Book Description
This collection of influential essays illustrates the range, depth, and importance of moral realism, the fundamental issues it raises, and the problems it faces.
Author : Geoffrey Sayre-McCord
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 19,72 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780801495410
This collection of influential essays illustrates the range, depth, and importance of moral realism, the fundamental issues it raises, and the problems it faces.
Author : Barrington Moore
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 17,94 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780801433764
The product of decades of reflection on issues of authority, inequality, and injustice, this volume analyzes fluctuating moral beliefs and behavior in political and economic affairs at different points in history, from the early Middle Ages in England to the prospects for liberalism under twentieth-century Soviet socialism.
Author : Owen Flanagan
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 31,71 MB
Release : 1993-08-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780262560740
Many philosophers believe that normative ethics is in principle independent of psychology. By contrast, the authors of these essays explore the interconnections between psychology and moral theory. They investigate the psychological constraints on realizable ethical ideals and articulate the psychological assumptions behind traditional ethics. They also examine the ways in which the basic architecture of the mind, core emotions, patterns of individual development, social psychology, and the limits on human capacities for rational deliberation affect morality.
Author : Annette Baier
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 13,44 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780674587168
Annette Baier delivers an appeal for our fundamental moral notions to be governed not by rules and codes but by trust: a moral prejudice. Along the way, she gives us the best feminist philosophy there is. Baier's topics range from violence to love, from cruelty to justice, and are linked by a preoccupation with vulnerability and inequality of vulnerability, with trust and distrust of equals, with cooperation and isolation. Throughout, she is concerned with the theme of women's roles. In this provocative exploration of the implications of trusting to trust rather than proscription, Baier interweaves anecdote and autobiography with readings of Hume and Kant to produce an entertaining, challenging, and highly readable book.
Author : Michael J. Sandel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 45,75 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674019287
In this book, Michael Sandel takes up some of the hotly contested moral and political issues of our time, including affirmative action, assisted suicide, abortion, gay rights, stem cell research, the meaning of toleration and civility, the gap between rich and poor, the role of markets, and the place of religion in public life. He argues that the most prominent ideals in our political life--individual rights and freedom of choice--do not by themselves provide an adequate ethic for a democratic society. Sandel calls for a politics that gives greater emphasis to citizenship, community, and civic virtue, and that grapples more directly with questions of the good life. Liberals often worry that inviting moral and religious argument into the public sphere runs the risk of intolerance and coercion. These essays respond to that concern by showing that substantive moral discourse is not at odds with progressive public purposes, and that a pluralist society need not shrink from engaging the moral and religious convictions that its citizens bring to public life.
Author : Alexander Pope
Publisher :
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 44,67 MB
Release : 1751
Category :
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Author : R.M. Hare
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 46,44 MB
Release : 2021-01-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0520367502
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1972.
Author : J. B. Schneewind
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 29,37 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0199563012
J.B. Schneewind presents a selection of his published essays on ethics, the history of ethics and moral psychology, together with a new piece offering an intellectual autobiography. The essays range across the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, with a particular focus on Kant and his relation to earlier thinkers.
Author : Alexander Pope
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 36,12 MB
Release : 2018-06-18
Category :
ISBN : 9781721115600
Of the knowledge and characters of men Pope, Alexander Mark Twain once famously said "there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past and can't be restored."Ê Well, over recent years, The British Library, working with Microsoft has embarked on an ambitious programme to digitise its collection of 19th century books. There are now 65,000Ê titles availableÊ (that's an incredible 25 million pages) of material ranging from works by famous names such asÊ Dickens, Trollope and Hardy as well as many forgotten literary gems, all of which can now be printed on demand and purchased right here on Amazon. Further information on The British Library and its digitisation programme can be found on The British Library website. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
Author : Alexander Pope
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 33,11 MB
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN :
First published in the year 1734, Alexander Pope's poem 'An Essay on Man Moral Essays and Satires' is concerned with the natural order God has decreed for man.