Rationality, Virtue, and Liberation

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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3319022857
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)

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Book Synopsis Rationality, Virtue, and Liberation by : Stephen Petro

Download or read book Rationality, Virtue, and Liberation written by Stephen Petro and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the overlooked but vital theoretical relationships between R. M. Hare, Alan Gewirth, and Jürgen Habermas. The author claims their accounts of value, while failing to address classic virtue-theoretical critiques, bear the seeds of a resolution to the ultimate question “What is most valuable?” These dialectical approaches, as claimed, justify a reinterpretation of value and value judgment according to the Carnapian conception of an empirical-linguistic framework or grammar. Through a further synthesis with the work of Philippa Foot and Thomas Magnell, the author shows that “value” would be literally meaningless without four fundamental phenomena which constitute such a framework: Logical Judgment, Conceptual Synthesis, Conceptual Abstraction, and Freedom. As part of the 'grammar of goodness,' the excellence of these phenomena, in a highly concrete way, constitute the essence of the greatest good, as this book explains.

After Virtue

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Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1623569818
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (235 download)

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Book Synopsis After Virtue by : Alasdair MacIntyre

Download or read book After Virtue written by Alasdair MacIntyre and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-10-21 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highly controversial when it was first published in 1981, Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue has since established itself as a landmark work in contemporary moral philosophy. In this book, MacIntyre sought to address a crisis in moral language that he traced back to a European Enlightenment that had made the formulation of moral principles increasingly difficult. In the search for a way out of this impasse, MacIntyre returns to an earlier strand of ethical thinking, that of Aristotle, who emphasised the importance of 'virtue' to the ethical life. More than thirty years after its original publication, After Virtue remains a work that is impossible to ignore for anyone interested in our understanding of ethics and morality today.

Dependent Rational Animals

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Publisher : Open Court Publishing
ISBN 13 : 081269452X
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (126 download)

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Book Synopsis Dependent Rational Animals by : Alasdair C. MacIntyre

Download or read book Dependent Rational Animals written by Alasdair C. MacIntyre and published by Open Court Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Dependent Rational Animals, Alasdair MacIntyre compares humans to other intelligent animals, ultimately drawing remarkable conclusions about human social life and our treatment of those whom he argues we should no longer call "disabled." MacIntyre argues that human beings are independent, practical reasoners, but they are also dependent animals who must learn from each other in order to remain largely independent. To flourish, humans must acknowledge the importance of dependence and independence, both of which are developed in and through social relationships. This requires the development of a local community in which individuals discover their own "goods" through the discovery of a common Good.

From Rationality to Liberation

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Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
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Book Synopsis From Rationality to Liberation by : J. A. Sabrosky

Download or read book From Rationality to Liberation written by J. A. Sabrosky and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1979 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents include: Adagio, from Sonata in C Major, Op. 1, No. 2 (Francesco Barsanti), When Daphne the Most Beautiful Maiden (Doen Daphne d'over schoone Maeght) (Jacob van Eyck), Grav,e, from Concerto in F Major (Antonio Vivaldi), Affetuoso, from Sonata in D Minor (Georg Philipp Telemann), Air a L'Italien, from Suite in a Minor (Georg Philipp Telemann), Adagio ma non tanto, from Sonata in F Major, BWV 1035 (Johann Sebastian Bach), Allegro, from Sonata in F Major, BWV 1035 (Johann Sebastian Bach)

Liberation in the Face of Uncertainty

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108844405
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Book Synopsis Liberation in the Face of Uncertainty by : Hubert J. M. Hermans

Download or read book Liberation in the Face of Uncertainty written by Hubert J. M. Hermans and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses Dialogical Self Theory to respond to the challenges of climate change, well-being, and disenchantment of the world.

Rationality and Happiness

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Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9781580461306
Total Pages : 274 pages
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Book Synopsis Rationality and Happiness by : Jiyuan Yu

Download or read book Rationality and Happiness written by Jiyuan Yu and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2003 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the relationship between rationality and happiness from ancient Greek philosophy to early Latin medieval philosophy. What connection is there between human rationality and happiness? This issue was uppermost in the minds of the Ancient Greek philosophers and continued to be of importance during the entire early medieval period. Starting with theSocrates of Plato's early dialogues, who is regarded as having initiated the eudaimonistic ethical tradition, the present volume looks at Plato, Aristotle, the Skeptics, Seneca [Stoicism], Epicurus, Plotinus [neo-Platonism], Augustine, Boethius, Anselm, and ends with Abelard, the final major figure in early medieval philosophy. Special efforts are made to reveal and trace the continuity and development of the views on rationality and happiness among these major thinkers within this period. The book's approach is historical, but the topics it treats are relevant to many discussions pursued in contemporary philosophical circles. Specifically, the book aims to make two major contributions to the ongoing development of virtue ethics. First, contemporary virtue ethics often draws distinctions between ancient Greek ethics and modern moral philosophy [mainly utilitarianism and Kantianism], and seeks to model ethics on ancient ethics. In doing so, however, contemporary virtue ethics often ignores the transition from Greek ethics to the early Latin medieval tradition. Second, contemporary virtue-based ethics, in its efforts to seek insights from ancient ethics, centers on virtue. In contrast, in ancient and medieval ethics, virtue is pursued for the sake of happiness [eudaimonia], and virtue is conceived as excellence of rationality. Hence, the relationship between rationality and happiness provides the framework for ethical inquiry within which the discussion of virtue takes place. Contributors: JULIA ANNAS, RICHARD BETT, JORGE J.E. GRACIA, BRAD INWOOD, WILLIAM MANN, JOHN MARENBON, GARETH B. MATTHEWS, MARK L. McPHERRAN, DONALD MORRISON, C.C.W. TAYLOR, JONATHAN SANFORD, JIYUAN YU. Jiyuan Yu is Assistant Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Jorge J. E. Gracia is Samuel P. Capen Chair and SUNY Distinguised Professor in the Departments of Philosophy and Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

The Cambridge Companion to Christian Ethics

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107000076
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Christian Ethics by : Robin Gill

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Christian Ethics written by Robin Gill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty essays providing an authoritative introduction to Christian ethics, addressing issues such as war, social justice, ecology, sexuality and medicine.

Whose Justice? Which Rationality?

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Whose Justice? Which Rationality? by : Alasdair C. MacIntyre

Download or read book Whose Justice? Which Rationality? written by Alasdair C. MacIntyre and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 1988 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there any cause or war worth risking one's life for? How can we determine which actions are vices and which virtues? MacIntyre, professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt University, unravels these and other such questions by linking the concept of justice to what he calls practical rationality. He rejects the grab-what-you-can, utilitarian yardstick adopted by moral relativists. Instead, he argues that four wholly different, incompatible ideas of justice put forth by Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas and Hume have helped shape our modern individualistic world. In his unorthodox view, each person seeks the good through an ongoing dialogue with one of these traditions or within Jewish, non-Western or other historical traditions. This weighty sequel to After Virtue (1981) is certain to stir debate.

Tradition, Rationality, and Virtue

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351878298
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Book Synopsis Tradition, Rationality, and Virtue by : Thomas D. D'Andrea

Download or read book Tradition, Rationality, and Virtue written by Thomas D. D'Andrea and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tradition, Rationality, and Virtue provides the first comprehensive and detailed treatment of the work of Alasdair MacIntyre. In this book Thomas D'Andrea presents an accessible critical study of the full range of MacIntyre's thought across ethical theory, psychoanalytic theory, social and political philosophy, Marxist theory, and the philosophy of religion. Moving from the roots of MacIntyre's thought in ethical inquiry, this book examines MacIntyre's treatment of Marx, Christianity, and the nature of human action and discusses in depth the development and applications of MacIntyre's After Virtue project. The book culminates in an examination of major internal and external criticisms of MacIntyre's work and a consideration of its future directions.

Liberation

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 554 pages
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Download or read book Liberation written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Commonsense Consequentialism

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Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0199794537
Total Pages : 287 pages
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Book Synopsis Commonsense Consequentialism by : Douglas W. Portmore

Download or read book Commonsense Consequentialism written by Douglas W. Portmore and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2011-11-02 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about morality, rationality, and the interconnections between the two. In it, Portmore defends a version of consequentialism that both comports with our commonsense moral intuitions and shares with consequentialist theories the same compelling teleological conception of practical reasons.

Relationship Morality

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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271043725
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Book Synopsis Relationship Morality by : James Kellenberger

Download or read book Relationship Morality written by James Kellenberger and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reasons Without Rationalism

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691146527
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Book Synopsis Reasons Without Rationalism by : Kieran Setiya

Download or read book Reasons Without Rationalism written by Kieran Setiya and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-21 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern philosophy has been vexed by the question "Why should I be moral?" and by doubts about the rational authority of moral virtue. In Reasons without Rationalism, Kieran Setiya shows that these doubts rest on a mistake. The "should" of practical reason cannot be understood apart from the virtues of character, including such moral virtues as justice and benevolence, and the considerations to which the virtues make one sensitive thereby count as reasons to act. Proposing a new framework for debates about practical reason, Setiya argues that the only alternative to this "virtue theory" is a form of ethical rationalism in which reasons derive from the nature of intentional action. Despite its recent popularity, however, ethical rationalism is false. It wrongly assumes that we act "under the guise of the good," or it relies on dubious views about intention and motivation. It follows from the failure of rationalism that the virtue theory is true: we cannot be fully good without the perfection of practical reason, or have that perfection without being good. Addressing such topics as the psychology of virtue and the explanation of action, Reasons without Rationalism is essential reading for philosophers interested in ethics, rationality, or the philosophy of mind.

The Cultures of Maimonideanism

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004174508
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cultures of Maimonideanism by : James T. Robinson

Download or read book The Cultures of Maimonideanism written by James T. Robinson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the history of Jewish thought, no individual scholar has exercised more influence than Maimonides (1138-1204) philosopher and physician, legal scholar and communal leader. This collection of papers, originating at the 2007 EAJS colloquium, places primary emphasis on this influence not on Maimonides himself but the many movements he inspired. Using Maimonideanism as an interpretive lens, the authors of this volume representing a variety of fields and disciplines develop new approaches to and fresh perspectives on the peculiar dynamic of Judaism and philosophy. Focusing on social and cultural processes as well as philosophical ideas and arguments, they point toward an original reconceptualization of Jewish thought.

Confronting Aristotle's Ethics

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Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459606108
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (596 download)

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Book Synopsis Confronting Aristotle's Ethics by : Eugene Garver

Download or read book Confronting Aristotle's Ethics written by Eugene Garver and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the good life? Posing this question today would likely elicit very different answers. Some might say that the good life means doing good - improving one's community and the lives of others. Others might respond that it means doing well - cultivating one's own abilities in a meaningful way. But for Aristotle these two distinct ideas - doi...

The Virtue of Selfishness

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101137223
Total Pages : 185 pages
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Book Synopsis The Virtue of Selfishness by : Ayn Rand

Download or read book The Virtue of Selfishness written by Ayn Rand and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1964-11-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays that sets forth the moral principles of Objectivism, Ayn Rand's controversial, groundbreaking philosophy. Since their initial publication, Rand's fictional works—Anthem, The Fountainhead, and Atlas Shrugged—have had a major impact on the intellectual scene. The underlying theme of her famous novels is her philosophy, a new morality—the ethics of rational self-interest—that offers a robust challenge to altruist-collectivist thought. Known as Objectivism, her divisive philosophy holds human life—the life proper to a rational being—as the standard of moral values and regards altruism as incompatible with man's nature. In this series of essays, Rand asks why man needs morality in the first place, and arrives at an answer that redefines a new code of ethics based on the virtue of selfishness. More Than 1 Million Copies Sold!

Rationality and the Human Characteristic Way in Hursthouse’s On Virtue Ethics

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Download or read book Rationality and the Human Characteristic Way in Hursthouse’s On Virtue Ethics written by Jordan D. Shonberg and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: