Ends and Means
Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 22,3 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Social problems
ISBN : 1412847001
Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 22,3 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Social problems
ISBN : 1412847001
Author : John Kleinig
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 36,68 MB
Release : 2019-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0429677987
Policing is a highly pragmatic occupation. It is designed to achieve the important social ends of peacekeeping and public safety, and is empowered to do so using means that are ordinarily seen as problematic; that is, the use of force, deception, and invasions of privacy, along with considerable discretion. It is often suggested that the ends of policing justify the use of otherwise problematic means, but do they? This book explores this question from a philosophical perspective. The relationship between ends and means has a long and contested history both in moral/practical reasoning and public policy. Looking at this history through the lens of policing, criminal justice philosopher John Kleinig explores the dialectic of ends and means (whether the ends justify the means, or whether the ends never justify the means) and offers a new, sharpened perspective on police ethics. After tracing the various ways in which ends and means may be construed, the book surveys a series of increasingly concrete issues, focusing especially on those that arise in policing contexts. The competing moral demands made by ends and means culminate in considerations of noble cause corruption, dirty hands theory, lesser degradations (such as tear gas, tasers, chokeholds, and so on), and finally, those means deemed impermissible by the majority in Western culture, such as torture.
Author : Catharine Maria Sedgwick
Publisher :
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 37,28 MB
Release : 1839
Category : Conduct of life
ISBN :
Author : Robert Audi
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 11,54 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0190251557
This book is a full-scale account of the morally important ideas of treating persons merely as means and treating them as ends. Audi clarifies these independently of Kant, but with implications for understanding him, and presents a theory of conduct that enhances their usefulness both in ethical theory and in practical ethics.
Author : H.G. Wright
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 23,72 MB
Release : 2007-06-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1402052928
In this remarkable book, Gary Wright focuses thirty years’ experience as a family physician, and his Ph.D. in philosophy, to address the nature of good medical reasoning. Wright folds cognitive science into a pragmatist framework developed by John Dewey; this alternative view of mind and medical judgment leads to a model of reasoning that offers realistic guidance for medical decisions, one that each of us would want our own physicians to adopt.
Author : Michael White
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,35 MB
Release : 1990-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780393700985
Starting from the assumption that people experience emotional problems when the stories of their lives, as they or others have invented them, do not represent the truth, this volume outlines an approach to psychotherapy which encourages patients to take power over their problems.
Author : Vittorio Gregotti
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 10,36 MB
Release : 2010-11-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0226307581
Vittorio Gregotti—the architect of Barcelona’s Olympic Stadium, Milan’s Arcimboldi Opera Theater, and Lisbon’s Centro Cultural de Belém, among many other noted constructions—is not only a designer of international repute but an acclaimed theorist and critic. Architecture, Means and Ends is his practical and imaginative reflection on the role of the technical aspects of architectural design, both as part of the larger process of innovation and in relation to the mythic opposition between vision and construction. Interweaving the seemingly irreconcilable concerns of aesthetics, meaning, and construction, Architecture, Means and Ends reflects Gregotti’s overarching claim that buildings always have a symbolic, cultural content. In this book, he argues that by making symbolic expression a primary objective in the design of a project, the designer will produce a practical aesthetic as well as an ethical solution. Architecture, Means and Ends embraces that philosophy and will appeal to those, like Gregotti, working at the intersections of the history of design, art criticism, and architectural theory.
Author : F. Boldizzoni
Publisher : Springer
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 50,4 MB
Release : 2008-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0230584144
Capital has dominated the imagination of Western society from the Industrial Revolution. Means and Ends offers the first comprehensive interpretation of the rise, evolution and crisis of this concept from the sixteenth century to the modern day. Based on a wealth of primary sources it offers an exciting study of intellectual and cultural history.
Author : David Petrasek
Publisher : ICHRP
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 24,53 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Civil society
ISBN : 294025902X
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Author : Ernest Van den Haag
Publisher : Springer
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,4 MB
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1489959661