulation of an ethos for our time. Leading scholars from around the world offer a sustained and intensive focus on Heidegger's thought of praxis, working through such motifs as freedom, the possibility of ethics, the political, responsibility, community, nihilism, technology and the contemporary ethos, among others. Ultimately, this volume reveals the practical senses of ontology, and the ontological senses of praxis by exhibiting the practicality of Being itself.

Heidegger, Ethics and the Practice of Ontology

Author : David Webb
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441155392
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Heidegger, Ethics and the Practice of Ontology written by David Webb and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heidegger, Ethics and the Practice of Ontology presents an important new examination of ethics and ontology in Heidegger. There remains a basic conviction throughout Heidegger's thought that the event by which Being is given or disclosed is somehow 'prior' to our relation to the many beings we meet in our everyday lives. This priority makes it possible to talk about Being 'as such'. It also sanctions the relegation of ethics to a secondary position with respect to ontology. However, Heidegger's acknowledgement that ontology itself must remain intimately bound to concrete existence problematises the priority accorded to the ontological dimension. David Webb takes this bond as a key point of reference and goes on to develop critical perspectives that open up from within Heidegger's own thought, particularly in relation to Heidegger's debt to Aristotelian physics and ethics. Webb examines the theme of continuity and its role in the constitution of the 'as such' in Heidegger's ontology and argues that to address ontology is to engage in an ethical practice and vice versa.

Worldviews, Ethics and Organizational Life

Author : Michel Dion
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030823555
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Worldviews, Ethics and Organizational Life written by Michel Dion and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-11-24 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an innovative way to revisit the depth and scope of our moral/post-moral worldviews, while undertaking an ontic reflection about organizational life. The ontic dimension of life refers to existing entities’ lived experiences. It has nothing to do with psychological and relational processes. The ontic level of analysis mirrors a philosophical outlook on organizational life. Unlike moral worldviews, post-moral worldviews oppose the existence of Truth-itself. Post-moral worldviews rather imply that dialogical relationships allow people to express their own truth-claims and welcome others’ truth-claims. The purpose of this book is to explain the philosophical implications of moral and post-moral worldviews and the way to move from a moral to a post-moral worldview. Moreover, this book explores the possibility to transcend the moral/post-moral dualism, through moral deliberation processes and a reinterpretation of the Presence of the Infinite in all dimensions of human life. This book could eventually help to better grasp the basic philosophical challenges behind ethical reflection about organizational issues.

Information Experience in Theory and Design

Author : Tim Gorichanaz
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839093706
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Information Experience in Theory and Design written by Tim Gorichanaz and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SI 14 provides a rigorous theoretical foundation for the study of information experience, an emerging field within Information Science. With particular focus on information behavior and literacy, it explores the importance and implications of individual user experience through the themes of understanding, meaning, and self.

The Philosophical Diseases of Medicine and their Cure

Author : Josef Seifert
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402028717
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophical Diseases of Medicine and their Cure written by Josef Seifert and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-11-02 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At all times physicians were bound to pursue not only medical tasks, but to reflect also on the many anthropological and metaphysical aspects of their discipline, such as on the nature of life and death, of health and sickness, and above all on the vital ethical dimensions of their practice. For centuries, almost for two millennia, how ever, those who practiced medicine lived in a relatively clearly defined ethical and implicitly philosophical or religious 'world-order' within which they could safely turn to medical practice, knowing right from wrong, or at least being told what to do and what not to do. Today, however, the situation has radically changed, mainly due to three quite different reasons: First and most obviously, physicians today are faced with a tremendous development of new possibilities and techniques which allow previously unheard of medical interventions (such as cloning, cryo-conservation, ge netic interference, etc. ) which call out for ethical reflection and wise judgment but regarding which there is no legal and medical ethical tradition. Traditional medical education did not prepare physicians for coping with this new brave world of mod em medicine. Secondly, there are the deep philosophical crises and the philosophical diseases of medicine mentioned in the preface that lead to a break-down of firm and formative legal and ethical norms for medical actions.

A History of Catholic Moral Theology in the Twentieth Century

Author : James F. Keenan
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826429297
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)

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Book Synopsis A History of Catholic Moral Theology in the Twentieth Century by : James F. Keenan

Download or read book A History of Catholic Moral Theology in the Twentieth Century written by James F. Keenan and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-01-17 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an historical survey of 20th Century Roman Catholic Theological Ethics (also known as moral theology). The thesis is that only through historical investigation can we really understand how the most conservative and negative field in Catholic theology at the beginning of the 20th could become by the end of the 20th century the most innovative one. The 20th century begins with moral manuals being translated into the vernacular. After examining the manuals of Thomas Slater and Henry Davis, Keenan then turns to three works and a crowning synthesis of innovation all developed before, during and soon after the Second World War. The first by Odon Lottin asks whether moral theology is adequately historical; Fritz Tillmann asks whether it's adequately biblical; and Gerard Gilleman, whether it's adequately spiritual. Bernard Haering integrates these contributions into his Law of Christ. Of course, people like Gerald Kelly and John Ford in the US are like a few moralists elsewhere, classical gate keepers, censoring innovation. But with Humanae vitae, and successive encyclicals, bishops and popes reject the direction of moral theologians. At the same time, moral theologians, like Josef Fuchs, ask whether the locus of moral truth is in continuous, universal teachings of the magisterium or in the moral judgment of the informed conscience. In their move toward a deeper appreciation of their field as forming consciences, they turn more deeply to local experience where they continue their work of innovation. Each continent subsequently gives rise to their own respondents: In Europe they speak of autonomy and personalism; in Latin America, liberation theology; in North America, Feminism and Black Catholic theology; and, in Asia and Africa a deep post-colonial interculturatism. At the end I assert that in its nature, theological ethics is historical and innovative, seeking moral truth for the conscience by looking to speak crossculturally.

Safeguarding Our Common Future

Author : Ingrid Leman Stefanovic
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791446515
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (465 download)

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Download or read book Safeguarding Our Common Future written by Ingrid Leman Stefanovic and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2000-08-31 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utilizes Heidegger in rethinking common environmental paradigms.

The Ethics of Information

Author : Luciano Floridi
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191502464
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book The Ethics of Information written by Luciano Floridi and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luciano Floridi develops an original ethical framework for dealing with the new challenges posed by Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). ICTs have profoundly changed many aspects of life, including the nature of entertainment, work, communication, education, health care, industrial production and business, social relations, and conflicts. They have had a radical and widespread impact on our moral lives and on contemporary ethical debates. Privacy, ownership, freedom of speech, responsibility, technological determinism, the digital divide, and pornography online are only some of the pressing issues that characterise the ethical discourse in the information society. They are the subject of Information Ethics (IE), the new philosophical area of research that investigates the ethical impact of ICTs on human life and society. Since the seventies, IE has been a standard topic in many curricula. In recent years, there has been a flourishing of new university courses, international conferences, workshops, professional organizations, specialized periodicals and research centres. However, investigations have so far been largely influenced by professional and technical approaches, addressing mainly legal, social, cultural and technological problems. This book is the first philosophical monograph entirely and exclusively dedicated to it. Floridi lays down, for the first time, the conceptual foundations for IE. He does so systematically, by pursuing three goals: a) a metatheoretical goal: it describes what IE is, its problems, approaches and methods; b) an introductory goal: it helps the reader to gain a better grasp of the complex and multifarious nature of the various concepts and phenomena related to computer ethics; c) an analytic goal: it answers several key theoretical questions of great philosophical interest, arising from the investigation of the ethical implications of ICTs. Although entirely independent of The Philosophy of Information (OUP, 2011), Floridi's previous book, The Ethics of Information complements it as new work on the foundations of the philosophy of information.

Reframing Catholic Theological Ethics

Author : Joseph A. Selling
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198767129
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Reframing Catholic Theological Ethics written by Joseph A. Selling and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditionally, Catholic moral theology has been based upon an approach that over-emphasized the role of normative ethics and subsequently associated moral responsibility with following or disobeying moral rules. Reframing Catholic Theological Ethics offers an alternative ethical method which, without destroying any of the valuable insights of normative ethics, reorients the discipline to consider human motivation and intention before investigating behavioral options for realizing one's end. Evidence from the New Testament warrants the formation of a teleological method for theological ethics which is further elaborated in the approach taken by Thomas Aquinas. Unfortunately, the insights of the latter were misinterpreted at the time of the counter-reformation. Joseph A. Selling's analysis of moral theological textbooks demonstrates the entrenchment of a normative method aimed at identifying sins in service to the practice of sacramental confession. With a firm basis in the teaching of Vatican II, the "human person integrally and adequately considered" provides the fundamental criterion for approaching ethical issues in the contemporary world. The perspective then turns to the crucial question of describing the ends or goals of ethical living by providing a fresh approach to the concept of virtue. Selling concludes with suggestions about how to combine normative ethics with this alternative method in theological ethics that begins with the actual, ethical orientation of the human person toward virtuous living.

Time, Space and Ethics in the Philosophy of Watsuji Tetsurō, Kuki Shūzō, and Martin Heidegger

Author : Graham Mayeda
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0415976731
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book Time, Space and Ethics in the Philosophy of Watsuji Tetsurō, Kuki Shūzō, and Martin Heidegger written by Graham Mayeda and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Time, Space, and Ethics in the Thought of Martin Heidegger, Watsuji Tetsuro, and Kuki Shuzo

Author : Graham Mayeda
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135506159
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book Time, Space, and Ethics in the Thought of Martin Heidegger, Watsuji Tetsuro, and Kuki Shuzo written by Graham Mayeda and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-06-27 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Graham Mayeda demonstrates how Watsuji Tetsuro and Kuki Shuzo, two twentieth-century Japanese philosophers, criticize and interpret Heideggerian philosophy, articulating traditional Japanese ethics in a modern idiom.

Dissensus Communis

Author : Philippe van Haute
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789039004036
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Dissensus Communis written by Philippe van Haute and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reflects on the problematic relation of ethics to politics in our 'democratic' era. If democracy implies the loss of an ultimate foundation for both ethics and political action, how can it be defended against its (ultra-nationalist, fundamentalist, ...) critics. Are there reasons for being a 'democrat' and what does it mean to be so or to act 'democratically'. Does this merely imply strict obedience to certain procedures that we call 'democratic' or does a democratic society ask for a democratic attitude or ethos. If so, how can this ethos be defined and grounded. All contributions to this volume articulate answers to these questions or to problems intrinsically related to them (i.e. what is the status of the law when it loses ultimate foundation). They do so by reflecting on the work of some important contemporary French philosophers: Lefort, Lyotard, Derrida, Levinas, Lacan, etc

Divine Command Ethics

Author : Michael J. Harris
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134430264
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Divine Command Ethics written by Michael J. Harris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the response of the classic texts of Jewish tradition to Plato's 'Euthyphro dilemma': Does God freely determine morality, or is morality independent of God?

Bhakti Ethics, Emotions, and Love in Gau?iya Vai??ava Metaethics

Author : Cogen Bohanec
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666943355
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Bhakti Ethics, Emotions, and Love in Gau?iya Vai??ava Metaethics written by Cogen Bohanec and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-07-08 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bhakti Ethics, Emotions, and Love in Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava Metaethics explores the broader implications of understanding bhakti, “devotional love to the divine,” as an ethical theory based on a “realist” account of emotions, where emotions are sensory perceptions of the real ethical qualities of classes of actions. The book spotlights one complex articulation of an Indian epistemology and ontology of ethics based on the metaphysics of Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava psychology of emotions in dialogue with a variety of academic fields, including the philosophy of religion and related methodologies such as virtue ethics, theological voluntarism, and ecofeminist and feminist care ethics. The work discusses how emotions are understood metaphysically as extra-mental, objectively real qualities, what Cogen Bohanec refers to as “affective realism.” This follows from a cosmogenic model where the universe emanates from the loving relationship between the divine feminine, Rādhā, and her intense loving relationship with her masculine counterpart, Kṛṣṇa. Since the origin of all of reality emanates from the ultimacy of an affective relationship, then the fabric of reality can be described as having objectively real affective qualities and that is the basis for grounding this ethical system.

The Cambridge Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics

Author : Luciano Floridi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139487523
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics written by Luciano Floridi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have profoundly changed many aspects of life, including the nature of entertainment, work, communication, education, healthcare, industrial production and business, social relations and conflicts. They have had a radical and widespread impact on our moral lives and hence on contemporary ethical debates. The Cambridge Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics, first published in 2010, provides an ambitious and authoritative introduction to the field, with discussions of a range of topics including privacy, ownership, freedom of speech, responsibility, technological determinism, the digital divide, cyber warfare, and online pornography. It offers an accessible and thoughtful survey of the transformations brought about by ICTs and their implications for the future of human life and society, for the evaluation of behaviour, and for the evolution of moral values and rights. It will be a valuable book for all who are interested in the ethical aspects of the information society in which we live.