Cultivating Our Passionate Attachments

Author : Matthew J. Dennis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000191196

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Cultivating Our Passionate Attachments by Matthew J. Dennis Pdf

Does a flourishing life involve pursuing passionate attachments? Can we choose what these passionate attachments will be? This book offers an original theory of how we can actively cultivate our passionate attachments. The author argues that not only do we have reason to view passionate attachments as susceptible to growth, change, and improvement, but we should view these entities as amenable to self-cultivation. He uses Pierre Hadot’s and Michel Foucault’s accounts of Hellenistic self-cultivation as vital conceptual tools to formulate a theory of cultivating our passionate attachments. First, their accounts offer the conceptual resources for a philosophical theory of how we can cultivate our passionate attachments. Second, the exercises of self-cultivation they focus on allow us to outline a practical method though which we can cultivate our passionate character. Doing this brings out a significantly new dimension to the role of the passionate attachments in the flourishing life and offers theoretical and practical accounts of how we can cultivate them based on the Hellenistic conception of self-directed character change. Cultivating Our Passionate Attachments will be of interest to advanced students and scholars working in virtue ethics, moral philosophy, and ancient philosophy.

Author : Matthew Dennis (Doctoral Researcher)
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1003081150

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Cultivating Our Passionate Attachments by Matthew Dennis (Doctoral Researcher) Pdf

"Does a flourishing life involve pursuing passionate attachments? Can we choose what these passionate attachments will be? This book offers an original theory of how we can actively cultivate our passionate attachments. The author argues that not only do we have reason to view passionate attachments as susceptible to growth, change, and improvement, but we should view these entities as amenable to self-cultivation. He uses Pierre Hadot's and Michel Foucault's accounts of Hellenistic self-cultivation as vital conceptual tools to formulate a theory of cultivating our passionate attachments. First, their accounts offer the conceptual resources for a philosophical theory of how we can cultivate our passionate attachments. Second, the exercises of self-cultivation they focus on allow us to outline a practical method though which we can cultivate our passionate character. Doing this brings out a significantly new dimension to the role of the passionate attachments in the flourishing life and offers theoretical and practical accounts of how we can cultivate them based on the Hellenistic conception of self-directed character change. Cultivating Our Passionate Attachments will be of interest to advanced students and scholars working in virtue ethics, moral philosophy, and ancient philosophy"--

Author : Neil Durrant
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350298897

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Nietzsche's Renewal of Ancient Ethics by Neil Durrant Pdf

Nietzsche's Renewal of Ancient Ethics connects different strands in Nietzsche studies to progress a unique interpretation of friendship in his writings. Exploring this alternative approach to Nietzsche's ethics through the influence of ancient Greek ideals on his ideas, Neil Durrant highlights the importance of contest for developing strong friendships. Durrant traces the history of what Nietzsche termed a 'higher friendship' to the ancient Greek ideal of the Homeric hero. In this kind of friendship, neither person attempts to tyrannize or dominate the other but rather aims to promote the differences between them as a way of stimulating stronger and fiercer contests. Through this exchange, they discover new heights-new standards of excellence-both for themselves and for others. Durrant shows how the development of this approach to personal relationships relied on Nietzsche rejecting the Christian ideals of love and compassion to build an ethics which incorporated aspects of evolutionary biology into the ancient Homeric ideals he was himself wedded to. The resulting 'higher friendship' is strong enough to include not only love and compassion, but also enmity and opposition, expanding our notion of what is good and ethical in the process.

Author : Anne Schwenkenbecher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000290905

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Getting Our Act Together by Anne Schwenkenbecher Pdf

Together we can often achieve things that are impossible to do on our own. We can prevent something bad from happening, or we can produce something good, even if none of us could do it by ourselves. But when are we morally required to do something of moral importance together with others? This book develops an original theory of collective moral obligations. These are obligations that individual moral agents hold jointly but not as unified collective agents. The theory does not stipulate a new type of moral obligation but rather suggests that to think of some of our obligations as joint or collective is the best way of making sense of our intuitions regarding collective moral action problems. Where we have reason to believe that our efforts are most efficient as part of a collective endeavor, we may incur collective obligations together with others who are similarly placed as long as we are able to establish compossible individual contributory strategies towards that goal. The book concludes with a discussion of 'massively shared obligations' to major-scale moral problems such as global poverty. Getting Out Act Together: A Theory of Collective Moral Obligations will appeal to researchers and advanced students working in moral, political and social philosophy, philosophy of action, social epistemology and philosophy of social science.

Author : Rachel Fedock,Michael Kühler,Raja Rosenhagen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000328493

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Love, Justice, and Autonomy by Rachel Fedock,Michael Kühler,Raja Rosenhagen Pdf

Philosophers have long been interested in love and its general role in morality. This volume focuses on and explores the complex relation between love and justice as it appears within loving relationships, between lovers and their wider social context, and the broader political realm. Special attention is paid to the ensuing challenge of understanding and respecting the lovers’ personal autonomy in all three contexts. Accordingly, the essays in this volume are divided into three thematic sections. Section I aims at shedding further light on conceptual and practical issues concerning the compatibility or incompatibility of love and justice within relationships of love. For example, are loving relations inherently unjust? Might love require justice? Or do love and justice belong to distinct moral domains? The essays in Section II consider the relation between the lovers on the one hand and their broader societal environment on the other. Specifically, how exactly are love and impartiality related? Are they compatible or not? Is it unjust to favor one’s beloved? Finally, Section III looks at the political dimensions of love and justice. How, for instance, do various accounts of love inform how we are to relate to our fellow citizens? If love is taken to play an important role in fostering or hindering the development of personal autonomy, what are the political implications that need to be addressed, and how? In addressing these questions, this book engenders a better understanding both of conceptual and practical issues regarding the relation between love, justice, and autonomy as well as their broader societal and political implications. It will be of interest to advanced students and scholars working on the philosophy of love from ethical, political, and psychological angles.

Author : Tristan J. Rogers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000222623

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The Authority of Virtue by Tristan J. Rogers Pdf

This book provides a unified account of the connection between justice and the good life. It argues that the virtues of character require institutions, while good institutions enable persons to live together virtuously. Although virtue ethics and political philosophy are rich and sophisticated philosophical traditions, there has been an unfortunate divergence, in theory and practice, between the virtues of character and the virtues of institutions. This book has two primary purposes. First, it reorients political philosophy around the concept of the good life. To do so, the author addresses the problem of political authority from a virtue ethics perspective. He also considers whether a political theory oriented around the good life is compatible with Rawls’s notion of reasonable pluralism. Second, the book explains the relationship between the virtues of institutions and the virtues of character. The author shows how institutions support the development and exercise of the virtues of character, while examining specific other-regarding virtues such as justice and friendship. The Authority of Virtue will appeal to scholars and advanced students working in virtue ethics, social and political philosophy, ancient philosophy, and political theory.

Author : Vinod Acharya,Ryan J. Johnson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350086319

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Nietzsche and Epicurus by Vinod Acharya,Ryan J. Johnson Pdf

This volume explores Nietzsche's decisive encounter with the ancient philosopher, Epicurus. The collected essays examine many previously unexplored and underappreciated convergences, and investigate how essential Epicurus was to Nietzsche's philosophical project through two interrelated overarching themes: nature and ethics. Uncovering the nature of Nietzsche's reception of, relation to, and movement beyond Epicurus, contributors provide insights into the relationship between suffering, health and philosophy in both thinkers; Nietzsche's stylistic analysis of Epicurus; the ethics of self-cultivation in Nietzsche's Epicureanism; practices of eating and thinking in Nietzsche and Epicurus; the temporality of Epicurean pleasure; the practice of the gay science, and Epicureanism and politics. The essays also provide creative comparisons with the Stoics, Hobbes, Mill, Guyau, Buddhism, and more. Nietzsche and Epicurus offers original and illuminating perspectives on Nietzsche's relation to the Hellenistic thinker, in whom Nietzsche saw the embodiment of the practice of philosophy as an art of existing.

Author : Andrew Sneddon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000218220

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Offense and Offensiveness by Andrew Sneddon Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive study of the nature and significance of offense and offensiveness. It incorporates insights from moral philosophy and moral psychology to rationally reconstruct our ordinary ideas and assumptions about these notions. When someone claims that something is offensive, others are supposed to listen. Why? What is it for something to be offensive? Likewise, it’s supposed to matter if someone claims to have been offended. Is this correct? In this book, Andrew Sneddon argues that we should think of offense as a moralized bad feeling. He explains offensiveness in terms of symbolic value. We tend to give claims of both offense and offensiveness more credence than they deserve. While it is in principle possible for there to be genuine moral problems of offense and offensiveness, we should expect such problems to be rare. Offense and Offensiveness: A Philosophical Account will be of interest to scholars and students working in moral philosophy and moral psychology.

Author : Joseph Ulatowski,Liezl van Zyl
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000222586

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Virtue, Narrative, and Self by Joseph Ulatowski,Liezl van Zyl Pdf

Virtue, Narrative, and Self connects two philosophical areas of study that have long been treated as distinct: virtue theory and narrative accounts of personal identity. Chapters address several important issues and neglected themes at the intersection of these research areas. Specific examples include the role of narrative in the identification, differentiation, and cultivation of virtue, the nature of practical reasoning and moral competence, and the influence of life’s narrative structure on our conceptions of what it means to live and act well. This volume demonstrates how recent work from the philosophy of mind and action concerning narrativity and our understanding of the self can shed new light on questions about the nature of virtue, practical wisdom, and human flourishing. This book will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in virtue theory, moral philosophy, philosophy of mind and action, and moral education.

Author : Joel Marks
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000198164

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Reason and Ethics by Joel Marks Pdf

Reason and Ethics defends the theoretical claim that all values are subjective and the practical claim that human affairs can be conducted fruitfully in full awareness of this. Joel Marks goes beyond his previous work defending moral skepticism to question the existence of all objective values. This leads him to suggest a novel answer to the Companions in Guilt argument that the denial of morality would mean relinquishing rationality as well. Marks disarms the argument by conceding the irreality of both morality and logic, but is still able to rescue rationality while dispensing with morality on pragmatic grounds. He then offers a positive account of how life may be lived productively without recourse to attributions and assertions of right and wrong, good and bad, and even truth and falsity. Written in an accessible and engaging style, Reason and Ethics will be of interest to scholars and students working in metaethics as well as to the generally intellectually curious.

Author : Steve Coffman
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786485000

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Words of the Founding Fathers by Steve Coffman Pdf

This collection gathers quotations, passages and documents attributed to America's six essential founders. Topics include liberty, religion, revolution, republican government, the constitution, education, commerce, class, war and peace, and the disenfranchised (slaves, Native Americans and women). Each quotation is sourced and quoted fully enough for the reader to discern its historical and philosophical context.

Author : Benson John Lossing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : North America
ISBN : NYPL:33433061576603

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Our Country by Benson John Lossing Pdf

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1350 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Law
ISBN : HARVARD:32044116492893

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Congressional Record by United States. Congress Pdf

Author : John Clark Ridpath
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : United States
ISBN : UIUC:30112045996631

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A Popular History of the United States of America by John Clark Ridpath Pdf

Author : John Clark Ridpath
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : United States
ISBN : UIUC:30112045996623

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A Popular History of the United States of America, from the Aboriginal Times to the Present Day ... by John Clark Ridpath Pdf