Absolute Ethics And Cosmic Morality

Author : Frank Luger
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 128 pages
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Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780359808991

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ABSOLUTE ETHICS and COSMIC MORALITY by Frank Luger Pdf

This is the companion volume to "Absolute Relativity and the Relativity of the Absolute". The human relevance of the Absolute is Ethics, which is manifest by cosmic morality via cosmodynamics, the modus operandi of the Absolute. Human morality ought to mirror cosmic morality, for optimal alignment with the Absolute, for which a new set of guidelines, the Thirty Commandments were introduced together with the basic propositions of a new ideology, called Mirism (from the Russian "Mir", meaning both "world" and "peace"). It was suggested that the solution to the external problems of Mankind is progressive colonization of outer space (with the strict proviso of not exporting our Evil and contaminating the Cosmos thereby), while the internal solution is moral maturation. Once maturation will have reached the level of integrity, then Mankind will have earned evolution into the next phase, the Cosmic Era.

Author : Frank Luger
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780359810635

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WELTHEIL: Absolute Ethics and Cosmic Morality by Frank Luger Pdf

This is the companion volume to "Absolute Relativity and the Relativity of the Absolute". The human relevance of the Absolute is Ethics, which is manifest by cosmic morality via cosmodynamics, the modus operandi of the Absolute. Human morality ought to mirror cosmic morality, for optimal alignment with the Absolute, for which a new set of guidelines, the Thirty Commandments were introduced together with the basic propositions of a new ideology, called Mirism (from the Russian "Mir", meaning both "world" and "peace"). It was suggested that the solution to the external problems of Mankind is progressive colonization of outer space (with the strict proviso of not exporting our Evil and contaminating the Cosmos thereby), while the internal solution is moral maturation. Once maturation will have reached the level of integrity, then Mankind will have earned evolution into the next phase, the Cosmic Era.

Author : David Baggett,Jerry L. Walls
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190491734

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God and Cosmos by David Baggett,Jerry L. Walls Pdf

Naturalistic ethics is the reigning paradigm among contemporary ethicists; in God and Cosmos, David Baggett and Jerry L. Walls argue that this approach is seriously flawed. This book canvasses a broad array of secular and naturalistic ethical theories in an effort to test their adequacy in accounting for moral duties, intrinsic human value, moral knowledge, prospects for radical moral transformation, and the rationality of morality. In each case, the authors argue, although various secular accounts provide real insights and indeed share common ground with theistic ethics, the resources of classical theism and orthodox Christianity provide the better explanation of the moral realities under consideration. Among such realities is the fundamental insight behind the problem of evil, namely, that the world is not as it should be. Baggett and Walls argue that God and the world, taken together, exhibit superior explanatory scope and power for morality classically construed, without the need to water down the categories of morality, the import of human value, the prescriptive strength of moral obligations, or the deliverances of the logic, language, and phenomenology of moral experience. This book thus provides a cogent moral argument for God's existence, one that is abductive, teleological, and cumulative.

Author : Robert Kane
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
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Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315480039

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Through the Moral Maze by Robert Kane Pdf

"On the ... issue of our pluralistic age -- whether we can continue to believe in absolute value -- Robert Kane has written the most helpful discussion I know. It is clear, cogent, and above all, convincing". -- Huston Smith, author of The World's Religions

Author : Nancey C. Murphy,George Francis Rayner Ellis
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451408420

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On the Moral Nature of the Universe by Nancey C. Murphy,George Francis Rayner Ellis Pdf

Ellis and Murphy show how contemporary sciences actually support a religiously based ethic of nonviolence, not by appealing to the Enlightment's mechanismic Creator God or revelation's Father God but by discerning the transcendent ground in the laws of nature, the emergence of intelligent freedom, and the echoes of "knoetic" self-giving in cosmology and biology.

Author : Brian G. Henning
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005-10-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0822970996

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The Ethics of Creativity by Brian G. Henning Pdf

A central concern of nearly every environmental ethic is its desire to extend the scope of direct moral concern beyond human beings to plants, nonhuman animals, and the systems of which they are a part. Although nearly all environmental philosophies have long since rejected modernity's conception of individuals as isolated and independent substances, few have replaced this worldview with an alternative that is adequate to the organic, processive world in which we find ourselves. In this context, Brian G. Henning argues that the often overlooked work of Alfred North Whitehead has the potential to make a significant contribution to environmental ethics. Additionally inspired by classical American philosophers such as William James, John Dewey and Charles Sanders Pierce and environmental philosophers such as Aldo Leopold, Peter Singer, Albert Schweitzer, and Arne Naess, Henning develops an ethical theory of which the seminal insight is called "The Ethics of Creativity." By systematically examining and developing a conception of individuality that is equally at home with the microscopic world of subatomic events and the macroscopic world of ecosystems, The Ethics of Creativity correctly emphasizes the well-being of wholes, while not losing sight of the importance of the unique centers of value that constitute these wholes. In this way, The Ethics of Creativity has the potential to be a unique voice in contemporary moral philosophy.

Author : Roger Crisp
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198716358

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The Cosmos of Duty by Roger Crisp Pdf

Argues that Sidgwick is largely correct about many central ethical questions in his 1874 book, but that it can be hard to understand and raises many qustions. Provides a comprehensive perspective on Methods of ethics.

Author : Tyler Paytas,Tim Henning
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367531526

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Kantian and Sidgwickian Ethics by Tyler Paytas,Tim Henning Pdf

As champions of deontology and consequentialism respectively, Kant and Sidgwick disagree on many important issues. However, close examination reveals a surprising amount of consensus on various topics including moral psychology, moral epistemology, and moral theology.

Author : Nicolai Hartmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351504645

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Moral Phenomena by Nicolai Hartmann Pdf

Since the nineteenth century, moral philosophy in the Western world has been dominated by utilitarianism, Kantianism, and relativism. Only a few philosophers have been able to escape from this Procrustean bed. Foremost among these few is Nicolai Hartmann (1882-1950). Together with Henri Bergson and Martin Heidegger, Hartmann was instrumental in restoring metaphysics. Hartmann's metaphysics differs markedly from that of both Bergson and Heidegger, in his indebtedness to Plato.In 1926, Hartmann published a massive treatise, Ethik, which was translated into English by Stanton Coit and published as Ethics in 1932. Ethics is probably the most outstanding treatise on moral philosophy in the twentieth century. The central concept of the book is ""value."" Drawing upon the pre-modern view of ethics, Hartmann maintains that values are objectively given, part and parcel of the order of being. We cannot invent values, we can merely discover them.The first part of Ethics is concerned with the structure of ethical phenomena and criticizes utilitarianism, Kantianism, and relativism as misleading approaches. After some introductory thoughts concerning the competence of practical philosophy, Hartmann discusses the essence of moral values, including their absoluteness and ideal being, and the essence of the ""ought."" Hartmann is both controversial and compelling. He provides a moral philosophy that rejects the subjectivism of the ruling approaches, without taking recourse to older theological notions on the foundation of the ethical. In sum: Hartmann's Ethics constitutes an impressive and preeminent contribution to moral philosophy.

Author : Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015026488109

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Man's Place in the Cosmos by Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison Pdf

Author : James K. Feibleman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401193214

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Moral Strategy by James K. Feibleman Pdf

No statement, except one, can be made with which all philosophers would agree. The exception is this statement itself. The disagreement has the advantage that it gets all the proposals out into the open where they can be examined, but it has the dis advantage that the cogency of any one philosophy must rely entirely upon that wide public which is unprepared to deal with it. Fortunately, ethics has a more immediate appeal than some other branches of philosophy; yet the history of the topic gives no indication that this circumstance has had the happy results we might have expected. One peculiarity of ethics is that its problems are rarely settled on its own grounds. Ethical problems are for the most part referred to socially established moralities, and moralities are socially established not on the basis of philosophy but rather by some sponsoring insti or politics. Such establishments, however, tution, usually religion depend on the prior preparation of ethical proposals by philosophers. For it stands to reason that an ethics cannot be socially established if there is no ethics to establish. Thus philosophers provide the justifi cation for socially-established moralities while seeming not to do so.

Author : Nicolai Hartmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351504768

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Moral Freedom by Nicolai Hartmann Pdf

Ethics is Nicolai Hartmann's magnum opus on moral philosophy. Volume 1, Moral Phenomena, is concerned with the nature and structure of ethical phenomena. Volume 2, Moral Values, describes all values as forming a complex and imperfectly known system. The final volume, Moral Freedom, deals with one of the oldest puzzles in both philosophy and theology: the individual's freedom of the will.Freedom of the will is a necessary precondition of morality. Without it, there is no morality in the full sense of the word. In Moral Freedom Hartmann sets out to refute the determinist view that freedom of the will is impossible. Following Kant, while rejecting his transcendentalism, Hartmann first discusses the tension between causality and the freedom of the will.The tension between the determination by moral values and the freedom of the will is next examined, a crucial issue completely overlooked by Kant and virtually all other modern philosophers, but recognized by the scholastics. Why should we believe in the freedom of the will with regard to the moral values? Are there good reasons for thinking that it exists? If freedom of the will vis-a-vis the moral values does exist, how is it to be conceived? Moral Freedom concludes with the famous postscript on the antinomies between ethics and religion.Hartmann's Ethics may well be the most outstanding treatise on moral philosophy in the twentieth century. Andreas Kinneging's introduction sheds light on the volume's continuing relevance.

Author : Rudolf Eucken
Publisher : The Knickerbocker Press
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Ethics and Modern Thought : A Theory of Their Relations by Rudolf Eucken Pdf

Ethics and Modern Thought : A Theory of Their Relations In our days morality has ceased to be a matter of such unquestionable certainty, and has been drawn into the wave of disintegration which is passing over our minds. Formerly the scientific definition and accurate conception of morality were matters of contention; but it is now the fundamental idea of morality that is questioned. Many of our contemporaries are of opinion that the revelations of modern science and the claims of modern life have destroyed the foundations of morality and made it untenable in the old sense. Morality in the old sense demands dissociation of our aspirations from our own personal interest, and devotion to something that is esteemed higher; whenever an action that appears good is seen to proceed from selfish motives, it can no longer claim any moral value. There is a widespread tendency in modern life, to question the possibility of such detachment from the Ego, and to acknowledge the coercion exercised over man by his instinct of self-preservation. Emancipation from this restraint is not even considered desirable, for constant strife and competition seem necessary to life and progress, and a softening of this strife would inevitably reduce the energy of life. Morality further demands independence and spontaneity of action. An action performed under the pressure of external coercion or mechanical habit, loses immediately its moral character. Now such independence and spontaneity are not possible apart from some kind of free choice, yet this would contradict the law of causality, which in the present age is generally considered to rule the whole of reality. In man's soul, the supremacy of this law of causality is strengthened by our growing insight into the power of heredity and of social environment. Yet morality in the old sense stands and falls with man's power of spontaneous and independent decision.

Author : Frank Luger
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780359807802

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BILDERFARBEN by Frank Luger Pdf

?Bilderfarben? (German, lit. ?Picturescolors?) is three science-fiction novels in one volume. The first book starts with Dr. Dross at the point of suicide, when a mysterious woman, Genie, Captain of a starship, takes him on a cosmic voyage to the limits of the Universe. Then they visit the origins of most religions, devoid of all myths and legends, using time-travel. An ideology, Mirism is proposed, so that Man may peacefully evolve into the Cosmic Era. The second book continues with turning theory into practice, and establish Mirism as a reliable and valid guide with which to resolve conflicts, create a world government, etc. The third book takes a look, using time-travel, at the future to see the Mirist evolution of Mankind into the Cosmic Era. Dr. Dross, now Dr. Mir marries his young Arab doctor, and they have a son. The stories in all three volumes are interspersed with many humorous dialogues and sexy adventures. Dr. Mir dies, and his ashes are scattered in the garden of the hospital where he was born.

Author : DR. MIR
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781794839762

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THE TRAGEDY OF MANKIND by DR. MIR Pdf

The purpose of this book is to complete the 'big picture' sketched in "The Mirist Vision", by taking a look at the ultimate perspective of the past, the present, and the future of our universe, including our infinitesimal role in it. The tragedy of evolving the human neocortex, civilization and culture, neutral science without God, space colonization with Evil, the entropic doom of Mankind, and the entropic doom of the universe are all discussed. To show that despite all the inevitable tragedies, there is a way to live with them, to keep striving despite them, and most importantly never to give up hope, because we all are, past, present, and future, integral and valuable parts of Ultimate Reality as Cosmic Citizens. All these tragedies are inevitable, being pushed by the Arrow of Time. One way to smooth the inevitable is by Mirism, the new ideology of Cosmic Man and the progressive establishment of the Cosmic Era. That we know, reliably-validly, all this is the Tragedy of Mankind. NOTE: FULL-COLOR INTERIOR!