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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 : Julia Annas
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801466970
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Platonic Ethics, Old and New written by Julia Annas and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-08 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julia Annas here offers a fundamental reexamination of Plato's ethical thought by investigating the Middle Platonist perspective, which emerged at the end of Plato's own school, the Academy. She highlights the differences between ancient and modern assumptions about Plato's ethics—and stresses the need to be more critical about our own. One of these modern assumptions is the notion that the dialogues record the development of Plato's thought. Annas shows how the Middle Platonists, by contrast, viewed the dialogues as multiple presentations of a single Platonic ethical philosophy, differing in form and purpose but ultimately coherent. They also read Plato's ethics as consistently defending the view that virtue is sufficient for happiness, and see it as converging in its main points with the ethics of the Stoics. Annas goes on to explore the Platonic idea that humankind's final end is "becoming like God"—an idea that is well known among the ancients but virtually ignored in modern interpretations. She also maintains that modern interpretations, beginning in the nineteenth century, have placed undue emphasis on the Republic, and have treated it too much as a political work, whereas the ancients rightly saw it as a continuation of Plato's ethical writings.
Author : R.C. Lodge
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317830245
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Plato's Theory of Ethics written by R.C. Lodge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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 : Paul Schollmeier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139458884
Total Pages : 17 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Human Goodness written by Paul Schollmeier and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-02 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human Goodness presents an original, pragmatic moral theory that successfully revives and revitalizes the classical Greek concept of happiness. It also includes in-depth discussions of our freedoms, our obligations, and our virtues, as well as adroit comparisons with the moral theories of Kant and Hume. Paul Schollmeier explains that the Greeks define happiness as an activity that we may perform for its own sake. Obvious examples might include telling stories, making music, or dancing. He then demonstrates that we may use the pragmatic method to discover and to define innumerable activities of this kind. Schollmeier's demonstration rests on the modest assumption that our happiness takes not one ideal form, but many empirical forms.
Author : A. Melden
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1447485106
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Ethical Theories written by A. Melden and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 404 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 : 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 Pretentions, John McGuire conducts a critical analysis of contemporary political theory with a view to facilitating a less reductive understanding of political disaffection.
Author : James Martineau
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1596052597
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Types of Ethical Theory written by James Martineau and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A synthesis of the lifelong thinking of British theologian philosopher JAMES MARTINEAU (1805-1900), this astonishing work, written when he was 80 and published in 1885, continues to offer important insight into the borderlands between faith and reason. A devout champion of Christianity, Martineau was also one of the first religious thinkers to recognize the import of Darwin's theory of evolution, and here, he interprets and applies ethics-which he defines as "the doctrine of human character"-in a world undergoing a radical paradigm shift. In Volume I, Martineau examines the philosophies of Plato, Descartes, Malebranche, Spinoza, and Comte and explores concepts of how we know what we know, how we can interpret knowledge, and what separates truth from fact.
Author : Robert B. Louden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195360958
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Morality and Moral Theory written by Robert B. Louden and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1992-05-28 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary philosophers have grown increasingly skeptical toward both morality and moral theory. Some argue that moral theory is a radically misguided enterprise that does not illuminate moral practice, while others simply deny the value of morality in human life. In this important new book, Louden responds to the arguments of both "anti-morality" and "anti-theory" skeptics. In Part One, he develops and defends an alternative conception of morality, which, he argues, captures more of the central features of both Aristotelian and Kantian ethics than do other contemporary models, and enables the central importance of morality to be convincingly reaffirmed. In Louden's model, morality is primarily a matter of what one does to oneself, rather than what one does or does not do to others. This model eliminates the gulf that many anti-morality critics say exists between morality's demands and the personal point of view. Louden further argues that morality's primary focus should be on agents and their lives, rather than on right actions, and that it is always better to be morally better--i.e. it is impossible to be "too moral." Part Two presents Louden's alternative conception of moral theory. Here again he draws on the work of Aristotle and Kant, showing that their moral theories have far more in common than is usually thought, and that those features that they share can be the basis for a viable moral theory that is immune to the standard anti-theory objections. Louden reaffirms the necessity and importance of moral theory in human life, and shows that moral theories fulfill a variety of genuine and indispensable human needs.
Author : Rudolf Eucken
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Ethics and Modern Thought written by Rudolf Eucken and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Heinaman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351910760
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Plato and Aristotle's Ethics written by Robert Heinaman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, emanating from the Fourth Keeling Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, presents essays and comments by nine outstanding scholars of ancient philosophy, which examine the influence of Plato on the development of Aristotle's ethics. The essays focus on the role of pleasure in happiness and the good life (Christopher Taylor and Sarah Broadie), the irreducibility of ethical concepts to value-neutral concepts (Anthony Price and Sarah Broadie), the relation of virtue to happiness (Roger Crisp and Christopher Rowe, Terry Irwin and Sir Anthony Kenny), the role of the requirement of self-sufficiency in determining the content of happiness (John Cooper and Sir Anthony Kenny), and the question of whether the just man should be a participant in the political life of his city (Richard Kraut and Christopher Rowe).
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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 : Nicholas R. Baima
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781003137726
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (377 download)
Download or read book Plato's Pragmatism written by Nicholas R. Baima and published by . This book was released on 2020-12 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Plato's Pragmatism offers the first comprehensive defense of a pragmatist reading of Plato. According to Plato, the ultimate rational goal is not to accumulate knowledge and avoid falsehood but rather to live an excellent human life. The book contends that a pragmatic outlook is present throughout the Platonic corpus. The authors argue that the successful pursuit of a good life requires cultivating certain ethical commitments, and that maintaining these commitments often requires violating epistemic norms. In the course of defending the pragmatist interpretation, the authors present a forceful Platonic argument for the conclusion that the value of truth has its limits, and that what matters most are one's ethical commitments and the courage to live up to them. Their interpretation has far-reaching consequences in that it reshapes how we understand the relationship between Plato's ethics and epistemology. Plato's Pragmatism will appeal to scholars and advanced students of Plato and ancient philosophy. It will also be of interest to those working on current controversies in ethics and epistemology"--
Author : James Martineau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1178 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Types of Ethical Theory written by James Martineau and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 1178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 : Alan Donagan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226155676
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book The Theory of Morality written by Alan Donagan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Let us . . . nominate this the most important theoretical work on ethical or moral theory since John Rawls's Theory of Justice. If you have philosophical inclinations and want a good workout, this conscientious scrutiny of moral assumptions and expressions will be most rewarding. Donagan explores ways of acting in the Hebrew-Christian context, examines them in the light of natural law and rational theories, and proposes that formal patterns for conduct can emerge. All this is tightly reasoned, the argument is packed, but the language is clear."—Christian Century "The man value of this book seems to me to be that it shows the force of the Hebrew-Christian moral tradition in the hands of a creative philosopher. Throughout the book, one cannot but feel that a serious philosopher is trying to come to terms with his religious-moral background and to defend it against the prevailing secular utilitarian position which seems to dominate academic philosophy."—Bernard Gert, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy
