The Radical Choice and Moral Theory
Author : 3Island Press
Publisher :
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 13,96 MB
Release : 1994-10-31
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ISBN : 9789401105026
Author : 3Island Press
Publisher :
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 13,96 MB
Release : 1994-10-31
Category :
ISBN : 9789401105026
Author : Zhenming Zhai
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 41,52 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9401105014
In a crisp, original style the author approaches the crucial question of moral theory, the `is--ought' problem via communicative argumentation. Moving to the end of Habermas's conception of the communicative action, he introduces the concept of `radical choice' as the key to the transition from the descriptive to the normative. Phenomenological subjectivity of the intersubjective life-world is being vindicated as the `arch-value' of all derivative values, or the first principle for all normative precepts. With exceptional acumen and mastery of the philosophical argument, the author -- a young native Chinese lately trained in a Western university -- delineates a fascinating route along which the philosophical question of justification raised in the analytic tradition can be answered on the basis of phenomenology. A noteworthy contribution to the interplay between the Anglo--American and Continental schools of philosophy.
Author : David Schmidtz
Publisher :
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 46,14 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691029184
Is it rational to be moral? How do rationality and morality fit together with being human? These questions are at the heart of David Schmidtz's exploration of the connections between rationality and morality. This inquiry leads into both metaethics and rational choice theory, as Schmidtz develops conceptions of what it is to be moral and what it is to be rational. He defends a fairly expansive conception of rational choice, considering how ends as well as means can be rationally chosen and explaining the role of self-imposed constraints in a rational life plan. His moral theory is dualistic, ranging over social structure as well as personal conduct and building both individual and collective rationality into its rules of recognition for morals. To the "why be moral" question, Schmidtz responds that being moral is rational, but he does not assume we have reasons to be rational. Instead, Schmidtz argues that being moral is rational in a particular way and that beings like us in situations like ours have reasons to be rational in just that way. This approach allows him to identify decisive reasons to be moral; at the same time, it explains why immorality is as prevalent as it is. This book thus offers a set of interesting and realistic conclusions about how morality fits into the lives of humanly rational agents operating in an institutional context like our own.
Author : Charles Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,39 MB
Release : 1985-03-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521317504
Philosophical Papers will interest a very wide range of philosophers and students of the human sciences.
Author : Sandra Jane Fairbanks
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 12,96 MB
Release : 2019-03-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0429723962
This book explains Kantian morality against an interrelated set of criticisms that constitute the most influential contemporary critique of Kantian morality. It demonstrates that a theory which emphasizes the guidance of impartial moral principles does not threaten a person's feelings of attachment.
Author : Robert S. Cohen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 50,23 MB
Release : 1996-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780792332336
Beijing International Conference, 1992
Author : James Doyle
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 33,90 MB
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0674976509
Elizabeth Anscombe’s “Modern Moral Philosophy” and “The First Person” have become touchstones of analytic philosophy but their significance remains controversial or misunderstood. James Doyle offers a fresh interpretation of Anscombe’s theses about ethical reasoning and individual identity that reconciles seemingly incompatible points of view.
Author : J. Baron
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 18,75 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9401582262
Public controversies - such as those about the distribution of goods between rich and poor, trade and population policies, allocation of medical resources, and the tradeoff between environment al protection and economic efficiency - often hinge on fundamental views about how we ought to make decisions tImt affect each other, that is, what principles we ought to follow. Efforts to find an acceptable public philosophy, a set of such principles on which people might agree, have foundered because of dis agreement among philosophers and others who are concerned with such issues. One view, which I shall develop and defend here, holds that decisions that affect others should be made according to an overall evaluation of the consequences of each option. This consequentialist view is opposed by a variety of alternatives, but many of the alternatives have in COlllmon a basis in moral intuition. To take a simple example, consequentialism holds that, other things equal, if we have decided that it is better to let a terminally ill patient die than to prolong her agony by keeping her alive, then we ought to kill her.
Author : H. E. Mason
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 33,74 MB
Release : 1996-07-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0195357124
Do moral dilemmas truly exist? What counts as a moral dilemma? Can an adequate moral theory admit the possibility of genuine conflicts of moral obligations? In this book, twelve prominent moral theorists examine these and other questions from a wide variety of philosophical perspectives. Concerned throughout with the implications of moral dilemmas for moral theory, this collection of essays captures in striking fashion the full scope and vitality of the current moral dilemmas debate. Including both realist and anti-realist meta-ethical positions, and Kantian and consequentialist normative views, Moral Dilemmas and Moral Theory sheds new light on several standing controversies in moral philosophy while raising a fresh set of challenging issues. Contributors include Simon Blackburn, Ruth Barcan Marcus, Alan Donagan, Terrance McConnell, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Mary Mothersill, Norman Dahl, David Brink, Peter Railton, Thomas E. Hill, Jr., Christopher Gowans, and H.E. Mason.
Author : Stephen O'Kane
Publisher :
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 20,35 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
O'Kane meticulously explores the problem of ethics and morality in modern society and endeavours to develop a contractual theory of ethics to overcome these problems. Ethics and Radical Freedom is a profound academic work that will form a reliable and enduring resource for researchers and students in this field.