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Rethinking Philosophers' Responsibility

Author : Lydia Amir
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527505251
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Philosophers' Responsibility written by Lydia Amir and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calling on philosophers as the custodians of rationality to reconsider their responsibility toward their communities and the state of civilization at large, this book considers philosophy to be a practical discipline. Largely foreign to philosophers and non-philosophers alike, this conception of philosophy discloses the relevance of its unique contributions to contemporary society. The book offers a compelling and accessible analysis of philosophy also in relation to religion, psychology, the New Age Movement, and globalization, and exemplifies through a wide range of current problems how philosophers can fulfil their responsibility. Its argument that responsibility lies where one is capable of doing what is needed, and even more so, when no one else can do it, targets philosophers. However, its innovative study of contemporary philosophy coupled with its original contributions to the problems at hand will engage academics and students from other disciplines, as well as a general readership.

Rethinking Responsibility

Author : K. E. Boxer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199695326
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Responsibility written by K. E. Boxer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-07 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: K. E. Boxer explores moral responsibility, and whether it is compatible with causal determinism. She suggests that to answer this question we must focus on responsibility in the sense of liability, and that an incompatibilist view may only be preserved on an understanding of the moral desert of punishment that many find morally problematic.

The Limits of Blame

Author : Erin I. Kelly
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674980778
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book The Limits of Blame written by Erin I. Kelly and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-12 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faith in the power and righteousness of retribution has taken over the American criminal justice system. Approaching punishment and responsibility from a philosophical perspective, Erin Kelly challenges the moralism behind harsh treatment of criminal offenders and calls into question our society’s commitment to mass incarceration. The Limits of Blame takes issue with a criminal justice system that aligns legal criteria of guilt with moral criteria of blameworthiness. Many incarcerated people do not meet the criteria of blameworthiness, even when they are guilty of crimes. Kelly underscores the problems of exaggerating what criminal guilt indicates, particularly when it is tied to the illusion that we know how long and in what ways criminals should suffer. Our practice of assigning blame has gone beyond a pragmatic need for protection and a moral need to repudiate harmful acts publicly. It represents a desire for retribution that normalizes excessive punishment. Appreciating the limits of moral blame critically undermines a commonplace rationale for long and brutal punishment practices. Kelly proposes that we abandon our culture of blame and aim at reducing serious crime rather than imposing retribution. Were we to refocus our perspective to fit the relevant moral circumstances and legal criteria, we could endorse a humane, appropriately limited, and more productive approach to criminal justice.

Philosophy of Management and Sustainability

Author : Jacob Dahl Rendtorff
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178973455X
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (897 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy of Management and Sustainability written by Jacob Dahl Rendtorff and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-30 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using an interdisciplinary focus, this book combines the research disciplines of philosophy, business management and sustainability to aid and advance scholar and practitioner understanding of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Philosophy of Nature

Author : Svein Anders Noer Lie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317645952
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy of Nature written by Svein Anders Noer Lie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-22 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of naturalness has largely disappeared from the academic discourse in general but also the particular field of environmental studies. This book is about naturalness in general – about why the idea of naturalness has been abandoned in modern academic discourse, why it is important to explicitly re-establish some meaning for the concept and what that meaning ought to be. Arguing that naturalness can and should be understood in light of a dispositional ontology, the book offers a point of view where the gap between instrumental and ethical perspectives can be bridged. Reaching a new foundation for the concept of ‘naturalness’ and its viability will help raise and inform further discussions within environmental philosophy and issues occurring in the crossroads between science, technology and society. This topical book will be of great interest to researchers and students in Environmental Studies, Environmental Philosophy, Science and Technology Studies, Conservation Studies as well as all those generally engaged in debates about the place of ‘man in nature’.

Rethinking Inclusive Education: The Philosophers of Difference in Practice

Author : Julie Allan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402060939
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Inclusive Education: The Philosophers of Difference in Practice written by Julie Allan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-11-07 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Warnock, the so-called ‘architect’ of inclusion now pronouncing this her ‘big mistake’ and calling for a return to special schooling, inclusion appears to be under threat as never before. This book takes key ideas of the philosophers of difference – Deleuze, Foucault and Derrida – and puts them to work on inclusion. The book offers new challenges for those involved with education to invent new ways of tackling the ‘problem’ of inclusion.

The Origins of Responsibility

Author : François Raffoul
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253221730
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book The Origins of Responsibility written by François Raffoul and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-13 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: François Raffoul approaches the concept of responsibility in a manner that is distinct from its traditional interpretation as accountability of the willful subject. Exploring responsibility in the works of Nietzsche, Sartre, Levinas, Heidegger, and Derrida, Raffoul identifies decisive moments in the development of the concept, retrieves its origins, and explores new reflections on it. For Raffoul, responsibility is less about a sovereign subject establishing a sphere of power and control than about exposure to an event that does not come from us and yet calls to us. These original and thoughtful investigations of the post-metaphysical senses of responsibility chart new directions for ethics in the continental tradition.

Unbecoming Subjects

Author : Annika Thiem
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780823248582
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (485 download)

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Download or read book Unbecoming Subjects written by Annika Thiem and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the horrors of the war in Bosnia to develop meaningfully adequate accounts of evil within the context of war crimes and crimes against humanity, this book states that since the foundations of the social are found in human action, evil's assault on these foundations results in the demise of the social.

Meaningful Work

Author : Mike W. Martin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019535091X
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Meaningful Work written by Mike W. Martin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-03-16 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As commonly understood, professional ethics consists of shared duties and episodic dilemmas--the responsibilities incumbent on all members of specific professions joined together with the dilemmas that arise when these responsibilities conflict. Martin challenges this "consensus paradigm" as he rethinks professional ethics to include personal commitments and ideals, of which many are not mandatory. Using specific examples from a wide range of professions, including medicine, law, high school teaching, journalism, engineering, and ministry, he explores how personal commitments motivate, guide, and give meaning to work.

Rethinking Facticity

Author :
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 0791478750
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Facticity written by and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rethinking Order

Author : Nancy Cartwright
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474244084
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Order written by Nancy Cartwright and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a radical new picture of natural order. The Newtonian idea of a cosmos ruled by universal and exceptionless laws has been superseded; replaced by a conception of nature as a realm of diverse powers, potencies, and dispositions, a 'dappled world'. There is order in nature, but it is more local, diverse, piecemeal, open, and emergent than Newton imagined. In each chapter expert authors expound the historical context of the idea of laws of nature, and explore the diverse sorts of order actually presupposed by work in physics, biology, and the social sciences. They consider how human freedom might be understood, and explore how Newton's idea of a 'universal designer' might be revised, in this new context. They argue that there is not one unified totalizing program of science, aiming at the completion of one closed causal system. We live in an ordered universe, but we need to rethink the classical idea of the 'laws of nature' in a more dynamic and creatively diverse way.

Against Individualism

Author : Henry Rosemont
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739199811
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Against Individualism written by Henry Rosemont and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-03-25 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first part of Against Individualism: A Confucian Rethinking of the Foundations of Morality, Politics, Family, and Religion is devoted to showing how and why the vision of human beings as free, independent and autonomous individuals is and always was a mirage that has served liberatory functions in the past, but has now become pernicious for even thinking clearly about, much less achieving social and economic justice, maintaining democracy, or addressing the manifold environmental and other problems facing the world today. In the second and larger part of the book Rosemont proffers a different vision of being human gleaned from the texts of classical Confucianism, namely, that we are first and foremost interrelated and thus interdependent persons whose uniqueness lies in the multiplicity of roles we each live throughout our lives. This leads to an ethics based on those mutual roles in sharp contrast to individualist moralities, but which nevertheless reflect the facts of our everyday lives very well. The book concludes by exploring briefly a number of implications of this vision for thinking differently about politics, family life, justice, and the development of a human-centered authentic religiousness. This book will be of value to all students and scholars of philosophy, political theory, and Religious, Chinese, and Family Studies, as well as everyone interested in the intersection of morality with their everyday and public lives.

Rethinking Life and Death

Author : Peter Singer
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312144012
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Life and Death written by Peter Singer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1996-04-15 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a reassessment of the meaning of life and death, a noted philosopher offers a new definition for life that contrasts a world dependent on biological maintenance with one controlled by state-of-the-art medical technology.

Moral Responsibility beyond Our Fingertips

Author : Eugene Schlossberger
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793633584
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Moral Responsibility beyond Our Fingertips written by Eugene Schlossberger and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-03-03 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is Trump responsible for the January 6 insurrection? Are “white people” responsible for slavery? In Moral Responsibility beyond Our Fingertips: Collective Responsibility, Leaders, and Attributionism, Eugene Schlossberger expands, updates, and argues for the attributionist account of moral responsibility and agency and applies it to several pressing contemporary concerns: leaders’ responsibility for their followers' acts (and ordinary persons’ responsibility for their influence on others), collective responsibility, addiction, and responsibility for what we would have done. Moral agents are continuing worldviews in operation who are ultimately responsible for their worldviews and occasion-responsible for acts, events, and circumstances that occasion a judgment of responsibility. Agents can be responsible for many things beyond their fingertips—such as others' behavior that they enabled—that reveal something about their worldviews. The wide-ranging discussion addresses the responsibility of psychopaths; the nature of beliefs and desires; social convergence theory; twelve forms of subjectability (such as blame and owing an apology); queerness and moral internalism; the beneficiary pays principle; and much more. The result is a comprehensive picture of agency and responsibility.

Chance, Merit, and Economic Inequality

Author : Joseph de la Torre Dwyer
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030211266
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Chance, Merit, and Economic Inequality written by Joseph de la Torre Dwyer and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-09-11 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops a novel approach to distributive justice by building a theory based on a concept of desert. As a work of applied political theory, it presents a simple but powerful theoretical argument and a detailed proposal to eliminate unmerited inequality, poverty, and economic immobility, speaking to the underlying moral principles of both progressives who already support egalitarian measures and also conservatives who have previously rejected egalitarianism on the grounds of individual freedom, personal responsibility, hard work, or economic efficiency. By using an agnostic, flexible, data-driven approach to isolate luck and ultimately measure desert, this proposal makes equal opportunity initiatives both more accurate and effective as it adapts to a changing economy. It grants to each individual the freedom to genuinely choose their place in the distribution. It provides two policy variations that are perfectly economically efficient, and two others that are conditionally so. It straightforwardly aligns outcomes with widely shared, fundamental moral intuitions. Lastly, it demonstrates much of the above by modeling four policy variations using 40 years of survey data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics.

Friendship and Moral Education

Author : Ronald F. Reed
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Friendship and Moral Education written by Ronald F. Reed and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friendship and Moral Education introduces both educators and philosophers to a unique, international blend of philosophy, education, and children. Philosophy for Children has often been touted as a critical thinking skills program, but it is much, much more. By tracing the roots of Philosophy for Children and by explaining its emergence in the social, philosophical, and educational context of the second half of the twentieth century, the authors tease out how and why Philosophy for Children is grounded in the ideals of moral education and friendship.

Debating Moral Education

Author : Elizabeth Kiss
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822391597
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Debating Moral Education written by Elizabeth Kiss and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-25 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After decades of marginalization in the secularized twentieth-century academy, moral education has enjoyed a recent resurgence in American higher education, with the establishment of more than 100 ethics centers and programs on campuses across the country. Yet the idea that the university has a civic responsibility to teach its undergraduate students ethics and morality has been met with skepticism, suspicion, and even outright rejection from both inside and outside the academy. In this collection, renowned scholars of philosophy, politics, and religion debate the role of ethics in the university, investigating whether universities should proactively cultivate morality and ethics, what teaching ethics entails, and what moral education should accomplish. The essays quickly open up to broader questions regarding the very purpose of a university education in modern society. Editors Elizabeth Kiss and J. Peter Euben survey the history of ethics in higher education, then engage with provocative recent writings by Stanley Fish in which he argues that universities should not be involved in moral education. Stanley Hauerwas responds, offering a theological perspective on the university’s purpose. Contributors look at the place of politics in moral education; suggest that increasingly diverse, multicultural student bodies are resources for the teaching of ethics; and show how the debate over civic education in public grade-schools provides valuable lessons for higher education. Others reflect on the virtues and character traits that a moral education should foster in students—such as honesty, tolerance, and integrity—and the ways that ethical training formally and informally happens on campuses today, from the classroom to the basketball court. Debating Moral Education is a critical contribution to the ongoing discussion of the role and evolution of ethics education in the modern liberal arts university. Contributors. Lawrence Blum, Romand Coles, J. Peter Euben, Stanley Fish, Michael Allen Gillespie, Ruth W. Grant, Stanley Hauerwas, David A. Hoekema, Elizabeth Kiss, Patchen Markell, Susan Jane McWilliams, Wilson Carey McWilliams, J. Donald Moon, James Bernard Murphy, Noah Pickus, Julie A. Reuben, George Shulman, Elizabeth V. Spelman