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Author : Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400998333
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Human Being in Action written by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Michael Osborne
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813221781
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)
Download or read book Human Action in Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham written by Thomas Michael Osborne and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sets out a thematic presentation of human action, especially as it relates to morality, in the three most significant figures in Medieval Scholastic thought: Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham
Author : G.E.M. Anscombe
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1845402707
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (454 download)
Download or read book Human Life, Action and Ethics written by G.E.M. Anscombe and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2011-11-18 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays by the celebrated philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe. This collection includes papers on human nature and practical philosophy, together with the classic 'Modern Moral Philosophy'
Author : David Braine
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532672411
Total Pages : 583 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)
Download or read book The Human Person written by David Braine and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A philosophical work that addresses the validity of the question: What is it for the human being to be an animal, and for this animal to be a spirit? Braine argues that the perspectives of materialism and dualism are different casts of the same flawed mold and offers a holistic alternative. Braine further argues that perception is inseparable from behavior and that the human propensity to produce language separates us from other animals. Culminating in a discussion of the meaning of death, this is rich and passionate philosophical argument for the human being as animal and soul.
Author : Frans de Waal
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691169160
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Primates and Philosophers written by Frans de Waal and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can virtuous behavior be explained by nature, and not by human rational choice? "It's the animal in us," we often hear when we've been bad. But why not when we're good? Primates and Philosophers tackles this question by exploring the biological foundations of one of humanity's most valued traits: morality. In this provocative book, renowned primatologist Frans de Waal argues that modern-day evolutionary biology takes far too dim a view of the natural world, emphasizing our "selfish" genes and reinforcing our habit of labeling ethical behavior as humane and the less civilized as animalistic. Seeking the origin of human morality not in evolution but in human culture, science insists that we are moral by choice, not by nature. Citing remarkable evidence based on his extensive research of primate behavior, de Waal attacks "Veneer Theory," which posits morality as a thin overlay on an otherwise nasty nature. He explains how we evolved from a long line of animals that care for the weak and build cooperation with reciprocal transactions. Drawing on Darwin, recent scientific advances, and his extensive research of primate behavior, de Waal demonstrates a strong continuity between human and animal behavior. He probes issues such as anthropomorphism and human responsibilities toward animals. His compelling account of how human morality evolved out of mammalian society will fascinate anyone who has ever wondered about the origins and reach of human goodness. Based on the Tanner Lectures de Waal delivered at Princeton University's Center for Human Values in 2004, Primates and Philosophers includes responses by the philosophers Peter Singer, Christine M. Korsgaard, and Philip Kitcher and the science writer Robert Wright. They press de Waal to clarify the differences between humans and other animals, yielding a lively debate that will fascinate all those who wonder about the origins and reach of human goodness.
Author : William Hazlitt
Publisher : Scholars Facsimiles Ae Reprints
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book An Essay on the Principles of Human Action written by William Hazlitt and published by Scholars Facsimiles Ae Reprints. This book was released on 1969 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Axel Honneth
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521339353
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (393 download)
Download or read book Social Action and Human Nature written by Axel Honneth and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1988 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Ludwig von Mises Institute
ISBN 13 : 1610164318
Total Pages : 953 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Human Action, The Scholar's Edition written by and published by Ludwig von Mises Institute. This book was released on with total page 953 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Yudanin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793620199
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)
Download or read book Animal Choice and Human Freedom written by Michael Yudanin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-09-02 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Animal Choice and Human Freedom: On the Genealogy of Self-Determined Action, Michael Yudanin argues that describing freedom conceptually is impossible without explaining how it can exist in the world. Yudanin develops an account of freedom’s instantiation in biological agents and provides several prerequisites that are necessary for its exercise. He demonstrates that freedom is linked to the form of life and distinguishes between choice in non-verbal animals and human freedom, where the latter is enabled by the development of language and thus possesses a distinct character. Following this descriptive account, Yudanin explores freedom’s evolutionary history, explaining how it developed in the course of the evolution of species.
Author : Hans Joas
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226400419
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Pragmatism and Social Theory written by Hans Joas and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993-03-15 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rising concerns among scholars about the intellectual and cultural foundations of democracy have led to a revival of interest in the American philosophical tradition of pragmatism. In this book, Hans Joas shows how pragmatism can link divergent intellectual efforts to understand the social contexts of human knowledge, individual freedom, and democratic culture. Along with pragmatism's impact on American sociology and social research from 1895 to the 1940s, Joas traces its reception by French and German traditions during this century. He explores the influences of pragmatism—often misunderstood—on Emile Durkheim's sociology of knowledge, and on German thought, with particularly enlightening references to its appropriation by Nazism and its rejection by neo-Marxism. He also explores new currents of social theory in the work of Habermas, Castoriadis, Giddens, and Alexander, fashioning a bridge between Continental thought, American philosophy, and contemporary sociology; he shows how the misapprehension and neglect of pragmatism has led to systematic deficiencies in contemporary social theory. From this skillful historical and theoretical analysis, Joas creates a powerful case for the enduring legacy of Peirce, James, Dewey, and Mead for social theorists today.
Author : Alvin I. Goldman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400868971
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Theory of Human Action written by Alvin I. Goldman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book articulates an original scheme for the conceptualization of action. Beginning with a new approach to the individuation of acts, it delineates the relationships between basic and non-basic acts and uses these relationships in the definition of ability and intentional action. The author exhibits the central role of wants and beliefs in the causation of acts and in the analysis of the concept of action. Professor Goldman suggests answers to fundamental questions about acts, and develops a set of ideas and principles that can be used in the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of language, ethics, and other fields, including the behavioral sciences. Originally published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Heikki Ikäheimo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000605809
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Recognition and the Human Life-Form written by Heikki Ikäheimo and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is recognition and why is it so important? This book develops a synoptic conception of the significance of recognition in its many forms for human persons by means of a rational reconstruction and internal critique of classical and contemporary accounts. The book begins with a clarification of several fundamental questions concerning recognition. It then reconstructs the core ideas of Fichte, Hegel, Taylor, Fraser, and Honneth and utilizes the insights and conceptual tools developed across these chapters for developing a case for the universal importance of recognition for humans. It argues in favour of a universalist anthropological position, unusual in the literature on recognition, that aims to construe a philosophically sound basis for a discourse of common humanity, or of a shared human life-form for which moral relations of recognition are essential. This synthetic conception of the importance of recognition provides tools for articulating deep intuitions shared across cultures about what makes human life and forms of human co-existence better or worse, and thus tools for mutual understanding about the deepest shared concerns of humanity, or of what makes us all human persons despite our differences. Recognition and the Human Life-Form will appeal to readers interested in philosophical anthropology, social and political philosophy, critical theory, and the history of philosophy. It also provides ideas and conceptual tools for fields such as anthropology, education, disability studies, international relations, law, politics, religious studies, sociology, and social research. Chapter 5 of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
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Publisher : Ludwig von Mises Institute
ISBN 13 : 1610164326
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Human Action Study Guide written by and published by Ludwig von Mises Institute. This book was released on with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Allen Buchanan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199797994
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Better than Human written by Allen Buchanan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it right to use biomedical technologies to make us better than well or even perhaps better than human? Should we view our biology as fixed or should we try to improve on it? College students are already taking cognitive enhancement drugs. The U.S. army is already working to develop drugs and technologies to produce "super soldiers." Scientists already know how to use genetic engineering techniques to enhance the strength and memories of mice and the application of such technologies to humans is on the horizon. In Better Than Human, philosopher-bioethicist Allen Buchanan grapples with the ethical dilemmas of the biomedical enhancement revolution. Biomedical enhancements can make us smarter, have better memories, be stronger, quicker, have more stamina, live much longer, avoid the frailties of aging, and enjoy richer emotional lives. In spite of the benefits that biomedical enhancements may bring, many people instinctively reject them. Some worry that we will lose something important-our appreciation for what we have or what makes human beings distinctively valuable. Others assume that biomedical enhancements will only be available to the rich, with the result that social inequalities will worsen. Buchanan shows that the debate over enhancement has been distorted by false assumptions and misleading rhetoric. To think clearly about enhancement, we have to acknowledge that human nature is a mixed bag and that our species has many "design flaws." We should be open be open to the possibility of becoming better than human, while never underestimating the risks that our attempts to improve may back-fire.
Author : Ludwig Von Mises
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781684226061
Total Pages : 908 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Human Action written by Ludwig Von Mises and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-08 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2021 Hardcover Reprint of the 1949 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. "Human Action: A Treatise on Economics" is the first comprehensive treatise on economics written by a leading member of the modern Austrian school of economics. Von Mises' contribution was very simple, yet at the same time extremely profound: he pointed out that the whole economy is the result of what individuals do. Individuals act, choose, cooperate, compete, and trade with one another. In this way Mises explained how complex market phenomena develop. Mises did not simply describe economic phenomena - prices, wages, interest rates, money, monopoly and even the trade cycle - he explained them as the outcomes of countless conscious, purposeful actions, choices, and preferences of individuals, each of whom was trying as best as he or she could under the circumstances to attain various wants and ends and to avoid undesired consequences. Hence the title Mises chose for his economic treatise, "Human Action."
Author : Patrick R. Frierson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107032652
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Kant's Empirical Psychology written by Patrick R. Frierson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first English-language book to examine Kant's empirical psychology, applying it throughout Kant's philosophy and to contemporary philosophical issues.
Author : Alice Koubová
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004255001
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Self-Identity and Powerlessness written by Alice Koubová and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Self-Identity and Powerlessness, Alice Koubová proposes a conception of human existence that does not essentially depend on the definition of self-identity. The author shows that the philosophical stress on human identity fails to grasp essential aspects of human existence. By emphasizing the moments of Dasein’s powerlessness in Heidegger’s fundamental ontology, she develops — in her analysis of various philosophers, literary examples, and social psychology —an original phenomenology of alternation of existence and affair. How necessary is identity for thinking? Are we capable of philosophical thought even when we have neither ourselves, nor the world under our full control? Is it possible to relax, become powerless, and yet think precisely? These questions are to be answered in this book.
