Broad S Critical Essays In Moral Philosophy

Author : David Cheney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134696246

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Broad's Critical Essays in Moral Philosophy (Routledge Revivals) by David Cheney Pdf

The ideas of C. D. Broad have affected the work of moral philosophers throughout the twentieth century to the present day. First published in 1971, this edited volume contains Broad’s best essays on the philosophical problems of Ethics, mostly written and published between 1914 and 1964. Among the essays are Broad’s important critiques of G. E. Moore’s ethical theory, his lecture entitled ‘Determinism, Indeterminism and Libertarianism’, and other pieces discussing topics as broad as Conscience, Egoism and Free Will. This reissue serves as an important companion to Broad’s other works, a number of which have also been reissued within the Routledge Library Editions series, and will be invaluable to students interested in Broad’s theories and twentieth-century philosophical thought.

Author : Charlie Dunbar Broad
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:954535901

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Broad's Critical Essays in Moral Philosophy by Charlie Dunbar Broad Pdf

Author : C.D. Broad
Publisher : Springer
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1985-09-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037894867

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Ethics by C.D. Broad Pdf

This volume contains C. D. Broad's Cambridge lectures on Ethics. Broad gave a course of lectures on the subject, intended primarily for Part I of the Moral Sciences Tripos, every academic year from 1933 - 34 up to and in cluding 1952 - 53 (except that he did not lecture on Ethics in 1935 - 36). The course however was frequently revised, and the present version is es sentially that which he gave in 1952 - 53. Broad always wrote out his lectures fully beforehand, and the manuscript on Ethics, although full of revisions, is in a reasonably good state. But his handwriting is small and close and in places difficult to decipher. I therefore fear that some words may have been misread. There was an additional complication. In the summer of 1953 Broad revised and enlarged two sections of the course, namely the section on "Moore's theory" and that on "Naturalistic theories" (both sections occur in Chapter 4). The revised version of the section on Moore is undoubtedly superior to the earlier version, and I have therefore included it. But in my opinion this is not true of the new version of the section on naturalistic theories: although more comprehensive than the earlier version, it is not only repetitive in itself, but also repeats, sometimes almost verbatim, passages which occur elsewhere in the lectures. In brief, the new version is not fully integrated with the rest of the course.

Author : Catherine Wilson
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781783742011

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Metaethics from a First Person Standpoint by Catherine Wilson Pdf

Metaethics from a First Person Standpoint addresses in a novel format the major topics and themes of contemporary metaethics, the study of the analysis of moral thought and judgement. Metathetics is less concerned with what practices are right or wrong than with what we mean by ‘right’ and ‘wrong.’ Looking at a wide spectrum of topics including moral language, realism and anti-realism, reasons and motives, relativism, and moral progress, this book engages students and general readers in order to enhance their understanding of morality and moral discourse as cultural practices. Catherine Wilson innovatively employs a first-person narrator to report step-by-step an individual’s reflections, beginning from a position of radical scepticism, on the possibility of objective moral knowledge. The reader is invited to follow along with this reasoning, and to challenge or agree with each major point. Incrementally, the narrator is led to certain definite conclusions about ‘oughts’ and norms in connection with self-interest, prudence, social norms, and finally morality. Scepticism is overcome, and the narrator arrives at a good understanding of how moral knowledge and moral progress are possible, though frequently long in coming. Accessibly written, Metaethics from a First Person Standpoint presupposes no prior training in philosophy and is a must-read for philosophers, students and general readers interested in gaining a better understanding of morality as a personal philosophical quest.

Author : Thomas Hurka
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191038549

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British Ethical Theorists from Sidgwick to Ewing by Thomas Hurka Pdf

Thomas Hurka presents the first full historical study of an important strand in the development of modern moral philosophy. His subject is a series of British ethical theorists from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, who shared key assumptions that made them a unified and distinctive school. The best-known of them are Henry Sidgwick, G. E. Moore, and W. D. Ross; others include Hastings Rashdall, H. A. Prichard, C. D. Broad, and A. C. Ewing. They disagreed on some important topics, especially in normative ethics. Thus some were consequentialists and others deontologists: Sidgwick thought only pleasure is good while others emphasized perfectionist goods such as knowledge, aesthetic appreciation, and virtue. But all were non-naturalists and intuitionists in metaethics, holding that moral judgements can be objectively true, have a distinctive subject-matter, and are known by direct insight. They also had similar views about how ethical theory should proceed and what are relevant arguments in it; their disagreements therefore took place on common ground. Hurka recovers the history of this under-appreciated group by showing what its members thought, how they influenced each other, and how their ideas changed through time. He also identifies the shared assumptions that made their school unified and distinctive, and assesses their contributions critically, both when they debated each other and when they agreed. One of his themes is that that their general approach to ethics was more fruitful philosophically than many better-known ones of both earlier and later times.

Author : Igor Primoratz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351917568

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Military Ethics by Igor Primoratz Pdf

Recent developments such as the 'new wars' or the growing privatisation of warfare, and the ever more sophisticated military technology, present the military with difficult ethical challenges. This book offers a selection of the best scholarly articles on military ethics published in recent decades. It gives a hearing to all the main ethical approaches to war: just war theory, consequentialism, and pacifism. Part I includes essays on justice of war (jus ad bellum), focussing on defence against aggression and humanitarian armed intervention, but also addressing topics such as conscientious objection and the relation of patriotism to war. Articles in Part II deal with the central problems of justice in war (jus in bello): civilian immunity and 'collateral damage' to civilian life and property. Essays in Part III look into the moral issues facing the military as a profession, such as the civil - military relations, the responsibilities of officers to their soldiers and to their military superiors, and the status and responsibilities of prisoners of war.

Author : C.D. Broad
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317830719

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Ethics and the History of Philosophy by C.D. Broad Pdf

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Benedikt Kahmen,Markus Stepanians
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110302295

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Critical Essays on "Causation and Responsibility" by Benedikt Kahmen,Markus Stepanians Pdf

Due to its scope and depth, Moore’s Causation and Responsibility is probably the most important publication in the philosophy of law since the publication of Hart’s and Honoré’s Causation in the Law in 1959. This volume offers, for the first time, a detailed exchange between legal and philosophical scholars over Moore’s most recent work. In particular, it pioneers the dialogue between English-speaking and German philosophy of law on a broad range of pressing foundational questions concerning causation in the law. It thereby fulfills the need for a comprehensive, international and critical discussion of Moore’s influential arguments. The 15 contributors to the proposed volume span the whole interdisciplinary field from law and morals to metaphysics, and the authors include distinguished criminal and tort lawyers, as well as prominent theoretical and practical philosophers from four nations. In addition, young researchers take brand-new approaches in the field. The collection is essential reading for anyone interested in legal and moral theory.

Author : David K. Chan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781402068720

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Moral Psychology Today by David K. Chan Pdf

This volume is an edited collection of original papers on the theme of "Values, Rational Choice, and the Will". The editor is a Stanford-trained moral philosopher, and the organizer of a conference held on April 1-3, 2004. The conference succeeded in bringing together a wide range of essays that dealt with most of the central questions of moral philosophy today, in both normative ethics and meta-ethics, theoretical and applied ethics, and especially in moral psychology.

Author : Thomas Baldwin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 986 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 052159104X

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The Cambridge History of Philosophy 1870-1945 by Thomas Baldwin Pdf

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Author : Walter Sinnott-Armstrong,Robert Audi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0742513173

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Rationality, Rules, and Ideals by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong,Robert Audi Pdf

Bernard Gert's moral theory is among the clearest and most comprehensive on the contemporary scene. It touches on elements of the dominant ethical orientations---utilitarianism, Kantianism, contractionism, and virtue ethics--without fitting neatly into any of those categories. For that reason, Gert's moral theory appeals to many ethicists dissatisfied with each of the dominant formulations. Rationality, Rules, and Ideals presents Gert's Morality, the reactions by a number of prominent scholars, and Gert's response. All told, it is a remarkably wide-ranging study of ethical theory. The work is broken down into six parts, making Rationality, Rules, and Ideals perfect for a broad-ranging course on ethical theory, following Gert's critiques of utilitariansim, Kantianism, and virtue ethics. Both students and professionals will find much material to work with in this volume. The papers contribute not only to the understanding of Gert's wide-ranging theory but to a number of important topics in ethic theory, the theory of rationality, and applied ethics.

Author : Susana Nuccetelli,Gary Seay
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199281725

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Themes from G. E. Moore by Susana Nuccetelli,Gary Seay Pdf

These sixteen original essays, whose authors include some of the world's leading philosophers, examine themes from the work of the Cambridge philosopher G. E. Moore (1873-1958), and demonstrate his considerable continuing influence on philosophical debate. Part I bears on epistemological topics, such as scepticism about the external world, the significance of common sense, and theories of perception. Part II is devoted to themes in ethics, such as Moore's open question argument, his non-naturalism, utilitarianism, and his notion of organic unities.

Author : Michael Beaney
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 1184 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191662669

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The Oxford Handbook of The History of Analytic Philosophy by Michael Beaney Pdf

During the course of the twentieth century, analytic philosophy developed into the dominant philosophical tradition in the English-speaking world. In the last two decades, it has become increasingly influential in the rest of the world, from continental Europe to Latin America and Asia. At the same time there has been deepening interest in the origins and history of analytic philosophy, as analytic philosophers examine the foundations of their tradition and question many of the assumptions of their predecessors. This has led to greater historical self-consciousness among analytic philosophers and more scholarly work on the historical contexts in which analytic philosophy developed. This historical turn in analytic philosophy has been gathering pace since the 1990s, and the present volume is the most comprehensive collection of essays to date on the history of analytic philosophy. It contains state-of-the-art contributions from many of the leading scholars in the field, all of the contributions specially commissioned. The introductory essays discuss the nature and historiography of analytic philosophy, accompanied by a detailed chronology and bibliography. Part One elucidates the origins of analytic philosophy, with special emphasis on the work of Frege, Russell, Moore, and Wittgenstein. Part Two explains the development of analytic philosophy, from Oxford realism and logical positivism to the most recent work in analytic philosophy, and includes essays on ethics, aesthetics, and political philosophy as well as on the areas usually seen as central to analytic philosophy, such as philosophy of language and mind. Part Three explores certain key themes in the history of analytic philosophy.

Author : R.M. Hare
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780520323339

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Essays on Philosophical Method by R.M. Hare Pdf

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 : Thomas Hurka
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199577446

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Underivative Duty by Thomas Hurka Pdf

A team of eminent contemporary philosophers present the first collective study of seminal British moral thinkers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Some, like Henry Sidgwick and G. E. Moore, are already recognized as leading philosophers of their day; others, like Hastings Rashdall and A.C. Ewing, are unjustly neglected.