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Moral Motivation

Author : Iakovos Vasiliou
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190610913
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Moral Motivation written by Iakovos Vasiliou and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-27 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moral Motivation presents a history of the concept of moral motivation. The book consists of ten chapters by eminent scholars in the history of philosophy, covering Plato, Aristotle, later Peripatetic philosophy, medieval philosophy, Spinoza, Locke, Hume, Kant, Fichte and Hegel, and the consequentialist tradition. In addition, four interdisciplinary "Reflections" discuss how the topic of moral motivation arises in epic poetry, Cicero, early opera, and Theodore Dreiser. Most contemporary philosophical discussions of moral motivation focus on whether and how moral beliefs by themselves motivate an agent (at least to some degree) to act. In much of the history of the concept, especially before Hume, the focus is rather on how to motivate people to act morally as well as on what sort of motivation a person must act from (or what end an agents acts for) in order to be a genuinely ethical person or even to have done a genuinely ethical action. The book shows the complexity of the historical treatment of moral motivation and, moreover, how intertwined moral motivation is with central aspects of ethical theory.

Perception, Sensibility, and Moral Motivation in Augustine

Author : Sarah Catherine Byers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107017947
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Perception, Sensibility, and Moral Motivation in Augustine written by Sarah Catherine Byers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perception and the language of the mind -- Motivation -- Emotions -- Preliminary passions -- Progress in joy: preliminaries to good emotions -- Cognitive therapies -- Inspiration.

Kant's Theory Of Moral Motivation

Author : Daniel Guevara
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429723938
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Kant's Theory Of Moral Motivation written by Daniel Guevara and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an account of Kant's theory of moral motivation that comprehends the most challenging and controversial aspects of Kant's theory of the will and human moral motivational psychology. It argues for a new approach to the question about the purity of the Kantian moral motive.

Morals from Motives

Author : Michael Slote
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190207930
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Morals from Motives written by Michael Slote and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-02-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morals from Motives develops a virtue ethics inspired more by Hume and Hutcheson's moral sentimentalism than by recently-influential Aristotelianism. It argues that a reconfigured and expanded "morality of caring" can offer a general account of right and wrong action as well as social justice. Expanding the frontiers of ethics, it goes on to show how a motive-based "pure" virtue theory can also help us to understand the nature of human well-being and practical reason.

Handbook of Moral Motivation

Author : Karin Heinrichs
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9462092753
Total Pages : 651 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Moral Motivation written by Karin Heinrichs and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-12 with total page 651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Moral Motivation offers a contemporary and comprehensive appraisal of the age-old question about motivation to do the good and to prevent the bad. From a research point of view, this question remains open even though we present here a rich collection of new ideas and data. Two sources helped the editors to frame the chapters: first they looked at an overwhelmingly fruitful research tradition on motivation in general (attribution theory, performance theory, self-determination theory, etc.) in relationship to morality. The second source refers to the tension between moral judgment (feelings, beliefs) and the real moral act in a twofold manner: (a) as a necessary duty, and, (b) as a social but not necessary bond. In addition, the handbook utilizes the latest research from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, wishing to suggest by this that the answer to the posed question will likely not come from one discipline alone. Furthermore, our hope is that the implicit criticism that the narrowly constructed research approach of the recent past has contributed to closing off rather than opening up interdisciplinary lines of research becomes in this volume a strong counter discourse. The editors and authors of the handbook commend the research contained within in the hope that it will contribute to better understanding of humanity as an inherently moral species.

Motivational Internalism

Author : Gunnar Björnsson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199367957
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Motivational Internalism written by Gunnar Björnsson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In thirteen new essays and an introduction, Motivational Internalism collects a structured overview of current debates about motivational internalism and examines the nature of and evidence for forms of internalism, internalism's relevance for moral psychology and moral semantics, and ways of bridging the gap between internalist and externalist positions.

Kant on Maxims and Moral Motivation

Author : Peter Herissone-Kelly
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030055728
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Kant on Maxims and Moral Motivation written by Peter Herissone-Kelly and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-17 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book outlines and circumvents two serious problems that appear to attach to Kant’s moral philosophy, or more precisely to the model of rational agency that underlies that moral philosophy: the problem of experiential incongruence and the problem of misdirected moral attention. The book’s central contention is that both these problems can be sidestepped. In order to demonstrate this, it argues for an entirely novel reading of Kant’s views on action and moral motivation. In addressing the two main problems in Kant’s moral philosophy, the book explains how the first problem arises because the central elements of Kant’s theory of action seem not to square with our lived experience of agency, and moral agency in particular. For example, the idea that moral deliberation invariably takes the form of testing personal policies against the Categorical Imperative seems at odds with the phenomenology of such reasoning, as does the claim that all our actions proceed from explicitly adopted general policies, or maxims. It then goes on to discuss the second problem showing how it is a result of Kant’s apparent claim that when an agent acts from duty, her reason for doing so is that her maxim is lawlike. This seems to put the moral agent’s attention in the wrong place: on the nature of her own maxims, rather than on the world of other people and morally salient situations. The book shows how its proposed novel reading of Kant’s views ultimately paints an unfamiliar but appealing picture of the Kantian good-willed agent as much more embedded in and engaged with the world than has traditionally been supposed.

Moral Motivation Through the Life Span

Author : Gustavo Carlo
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803215495
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Moral Motivation Through the Life Span written by Gustavo Carlo and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moral Motivation through the Life Span is the fifty-first volume in the Nebraska Symposium on Motivation series, the longest continuously running symposium in the field of psychology. This work focuses on moral development theory and research, an area of academic study that began early in the twentieth century but has never before been addressed by the Symposium. What is morality, such theorists ask, and what exactly makes a "moral person"? ø The contributors to this volume are of diverse theoretical orientations and take different stances on a number of major themes: What motivates moral behavior? Are there certain universal moral values, or are such values always subjective? Does an individual's will or an individual's environment play a greater role in determining moral conduct? What influence can we attribute to spirituality? Finally, the contributors explore the practical applications of their research on moral motivation: What implications do such theories have for child-rearing or our educational system? How do we raise the next generation to be empathetic toward their fellow human beings?

What's Wrong with Morality?

Author : Charles Daniel Batson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199355541
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book What's Wrong with Morality? written by Charles Daniel Batson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2016 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most works on moral psychology consider morality an unalloyed good. Drawing primarily on social-psychological theory and research, this book looks at morality as a problem. The problem is that we often fail live up to our own moral standards. Why?

The Emergence of Autonomy in Kant's Moral Philosophy

Author : Stefano Bacin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107182859
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Book Synopsis The Emergence of Autonomy in Kant's Moral Philosophy by : Stefano Bacin

Download or read book The Emergence of Autonomy in Kant's Moral Philosophy written by Stefano Bacin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thorough study of why Kant developed the concept of autonomy, one of his central legacies for contemporary moral thought.

Motivational Internalism

Author : Gunnar Björnsson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199367965
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Motivational Internalism written by Gunnar Björnsson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-30 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Motivational internalism-the idea that there is an intrinsic or necessary connection between moral judgment and moral motivation-is a central thesis in a number of metaethical debates. In conjunction with a Humean picture of motivation, it provides a challenge for cognitivist theories that take moral judgments to concern objective aspects of reality. Versions of internalism have potential implications for moral absolutism, realism, non-naturalism, and rationalism. Being a constraint on more detailed conceptions of moral motivation and moral judgment, it is also directly relevant to wider issues in moral psychology. But internalism is a controversial thesis, and the apparent possibility of amoralists and the rejection of strong forms of internalism have also been seen as problems for non-cognitivists. This volume's thirteen new essays and introduction are meant to help readers appreciate state-of-the-art of research on internalism, to identify connections between various aspects of the debate, and to deepen discussion of a number of central aspects of metaethics. The introductory chapter provides a structured overview of the debate with a focus on the last two decades, while the book's three main sections focus on what evidence there is for or against various versions of internalism, the relevance of versions of internalism for wider metaethical issues, and different ways of accommodating both internalist and externalist aspects of moral practice, respectively.

Social Motivation, Justice, and the Moral Emotions

Author : Bernard Weiner
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1135601674
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Social Motivation, Justice, and the Moral Emotions written by Bernard Weiner and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2006-04-21 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Motivation, Justice, and the Moral Emotions proposes an attribution theory of interpersonal or social motivation that distinguishes between the role of thinking and feeling in determining action. The place of this theory within the larger fields of motivation and attributional analyses is explored. It features new thoughts concerning social motivation on such topics as help giving, aggression, achievement evaluation, compliance to commit a transgression, as well as new contributions to the understanding of social justice. Included also is material on moral emotions, with discussions of admiration, contempt, envy, gratitude, and other affects not considered in Professor Weiner's prior work. The text also contains previously unexamined topics regarding social inferences of arrogance and modesty. Divided into five chapters, this book: *considers the logical development and structure of a proposed theory of social motivation and justice; *reviews meta-analytic tests of the theory within the contexts of help giving and aggression and examines issues related to cultural and individual differences; *focuses on moral emotions including an analysis of admiration, envy, gratitude, jealousy, scorn, and others; *discusses conditions where reward decreases motivation while punishment augments strivings; and *provides applications that are beneficial in the classroom, in therapy, and in training programs. This book appeals to practicing and research psychologists and advanced students in social, educational, personality, political/legal, health, and clinical psychology. It will also serve as a supplement in courses on motivational psychology, emotion and motivation, altruism and/or pro-social behavior, aggression, social judgment, and morality. Also included is the raw material for 13 experiments relating to core predictions of the proposed attribution theory.

Motivation Ethics

Author : Mathew Coakley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135000457X
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Motivation Ethics written by Mathew Coakley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about a particular moral theory – motivation ethics – and why we should accept it. But it is also a book about moral theorizing, about how we might compare different structures of moral theory. In principle we might morally evaluate a range of objects: we might, for example, evaluate what people do – is some action right, wrong, permitted, forbidden, a duty or beyond what is required? Or we might evaluate agents: what is it to be morally heroic, or morally depraved, or highly moral? And, we could evaluate institutions: which ones are just, or morally better, or legitimate? Most theories focus on one (or two) of these and offer arguments against rivals. What this book does is to step back and ask a different question: of the theories that evaluate one object, are they compatible with an acceptable account of the evaluation of the other objects? So, for instance, if a moral theory tells us which actions are right and wrong, well can it then be compatible with a theory of what it is to be a morally good or bad or heroic or depraved agent (or deny the need for this)? It seems that this would be an easy task, but the book sets out how this is very difficult for some of our most prominent theories, why this is so, and why a theory based on motivations might be the right answer.

The Multidisciplinary Nature of Morality and Applied Ethics

Author : David Steinberg
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030456803
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The Multidisciplinary Nature of Morality and Applied Ethics written by David Steinberg and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-26 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people intuitively understand the nature of morality; this tends to belie the fact that morality is more complex, controversial and interesting than generally appreciated. This book provides a comprehensive overview of morality from various disciplines and perspectives. These include ethics and evolution, moral psychology, morality and culture, morality and religion and morality and the law. A chapter on evil illustrates the vulnerability of morality. The book also provides a description and critique of various ethical theories, the difference between a moral obligation and a moral ideal and the views of venerable moral philosophers who argue over issues such as whether objective moral truth exists. A number of practical ethical dilemmas are discussed. The book is written in language accessible to the general reader and will be of interest to members of organizational, governmental, and professional ethics committees, students in ethics fellowships or ethics degree programs, philosophers, and others who want to learn more about morality.

Moral Psychology

Author : Valerie Tiberius
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136304371
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book Moral Psychology written by Valerie Tiberius and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-30 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first philosophy textbook in moral psychology, introducing students to a range of philosophical topics and debates such as: What is moral motivation? Do reasons for action always depend on desires? Is emotion or reason at the heart of moral judgment? Under what conditions are people morally responsible? Are there self-interested reasons for people to be moral? Moral Psychology: A Contemporary Introduction presents research by philosophers and psychologists on these topics, and addresses the overarching question of how empirical research is (or is not) relevant to philosophical inquiry.

Regard for Reason in the Moral Mind

Author : Joshua May
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192539604
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Regard for Reason in the Moral Mind written by Joshua May and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The burgeoning science of ethics has produced a trend toward pessimism. Ordinary moral thought and action, we're told, are profoundly influenced by arbitrary factors and ultimately driven by unreasoned feelings. This book counters the current orthodoxy on its own terms by carefully engaging with the empirical literature. The resulting view, optimistic rationalism, shows the pervasive role played by reason our moral minds, and ultimately defuses sweeping debunking arguments in ethics. The science does suggest that moral knowledge and virtue don't come easily. However, despite the heavy influence of automatic and unconscious processes that have been shaped by evolutionary pressures, we needn't reject ordinary moral psychology as fundamentally flawed or in need of serious repair. Reason can be corrupted in ethics just as in other domains, but a special pessimism about morality in particular is unwarranted. Moral judgment and motivation are fundamentally rational enterprises not beholden to the passions.

Moral Realism

Author : Russ Shafer-Landau
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199259755
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Moral Realism written by Russ Shafer-Landau and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-06-19 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moral Realism is a systematic defence of the idea that there are objective moral standards. In the tradition of Plato and G. E. Moore, Russ Shafer-Landau argues that there are moral principles that are true independently of what anyone, anywhere, happens to think of them. These principles are a fundamental aspect of reality, just as much as those that govern mathematics or the natural world. They may be true regardless of our ability to grasp them, and their truth is not a matter of their being ratified from any ideal standpoint, nor of being the object of actual or hypothetical consensus, nor of being an expression of our rational nature. Shafer-Landau accepts Plato's and Moore's contention that moral truths are sui generis. He rejects the currently popular efforts to conceive of ethics as a kind of science, and insists that moral truths and properties occupy a distinctive area in our ontology. Unlike scientific truths, the fundamental moral principles are knowable a priori. And unlike mathematical truths, they are essentially normative: intrinsically action-guiding, and supplying a justification for all who follow their counsel. Moral Realism is the first comprehensive treatise defending non-naturalistic moral realism in over a generation. It ranges over all of the central issues in contemporary metaethics, and will be an important source of discussion for philosophers and their students interested in issues concerning the foundations of ethics.