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Author : Hugh Storer Chandler
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820488585
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (885 download)
Download or read book Platonistic and Disenchanting Theories of Ethics written by Hugh Storer Chandler and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Original Scholarly Monograph
Author : Rupert Clendon Lodge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Plato's Theory of Ethics written by Rupert Clendon Lodge and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Timothy Chappell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199684855
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book Knowing What To Do written by Timothy Chappell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents what philosophical ethics can be like if freed from the idealizing and reductive pressures of conventional moral theory, making the case that moral imagination is a key part of human virtue by showing the variety of roles it plays in our practical and evaluative lives.
Author : Robin Barrow
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135171440
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)
Download or read book Plato, Utilitarianism and Education (International Library of the Philosophy of Education Volume 3) written by Robin Barrow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three lines of argument are central to this book: that Plato's views as expounded in the Republic indicate that he was a utilitarian; that utilitarianism is the only acceptable ethical theory; that these conclusions have significant repercussions for education. Throughout the book the exposition of utilitarianism and the interpretation of the Republic are closely linked. The author assesses the nature of recent Platonic criticism and provides a critical summary of the Republic. He expounds and defends utilitarianismn and examines in greater depth the consequences for education of accepting a utilitarian position, showing how, for example, from this standpoint such key terms in educational debate as 'autonomy' and 'self-development' must be reassessed as educational objectives.
Author : John Gould
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Development of Plato's Ethics written by John Gould and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John M. Rist
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780511155000
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (55 download)
Download or read book Real Ethics written by John M. Rist and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur Bernard Cook
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Metaphysical Basis of Plato's Ethics written by Arthur Bernard Cook and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A. I. Melden
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1447485106
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Ethical Theories written by A. I. Melden and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-01-09 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The assumption in preparing this volume of reading has been that the most effective way in which an understanding of ethics or moral philosophy can be promoted is through a reading of the original source materials essays written by outstanding and representative thinkers. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author : Edmund Abegg
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 076186153X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)
Download or read book Political Morality in a Disenchanted World written by Edmund Abegg and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political morality concerns what programs and policies government ought to adopt. What would this morality look like in a disenchanted world, one in which rationality prevails? The enchanted world is extensive, including not just religion but traditional morality. In this book, Edmund Abegg constructs a coherent path that leads from abstract psychological and moral theory to ideal political and economic scenarios and then to their real-world applications, which for him are in terms of national political goals. These goals, individual autonomy and welfare, function as political morality in this new framework in place of traditional mythical ideas such as justice. Descriptive chapters on our current world indicate that these goals are in play, if only partly. Concerning these national moral-political goals, which may be domestic or international, the crucial distinction he seeks to establish is between aggregated or big-picture goals and individualized goals. The latter are typically seen as establishing individual rights. This book establishes a framework that clarifies important public policy issues in a way not possible if a jungle growth of myth envelopes our efforts with confusion and unnecessary controversies.
Author : M. Francis Reeves
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780761827702
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (277 download)
Download or read book Platonic Engagements written by M. Francis Reeves and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2004 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Platonic Engagements, Helen, a college senior majoring in business and philosophy, raises central questions about ideal individual morality, social justice, education, political philosophies and management based on Plato's principles in the Republic. Plato's moral relevance to current issues in democratic capitalism is put to the test in this contemporary philosophical dialogue.
Author : Gordon F. Davis
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319674072
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)
Download or read book Ethics without Self, Dharma without Atman written by Gordon F. Davis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-18 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of essays offers direct comparisons of historic Western and Buddhist perspectives on ethics and metaphysics, tracing parallels and contrasts all the way from Plato to the Stoics, Spinoza to Hume, and Schopenhauer through to contemporary ethicists such as Arne Naess, Charles Taylor and Derek Parfit. It compares and contrasts each Western philosopher with a particular strand in the Buddhist tradition, in some chapters represented by individual writers such as Nagarjuna, Vasubandhu, Santideva or Tsong Khapa. It does so in light of both analytic concerns and themes from the existentialist and phenomenological traditions, and often in an ecumenical spirit that bridges both analytic and continentalist approaches. Some of the deepest questions in ethics, dealing with the scope of agency, value-laden notions of personhood and the nature of value in general, are intertwined with questions in metaphysics. One set of questions addresses how varying conceptions of selfhood relate to moral values (e.g. the concern of self or selves for the well-being of others); another set of questions addresses how a conception of oneself or one’s selves should or should not affect how one thinks of happiness, or eudaimonia, or – in classical Indian terms – artha, sukha or nirvana. Western philosophy has featured discussion of both, but some would argue that certain traditions of Asian philosophy have offered a more sustained and even treatment of both sets of questions. The Buddhist tradition in particular has not only featured much discussion on both fronts, but has attracted many contemporary philosophers to its distinctive spectrum of approaches, and to what is – from many ‘Western’ points of view – a seemingly subversive analysis of ego, selfhood and personhood, whether in metaphysical, phenomenological or other incarnations.
Author : Bernard Williams
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674257553
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy written by Bernard Williams and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1986-03-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bernard Williams is an eloquent member of that small but important group of distinguished thinkers who are trying to erase the borders between the experts and all of us who grapple with moral issues in our own lives. In this book he delivers a sustained indictment of systematic moral theory from Kant onward and offers a persuasive alternative. Kant’s ideas involved a view of the self we can no longer accept. Modern theories such as utilitarianism and contractualism usually offer criteria that lie outside the self altogether, and this, together with an emphasis on system, has weakened ethical thought. Why should a set of ideas have any special authority over our sentiments just because it has the structure of a theory? How could abstract theory help the individual answer the Socratic question “How should I live?” Williams’s goal is nothing less than to reorient ethics toward the individual. He accuses modern moral philosophers of retreating to system and deserting individuals in their current social context. He believes that the ethical work of Plato and Aristotle is nearer to the truth of what ethical life is, but at the same time recognizes that the modern world makes unparalleled demands on ethical thought. He deals with the most thorny questions in contemporary philosophy and offers new ideas about issues such as relativism, objectivity, and the possibility of ethical knowledge. Williams has written an imaginative, ingenious book that calls for philosophers to transcend their self-imposed limits and to give full attention to the complexities of the ethical life.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 754 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book American Book Publishing Record written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stanley G. Clarke
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791499251
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Anti-Theory in Ethics and Moral Conservatism written by Stanley G. Clarke and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1989-05-28 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume documents a movement from theory and rules in ethics to an account of morality based on local practice and perception of the particular case. The Introduction lays the foundation for this position, then the authors draw from the analytic tradition as they forcefully argue against theory derived from different philosophical ancestors. In the second half they examine moral conservatism, exhibiting how placing moral practice as primary does not restrict one to any form of political conservatism.
Author : Arthur James Wells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 870 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Catherine Burgass
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429861389
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)
Download or read book Challenging Theory: Discipline After Deconstruction written by Catherine Burgass and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999, this volume perceives that English literature in under threat as an academic discipline. In Challenging Theory, Catherine Burgass warns against the recent trend towards the conflation of literature teaching with cultural studies in British and American universities. Focusing on theory of deconstruction, as developed by Jacques Derrida in the 1960s, the book redresses some common mistenterpretations of Derrinda’s work relating to the status of metaphysical oppositions. Part One discusses textual differences and the ways in which these may dissolve and reform according to different cultural contexts. The practical issues associated with teaching literature and literary theory in universities are examined in Part Two, while Part Three high-lights some of the move invidious claims of literary theorists, and questions the value of metaphysical analysis as a tool for political critique. Challenging Theory tackles an important debate that lies at the heart of humanities teaching. It illuminates the impact on academia of the work of critical theorists over the last thirty tears, and provides a platform for future reassessment of the relationships between literature, philosophy and theory.
Author : John McGuire
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004364927
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Cynical Suspicions and Platonist Pretentions written by John McGuire and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Cynical Suspicions and Platonist Pretensions, John McGuire offers a critique of recent trends in contemporary political theory, specifically concerning the ‘dangers’ of cynicism and the contamination of public reason. In the view of many theorists and pundits, cynicism remains one of the gravest ills to befall any democratic society, injecting a virulent estrangement which leaves sufferers unable to trust elected representatives and unwilling to participate in collective action. Starting with a reconstruction of the performative and rhetorical tactics of the ‘first’ Cynic, Diogenes of Sinope (c. 323 BCE), John McGuire aims to demonstrate how cynicism’s non-defeatist, relentlessly sceptical ethos provides an important counterweight to the self-aggrandising designs of moralists and policymakers alike.
