Action And Ethics In Aristotle And Hegel

Author : Gary Pendlebury
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 223 pages
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Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351960984

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Action and Ethics in Aristotle and Hegel by Gary Pendlebury Pdf

Pendlebury alleges that abstraction and rationalization have had a strong and malign influence on normative moral philosophy in the 20th century. Criticizing writers such as Hare, Rawls and Scanlon for pursuing a conception of moral philosophy that bears little resemblance to the way in which human beings actually think and conduct themselves, Pendlebury, instead, suggests a ’Virtue Ethics’ inspired by Hegel’s and Aristotle’s accounts of action as a corrective to this trend, showing that moral activity is historically and socially based and must address the formed character of individual agents. This trend, which began with the responses by Locke, Hume and Kant to Descartes’ Meditations, rendered moral philosophy individualistic and psychologistic in contrast to Aristotle and Hegel’s claim that man is essentially a social creature. Pendlebury argues that this should be the starting point of any account and understanding of morality which roots the concept of will in the practical activity involved in being a member of an ethical community rather than an abstract metaphysical entity that is supposedly in the possession of individuals. In providing a critique of modern moral philosophy from this perspective, Pendlebury’s line of enquiry lends much support to ’Virtue Ethics’ as exemplified in the work of Hursthouse and Slote, while taking a more combative approach with those with whom he disputes. In doing so he shows that serious considerations of continental philosophy highlights the richness of moral activity absent from ’analytical’ tradition which for so long has been bent on marginalizing it.

Author : Arto Laitinen,Constantine Sandis
Publisher : Philosophers in Depth
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : IND:30000127707119

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Hegel on Action by Arto Laitinen,Constantine Sandis Pdf

This collection of essays focuses on various aspects of Hegel's 'Philosophy of Action' including (but not limited to) issues relating to conceptualization, explanation, intention, agency, narrativity holism, objectivity, practical reasoning, moral responsibility, free will and tragedy.

Author : Lawrence S. Stepelevich,David Lamb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015008388103

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Hegel's Philosophy of Action by Lawrence S. Stepelevich,David Lamb Pdf

Papers delivered at the joint meeting of the Hegel Society of America and the Hegel Society of Great Britain held at Merton College, Oxford, Sept. 1-4, 1981, to mark the 150th anniversary of Hegel's death. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author : Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : HARVARD:32044052889318

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The Ethics of Hegel by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Pdf

Author : Allen W. Wood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1990-11-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 052137782X

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Hegel's Ethical Thought by Allen W. Wood Pdf

Hegel's philosophy of society, politics and history is exposed to ethical debate on human rights, the justification of legal punishment, criteria of moral responsibility, and authority of individual conscience.

Author : Kelvin Knight
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780745638218

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Aristotelian Philosophy by Kelvin Knight Pdf

Aristotle is the most influential philosopher of practice, and Knight's new book explores the continuing importance of Aristotelian philosophy. First, it examines the theoretical bases of what Aristotle said about ethical, political and productive activity. It then traces ideas of practice through such figures as St Paul, Luther, Hegel, Heidegger and recent Aristotelian philosophers, and evaluates Alasdair MacIntyre's contribution. Knight argues that, whereas Aristotle's own thought legitimated oppression, MacIntyre's revision of Aristotelianism separates ethical excellence from social elitism and justifies resistance. With MacIntyre, Aristotelianism becomes revolutionary. MacIntyre's case for the Thomistic Aristotelian tradition originates in his attempt to elaborate a Marxist ethics informed by analytic philosophy. He analyses social practices in teleological terms, opposing them to capitalist institutions and arguing for the cooperative defence of our moral agency. In condensing these ideas, Knight advances a theoretical argument for the reformation of Aristotelianism and an ethical argument for social change.

Author : Dean Moyar
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780195391992

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Hegel's Conscience by Dean Moyar Pdf

This book provides a new interpretation of the ethical theory of G.W.F. Hegel. The aim is not only to give a new interpretation for specialists in German Idealism, but also to provide an analysis that makes Hegel's ethics accessible for all scholars working in ethical and political philosophy. While Hegel's political philosophy has received a good deal of attention in the literature, the core of his ethics has eluded careful exposition, in large part because it is contained in his claims about conscience. This book shows that, contrary to accepted wisdom, conscience is the central concept for understanding Hegel's view of practical reason and therefore for understanding his ethics as a whole. The argument combines careful exegesis of key passages in Hegel's texts with detailed treatments of problems in contemporary ethics and reconstructions of Hegel's answers to those problems. The main goals are to render comprehensible Hegel's notoriously difficult texts by framing arguments with debates in contemporary ethics, and to show that Hegel still has much to teach us about the issues that matter to us most. Central topics covered in the book are the connection of self-consciousness and agency, the relation of motivating and justifying reasons, moral deliberation and the holism of moral reasoning, mutual recognition, and the rationality of social institutions.

Author : Edward Halper
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1993-08-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438405575

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Form and Reason by Edward Halper Pdf

This book uses the study of philosophical texts to raise and explore metaphysical issues. On one level, each essay addresses a scholarly issue in a classical text, often a text of Aristotle's. On a deeper level, the issues Halper considers are metaphysical. However, unlike thinkers who have brought linguistic analysis and contemporary metaphysical notions to these texts, Halper approaches them to find their formulations of issues and their strategies of pursuit. Halper is not concerned with the defense of metaphysical commitments but with finding and exploring paths of metaphysical inquiry. The essays in this volume are exploratory and exegetical rather than decisive. Their contribution to metaphysics lies in the issues they raise, the methods they explore, and their conception of metaphysics as a discipline rooted in philosophical problems.

Author : Michael J. Thompson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351974240

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Hegel’s Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Politics by Michael J. Thompson Pdf

The renaissance in Hegel scholarship over the past two decades has largely ignored or marginalized the metaphysical dimension of his thought, perhaps most vigorously when considering his social and political philosophy. Many scholars have consistently maintained that Hegel’s political philosophy must be reconstructed without the metaphysical structure that Hegel saw as his crowning philosophical achievement. This book brings together twelve original essays that explore the relation between Hegel’s metaphysics and his political, social, and practical philosophy. The essays seek to explore what normative insights and positions can be obtained from examining Hegel’s distinctive view of the metaphysical dimensions of political philosophy. His ideas about the good, the universal, freedom, rationality, objectivity, self-determination, and self-development can be seen in a new context and with renewed understanding once their relation to his metaphysical project is considered. Hegel’s Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Politics will be of great interest to scholars of Hegelian philosophy, German Idealism, nineteenth-century philosophy, political philosophy, and political theory.

Author : Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Mind and body
ISBN : UOM:49015000811720

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Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Pdf

Author : Terence Irwin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1049 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9780199571789

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The Development of Ethics by Terence Irwin Pdf

"This book is a selective historical and critical study of moral philosophy in the Socratic tradition, with special attention to Aristotelian naturalism. It discusses the main topics of moral philosophy as they have developed historically, including: the human good, human nature, justice, friendship, and morality; the methods of moral inquiry; the virtues and their connexions; will, freedom, and responsibility; reason and emotion; relativism, subjectivism, and realism; thetheological aspect of morality. The first volume discusses ancient and mediaeval moral philosophy. The second volume examines early modern moral philosophy from the 16th to the 18th century. This third volume continues the story up to Rawls''s Theory of Justice. A comparison between the Kantian and the Aristotelian outlook is one central theme of the third volume. The chapters on Kant compare Kant both with his rationalist and empiricist predecessors and with the Aristotelian naturalist tradition. Reactions to Kant are traced through Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Kierkegaard. Utilitarian and idealist approaches to Kantian and Aristotelian views are traced through Sidgwick, Bradley, and Green. Mill and Sidgwick provide a link between 18th-centuryrationalism and sentimentalism and the 20th-century debates in the metaphysics and epistemology of morality. These debates are explored in Moore, Ross, Stevenson, Hare, C.I. Lewis, Heidegger, and in some more recent meta-ethical discussion. This volume concludes with a discussion of Rawls, withspecial emphasis on a comparison of his position with utilitarianism, intuitionism, Kantianism, naturalism, and idealism. Since this book seeks to be not only descriptive and exegetical, but also philosophical, it discusses the comparative merits of different views, the difficulties that they raise, and how some of the difficulties might be resolved. It presents the leading moral philosophers of the past as participants in a rational discussion in which the contemporary reader can participate"--EBL.

Author : William Henry Walsh
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1855065622

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Hegelian Ethics by William Henry Walsh Pdf

This examination of Hegelian ethics is based on a comparison with that of Kant. The book contrasts their methods, the scope of their ethical theories, and their views as to the content of ethics. It concludes that, while Hegel worked with a moral psychology very different to Kant's, his ethical theory should not be dismissed for that reason.

Author : Mark Alznauer,José M. Torralba
Publisher : Georg Olms Verlag
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783487153872

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Theories of Action and Morality by Mark Alznauer,José M. Torralba Pdf

Die in diesem Band versammelten Essays erörtern die Frage nach der Möglichkeit des Verstehens menschlichen Handelns ohne den Rückbezug auf moralische Werte und Normen. Obwohl die Autoren sich dieser Frage auf ganz unterschiedliche, manchmal divergierende, Weisen nähern, verbindet sie alle die Annahme, es sei nicht wünschenswert oder sogar inkohärent, das menschliche Handeln grundsätzlich unabhängig von moralischen Werten zu betrachten. Die Herausgeber haben sich um eine für Philosophen und Gesellschaftswissenschaftler gleichermaßen attraktive Beitragssammlung bemüht. Die Verknüpfung philosophischer und soziologischer Perspektiven könnte zur Klärung gegenseitiger Missverständnisse beitragen, die aufgrund eines mangelhaften Dialogs zwischen der philosophischen und soziologischen Handlungstheorie erwachsen sind. In diesem Band enthalten sind Essays von Terry Pinkard, Sebastian Rödl, Dieter Schönecker, Ana Marta González, John Levi Martin, Alejandro N. García Martínez, Sophie Djigo, Teresa Enríquez und Evgenia Mylonaki. The essays in this volume address the question of whether we can understand human action without reference to moral norms or values. Although the authors approach this question in different and sometimes even incompatible ways, they are united in thinking that it is undesirable or even incoherent to treat human agency as if it were conceptually independent of value questions. The editors have attempted to invite contributions that would be interesting to both philosophers and social theorists. The conjunction of philosophic and sociological perspectives might help to overcome some of the mutual misunderstandings that have been fostered by a lack of dialogue between the philosophic and sociological action theory. The volume includes essays by Terry Pinkard, Sebastian Rödl, Dieter Schönecker, Ana Marta González, John Levi Martin, Alejandro N. García Martínez, Sophie Djigo, Teresa Enríquez, and Evgenia Mylonaki.

Author : Maximilian Kiener
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 669 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000990171

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The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Responsibility by Maximilian Kiener Pdf

The philosophical inquiry of responsibility is a major and fast-growing field. It not only features questions around free will and moral agency but also addresses various challenges in the social, institutional, and legal contexts in which people are being held responsible. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Responsibility is an outstanding survey and exploration of these issues. Comprised of forty-one chapters by an international team of contributors, the Handbook is divided into three clear parts – on the history, the theory, and the practice of responsibility – within which the following key topics are examined: responsibility and wrongdoing responsibility and determinism the scope of responsibility the responsibility of individuals within society the concepts of responsibility the conditions and challenges of responsibility the practices of being and holding responsible the ethics and politics of responsibility responsibility in the law. Including suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter, The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Responsibility provides an extremely useful guide to the topic. It will be valuable reading for students and researchers in philosophy and applied ethics, as well as for those in related fields such as politics, law, and policymaking.

Author : Ido Geiger
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0804754241

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The Founding Act of Modern Ethical Life by Ido Geiger Pdf

It is well known that Hegel conceives of history as the gradual process of rational thought and of forms of political life. But he is usually thought to place himself at the end of this process. This book argues that an essential part of Hegel's historical-political thinking has escaped the notice of its interpreters.