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Author : George Tucker
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)
Download or read book Essays, Moral and Metaphysical written by George Tucker and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Stacey Taylor
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199751137
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book The Metaphysics and Ethics of Death written by James Stacey Taylor and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Metaphysics and Ethics of Death brings together original essays that both address the fundamental questions of the metaphysics of death and explore the relationship between those questions and some of the areas of applied ethics in which they play a central role.
Author : John Jamieson Carswell Smart
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Essays Metaphysical and Moral written by John Jamieson Carswell Smart and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1987 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (133 download)
Download or read book Essays Metaphysical and Moral written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Franklin I. Gamwell
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 143847931X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book On Metaphysical Necessity written by Franklin I. Gamwell and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of essays, Franklin I. Gamwell offers a defense of transcendental metaphysics, especially in its neoclassical form, and builds a case for its importance as a tool for addressing abiding problems in philosophical theology and morality—including talk about God, human fault, moral decision, and the relationship of politics and religious freedom. In Part I, Gamwell argues against Kant and a wide range of contemporary philosophers, for the validity of transcendental metaphysics designated in the strict sense. He engages with Aquinas, Schleiermacher, Augustine, and Reinhold Niebuhr to argue that neoclassical metaphysics, for which the divine whole is itself temporal or forever self-surpassing, provides a more coherent account of God than does classical metaphysics, for which the divine whole is completely eternal. In Part II, Gamwell looks at transcendental metaphysics designated in the broad sense. In particular, he takes up the moral opportunity with which humans are presented, and argues that the moral law depends on a comprehensive good, that is, a good defined metaphysically in the strict sense. He then offers an extended discussion of the relation between transcendental metaphysics and morality, and explores Ronald Dworkin's view of the relationship between democracy and religion, the question of whether religious activities are properly exempted from generally applicable laws, and the constitutional debate about national and states' rights.
Author : John F. Post
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Faces of Existence written by John F. Post and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John F. Post argues that physicalistic materialism is compatible with a number of views often deemed incompatible with it, such as the objectivity of values, the irreducibility of subjective experience, the power of the metaphor, the normativity of meaning, and even theism.
Author : Michael S. Moore
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199599513
Total Pages : 635 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Causation and Responsibility written by Michael S. Moore and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of causation is fundamental to ascribing moral and legal responsibility for events. Yet the relationship between causation and responsibility remains unclear. What precisely is the connection between the concept of causation used in attributing responsibility and the accounts of causal relations offered in the philosophy of science and metaphysics? How much of what we call causal responsibility is in truth defined by non-causal factors? This book argues that much of thelegal doctrine on these questions is confused and incoherent, and offers the first comprehensive attempt since Hart and Honoré to clarify the philosophical background to the legal and moral debates.The book first sets out the place of causation in criminal and tort law and outlines the metaphysics presupposed by the legal doctrine. It then analyses the best theoretical accounts of causation in the philosophy of science and metaphysics, and using these accounts criticises many of the core legal concepts surrounding causation - such as intervening causation, forseeability of harm and complicity. It considers and rejects the radical proposals to eliminate the notion of causation from law byusing risk analysis to attribute responsibility. The result of the analysis is a powerful argument for revising our understanding of the role played by causation in the attribution of legal and moral responsibility.
Author : Timothy L. S. Sprigge
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Importance of Subjectivity written by Timothy L. S. Sprigge and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2011-01-13 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timothy Sprigge was one of the leading exponents of philosophical idealism in the last fifty years. The idealist worldview, long unfashionable, has been coming back into favour, and Sprigge's work has found a new readership. These selected essays focus on the view of consciousness on which his unique system of metaphysics and ethics is based.
Author : James Stacey Taylor
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019931554X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)
Download or read book The Metaphysics and Ethics of Death written by James Stacey Taylor and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The questions that surround death--Is death a harm to the person who dies? Should we be afraid of death? Can the dead be harmed? Can they be wronged?--have been of widespread interest since Classical times. This interest is currently enjoying a renaissance across a broad spectrum of philosophical fields, ranging from metaphysics to bioethics. This volume is the first to bring together original essays that both address the fundamental questions of the metaphysics of death and explore the relationship between those questions and some of the areas of applied ethics in which they play a central role. The essays in Part I of this volume examine some of the Classical approaches to fundamental metaphysical questions surrounding death, addressing in particular the question of whether a person's death can be a harm to her. The theme of the value of death is continued in Part II, with essays addressing this issue through a more contemporary lens. The essays in Part III address the related but separate issue of whether persons can be harmed by events that occur after they die. Finally, the essays in Part IV apply the metaphysical issues addressed in Parts I through III to various issues in bioethics, including the question of posthumous organ procurement, suicide, and survival after brain injury. Written by some of the most prominent philosophers working on these issues today, the essays in this volume showcase the state of the art of both the metaphysics of death and its importance to many areas of applied ethics.
Author : H. L. Dyke
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401735301
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Time and Ethics written by H. L. Dyke and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a pressing need for an investigation into how time and ethics impact on each other. This book leads the way in addressing that need. The essays in this collection raise and investigate some of the key issues that arise at the intersection between these two areas of philosophy. It is for undergraduates, postgraduates and professional philosophers.
Author : Mark Timmons
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019825010X
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (982 download)
Download or read book Kant's Metaphysics of Morals written by Mark Timmons and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kant's last major works on ethics, The Metaphysics of Morals has become a focus of recent scholarship. This volume draws together a selection of the most interesting current work by leading scholars.
Author : George Tucker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781404798397
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (983 download)
Download or read book Essays written by George Tucker and published by . This book was released on 1860-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Guyer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0585080720
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals written by Paul Guyer and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals is one of the most important works in modern moral philosophy. This collection of essays, the first of its kind in nearly thirty years, introduces the reader to some of the most important studies of the book from the past two decades, arranged in the form of a collective commentary.
Author : Abraham Joshua Heschel
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780374524951
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (249 download)
Download or read book Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity written by Abraham Joshua Heschel and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1997-05-16 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers essays by the Jewish scholar, activist, and theologian about Judaism, Jewish heritage, social justice, ecumenism, faith, and prayer.
Author : Peter Singer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191084395
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Does Anything Really Matter? written by Peter Singer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first two volumes of On What Matters Derek Parfit argues that there are objective moral truths, and other normative truths about what we have reasons to believe, and to want, and to do. He thus challenges a view of the role of reason in action that can be traced back to David Hume, and is widely assumed to be correct, not only by philosophers but also by economists. In defending his view, Parfit argues that if there are no objective normative truths, nihilism follows, and nothing matters. He criticizes, often forcefully, many leading contemporary philosophers working on the nature of ethics, including Simon Blackburn, Stephen Darwall, Allen Gibbard, Frank Jackson, Peter Railton, Mark Schroeder, Michael Smith, and Sharon Street. Does Anything Really Matter? gives these philosophers an opportunity to respond to Parfit's criticisms, and includes essays on Parfit's views by Richard Chappell, Andrew Huddleston, Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Singer, Bruce Russell, and Larry Temkin. A third volume of On What Matters, in which Parfit engages with his critics and breaks new ground in finding significant agreement between his own views and theirs, is appearing as a separate companion volume.
Author : John Deigh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190878614
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book From Psychology to Morality written by John Deigh and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this collection belong to the tradition of naturalism in ethics. The tradition goes back to the beginnings of moral philosophy in ancient Greek thought. Its program is to explain moral thought and action as wholly natural phenomena. Its aim, in other words, is to explain such thought and action without recourse to either a reality separate from that of the natural world or volitional powers that operate independently of natural forces. Its greatest exponent in ancient thought was Aristotle. In modern thought Hume and Freud stand out as the most influential contributors to the tradition. All three thinkers made the study of human psychology fundamental to their work in ethics. All three built their theories on studies of human desires and emotions and assigned to reason the role of guiding the actions that spring from our desires and emotions toward ends that promise self-fulfillment and away from ends that are self-destructive. The collection's essays draw inspiration from their ideas. Its twelve principal essays are arranged to follow the lead of Aristotle's and Hume's ethics. The first three survey and examine general theories of emotion and motivation. The next two focus on emotions that are central to human sociability and that contemporary Anglo-American philosophers discuss under the rubric of reactive attitudes. Turning to distinctively cognitive powers necessary for moral thought and action, the sixth and seventh essays discuss the role of empathy in moral judgment and defend Bernard Williams's controversial account of practical reason. The final five essays use the studies in moral psychology of the previous chapters to treat questions in ethics and social philosophy. The treatment of these questions exemplifies the implementation of a naturalist program in these disciplines.
Author : John Martin Fischer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195374959
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Our Stories written by John Martin Fischer and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2009 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of essays on the metaphysical issues pertaining to death, the meaning of life, and freedom of the will, John Martin Fischer argues (against the Epicureans) that death can be a bad thing for the individual who dies. He defends the claim that something can be a bad thing--a misfortune--for an individual, even if he never experiences it as bad (and even if he does not any longer exist). Fischer also defends the commonsense asymmetry in our attitudes toward death and prenatal nonexistence: we are indifferent to the time before we are born, but we regret that we do not live longer. Further, Fischer argues (against the immortality curmudgeons, such as Heidegger and Bernard Williams), that immortal life could be desirable, and shows how the defense of the (possible) badness of death and the (possible) goodness of immortality exhibit a similar structure; on Fischer's view, the badness of death and the goodness of life can be represented on spectra that display certain continuities. Building on Fischer's previous book, My Way a major aim of this volume is to show important connections between issues relating to life and death and issues relating to free will. More specifically, Fischer argues that we endow our lives with a certain distinctive kind of meaning--an irreducible narrative dimension of value--by exhibiting free will. Thus, in acting freely, we transform our lives so that our stories matter.
