Ethics And The Quest For Wisdom

Author : Robert Kane
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139490542

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Ethics and the Quest for Wisdom by Robert Kane Pdf

Modernity has challenged the ancient ideal of a universal quest for wisdom, and today's world of conflicting cultures and values has raised further doubts regarding the possibility of objective ethical standards. Robert Kane refocuses the debate on the philosophical quest for wisdom, and argues that ethical principles about right action and the good life can be seen to emerge from that very quest itself. This book contends that the search for wisdom involves a persistent striving to overcome narrowness of vision that comes from the inevitable limitations of finite points of view. When applied to questions of value and the good life, this striving has ethical implications about the way we should treat ourselves and others. This study argues for the merits of this central thesis against alternative theories in contemporary normative ethics, and discusses its practical applications for social ethics, political philosophy, law and moral education.

Author : Julian Savulescu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Ethics
ISBN : 0905740424

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In Quest of Ethical Wisdom by Julian Savulescu Pdf

Author : Louis F. Groarke,Paul V. Groarke,Paolo C. Biondi
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781770486782

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Readings in Ethics by Louis F. Groarke,Paul V. Groarke,Paolo C. Biondi Pdf

Readings in Ethics offers a vast collection of carefully edited readings arranged chronologically across five historical periods. The selections cover many major Western and non-Western schools of thought, including Daoism, virtue ethics, Buddhism, natural law, deontology, utilitarianism, contractarianism, liberalism, Marxism, feminism, and communitarianism. In addition to texts from canonical philosophers such as Plato, Mill, Wollstonecraft, and Rawls, the volume draws from other sources of wisdom: stories, fables, proverbs, medieval mystical treatises, literature, and poetry. The editors have also written substantial introductions, annotations, discussion questions, and suggestions for further reading, making for a thorough guided tour of our ethical past and present.

Author : Michel Dion
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030823559

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Worldviews, Ethics and Organizational Life by Michel Dion Pdf

This book provides an innovative way to revisit the depth and scope of our moral/post-moral worldviews, while undertaking an ontic reflection about organizational life. The ontic dimension of life refers to existing entities’ lived experiences. It has nothing to do with psychological and relational processes. The ontic level of analysis mirrors a philosophical outlook on organizational life. Unlike moral worldviews, post-moral worldviews oppose the existence of Truth-itself. Post-moral worldviews rather imply that dialogical relationships allow people to express their own truth-claims and welcome others’ truth-claims. The purpose of this book is to explain the philosophical implications of moral and post-moral worldviews and the way to move from a moral to a post-moral worldview. Moreover, this book explores the possibility to transcend the moral/post-moral dualism, through moral deliberation processes and a reinterpretation of the Presence of the Infinite in all dimensions of human life. This book could eventually help to better grasp the basic philosophical challenges behind ethical reflection about organizational issues.

Author : Adriaan Theodoor Peperzak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Meaning (Philosophy)
ISBN : 0823276961

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The Quest for Meaning by Adriaan Theodoor Peperzak Pdf

Adriaan Peperzak has for many years explored the connections between philosophy, ethics, religion and human experience. An expert on Hegel, Heidegger and Levinas, he here offers a gathering of influences on his own work as guides to uses of philosophy in our search for sense and meaning.

Author : Rick Anthony Furtak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Conduct of life
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114251007

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Wisdom in Love by Rick Anthony Furtak Pdf

"Rick Anthony Furtak's Wisdom in Love is a subtle and fascinating study of emotional rightness. Focusing on Kierkegaard's debt to and critique of ancient Stoic ideas of falsity in emotion, Furtak brings to the topic a flexible philosophical mind and a set of fresh and surprising insights. His scholarship will satisfy specialists, but his impressive literary style makes the book open to any reader who wants to reflect about the topic." --Martha Nussbaum, University of Chicago "In Wisdom in Love, Rick Anthony Furtak gives us a persuasive defense of love and deep concern, and shows how these lead toward a religious conception of emotion and value. Love and its companion emotions are placed within a picture of what is worthy, a view that makes sense of our perceptions of significance despite the pull of slants that see the world as devoid of anything that matters. It is a timely, important, and original contribution to moral philosophy." --Edward Mooney, Syracuse University "Furtak's voice in this book is extraordinary, for it combines the authentic presence of a human being searching for understanding, the rigorous enquiry of a philosopher investigating emotion and knowledge, and the lyrical sensitivity of a poet engaged in bringing experiences to light. It is a book brimming with wisdom and love." --John Hanwell Riker, author of Ethics and the Discovery of the Unconscious "This book will find an important place both in Kierkegaard scholarship and in a wider philosophical context. Furtak has read Kierkegaard extensively and well." --Alastair Hannay, University of Oslo In this historically informed work in moral psychology, Rick Anthony Furtak develops a conceptual account of the emotions that addresses the conventional idea that reason and emotion stand in sharp opposition. Furtak begins with a critical examination of the ancient Stoic position that emotions ought to be avoided by rational human beings. He argues that, on the contrary, emotions ought to be understood as embodying a kind of authentic insight, which enables us to attain a meaningful and truthful way of seeing the world. Furtak's positive alternative to Stoicism draws heavily on the writings of S�ren Kierkegaard, particularly Either/Or and Works of Love, while also engaging with a wide range of other relevant philosophical, literary, and religious sources. He argues that a morality of virtue and narrative awareness is necessary for accurate emotional perception, and then attempts to define a qualified value realism based upon a reverential trust in love as the ground of human life. The outcome of this inquiry into the possibility of reliable emotion is an account of the ideal state in which we could trust ourselves to be rational in being passionate. Rick Anthony Furtak is associate professor of philosophy at Colorado College.

Author : Trevor Curnow
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024332541

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Wisdom, Intuition and Ethics by Trevor Curnow Pdf

Putting forward a new case for ethical intuitionism, Trevor Curnow finds its roots in the wisdom traditions of antiquity, while also drawing on Eastern philosophy and modern psychology.

Author : Adriaan Peperzak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : PHILOSOPHY
ISBN : 0823296210

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The Quest For Meaning by Adriaan Peperzak Pdf

One of our most distinguished thinkers, Adriaan Peperzak has masterfully explored the connections between philosophy, ethics, religion, and the social and historical contexts of human experience. He offers a personal gathering of influences on his own work as guides to the uses of philosophy in our search for sense and meaning. In concise, direct, and deeply felt chapters, Peperzak moves from Plato, Plotinus, and the Early Christian theologians to Anselm, Bonaventure, Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, Hegel, and Levinas. Throughout these carefully linked essays, he touches on the fundamental ideas-from reason and faith to freedom and tradition-that inform the questions his work has consistently addressed, most specifically those concerning philosophy as a practice.

Author : David Lorimer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 191350476X

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Quest for Wisdom by David Lorimer Pdf

This wide-ranging volume of essays brings a contemporary perspective to the timeless questions concerned with the nature of life and death, meaning and purpose, and how we can live more harmoniously together, issues with which all thinking people are concerned and engaged.

Author : University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Law Emeritus Robert Kane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0197751407

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The Complex Tapestry of Free Will by University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Law Emeritus Robert Kane Pdf

Robert Kane is one of the most prominent contributors to debates on free will over the last 50 years. Here he discusses the evolution of his views since his 1996 volume The Significance of Free Will, and provides responses to some of the latest critical literature on them. He explains significant changes to his views on free will and related notions of moral responsibility, agency, and other related topics. He connects his ideas on free will to ethical thought, and to key ideas in the philosophy of religion. The volume is accessible to those not already familiar with the free will literature, while also developing novel and complex ideas on difficult subjects.

Author : Stanley J. Grenz
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830891054

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The Moral Quest by Stanley J. Grenz Pdf

Christianity Today Book of the Year What is ethics? Why should Christians care? Beginning with these basic questions, Stanley Grenz masterfully leads his readers into a theological engagement with moral inquiry. In The Moral Quest he sets forth the basics of ethics, considers the role and methods of Christian ethics in particular, and examines the ethical approaches of the Old Testament, the Gospels and Paul. He introduces the foundational theological ethics of Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, and Luther and the Reformers. And he concludes with an evenhanded discussion of modern and contemporary Christian ethicists, including Albert Ritschl, Walter Rauschenbusch, Karl Barth, James Gustafson, Paul Ramsey, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Martin Luther King Jr., Gustavo Gutiérrez, Rosemary Radford Ruether, Stanley Hauerwas, Carl F. H. Henry and Oliver O'Donovan. Clear, concise, and well apprised of relevant literature, Grenz (a theologian recognized for the excellence of his own theological and ethical work) provides in this book a first-rate introduction to Christian ethics. The Moral Quest will well serve students, pastors and interested laypersons alike.

Author : Christopher Browne Garnett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Ethics
ISBN : UCAL:$B121303

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Wisdom in Conduct by Christopher Browne Garnett Pdf

Author : Cristina Neesham,Markus Reihlen,Dennis Schoeneborn
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1072 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030766061

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Handbook of Philosophy of Management by Cristina Neesham,Markus Reihlen,Dennis Schoeneborn Pdf

The Handbook of Philosophy of Management addresses the philosophical foundations of management in theory and practice. It covers established branches of philosophy, such as aesthetics, epistemology, moral philosophy, political and social philosophy, philosophy of education, philosophy of practice, and philosophy of science. The Handbook’s broad scope maps out the field and provides a forum where philosophy can be meaningfully applied to the study of management in all its forms. The original, peer-reviewed research published here sheds new light on the complexities of management theory and practice, beyond what hitherto has been possible with the sole application of the social sciences. As philosophy provides a meta-framework for moving beyond paradigm fragmentation within management research and education, this allows researchers and practitioners to find harmony (and discord) in the perspectives revealed by a philosophical lens.

Author : Richard P. Mullin
Publisher : AllrOneofUs Publishing
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9798223493907

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Wisdom, Beauty, and Creativity by Richard P. Mullin Pdf

This work sums up a lifetime of teaching and living a philosophy that seeks wisdom, creativity, and beauty. Drawing upon poems, paintings, and examples from sports and fitness, the author invites us to see an ever-expanding and unexpected connectivity between things. A heightened awareness of love and friendship are also explored. You are invited on a journey with a challenge to delve into essential questions that can guide our lives.

Author : David Lorimer
Publisher : Aeon Books
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781913504779

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A Quest for Wisdom by David Lorimer Pdf

A Quest for Wisdom is a wide-ranging volume which brings together 25 of David Lorimer's highly acclaimed essays. Among the significant thinkers featured here are many who have shone their light on his path, and which can provide enriching nourishment for readers on their own life journeys. The essays explore philosophy, meaning and spirituality; consciousness, death and transformation; and responsibility, ethics and society. Perceptive and illuminating, they examine the nature of life and death, questions of meaning and purpose, and the challenge of how we can live more harmoniously together. David hopes that readers will be inspired, as Dr Albert Schweitzer put it, in our common task 'to become more finely and deeply human.'