Author : John Rawls
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 42,20 MB
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0674042565
Constantly revised and refined over three decades, Rawls's lectures on various historical figures reflect his developing and changing views on the history of liberalism and democracy. With its careful analyses of the doctrine of the social contract, utilitarianism, and socialism, this volume has a critical place in the traditions it expounds.
Author : Colin Heydt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 46,32 MB
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 1108421091
A new account of a vital period in the history of ethics, focusing on the content of morality.
Author : Stefano Bacin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 38,65 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1107182859
A thorough study of why Kant developed the concept of autonomy, one of his central legacies for contemporary moral thought.
Author : Peter Olsthoorn
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 24,40 MB
Release : 2014-12-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1438455488
In this history of the development of ideas of honor in Western philosophy, Peter Olsthoorn examines what honor is, how its meaning has changed, and whether it can still be of use. Political and moral philosophers from Cicero to John Stuart Mill thought that a sense of honor and concern for our reputation could help us to determine the proper thing to do, and just as important, provide us with the much-needed motive to do it. Today, outside of the military and some other pockets of resistance, the notion of honor has become seriously out of date, while the term itself has almost disappeared from our moral language. Most of us think that people ought to do what is right based on a love for jus-tice rather than from a concern with how we are perceived by others. Wide-ranging and accessible, the book explores the role of honor in not only philosophy but also literature and war to make the case that honor can still play an important role in contemporary life.
Author : Gregory Vlastos
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 12,2 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521447355
This is the companion volume to Gregory Vlastos' highly acclaimed work Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher. Four ground-breaking papers which laid the basis for his understanding of Socrates are collected here, in revised form: they examine Socrates' elenctic method of investigative argument, his disavowal of knowledge, his concern for definition, and the complications of his relationship with the Athenian democracy. The fifth chapter is a new and provocative discussion of Socrates' arguments in the Protagoras and Laches. The epilogue 'Socrates and Vietnam' suggests that Socrates was not, as Plato claimed, the most just man of his time. The papers have been prepared for publication by Professor Myles Burnyeat with the minimum of editorial intervention.
Author : J. David Velleman
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 21,38 MB
Release : 2015-11-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1783740329
In this new edition of Foundations for Moral Relativism a distinguished moral philosopher tames a bugbear of current debate about cultural difference. J. David Velleman shows that different communities can indeed be subject to incompatible moralities, because their local mores are rationally binding. At the same time, he explains why the mores of different communities, even when incompatible, are still variations on the same moral themes. The book thus maps out a universe of many moral worlds without, as Velleman puts it, "moral black holes”. The six self-standing chapters discuss such diverse topics as online avatars and virtual worlds, lying in Russian and truth-telling in Quechua, the pleasure of solitude and the fear of absurdity. Accessibly written, this book presupposes no prior training in philosophy.
Author : James Rachels
Publisher :
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 16,57 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780877224051
Socrates said that moral philosophy deals with 'no small matter, but how we ought to live'. Beginning with a minimum conception of what morality is, the author offers discussions of the most important ethical theories. He includes treatments of such topics as cultural relativism, ethical subjectivism, psychological egoism, and ethical egoism.
Author : James Rachels
Publisher : McGraw Hill
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 13,35 MB
Release : 2012-03-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0077147987
Firmly established as the standard text for undergraduate courses in ethics, James Rachels and Stuart Rachels’ The Elements of Moral Philosophy introduces readers to major moral concepts and theories through eloquent explanations and compelling, thought-provoking discussions.
Author : J. B. Schneewind
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 46,80 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 : Thomas Morgan
Publisher :
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 47,7 MB
Release : 1738
Category : Apologetics
ISBN :
