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Ethics: The Key Thinkers

Author : Tom Angier
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441151025

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Ethics: The Key Thinkers by Tom Angier Pdf

Ethics: The Key Thinkers surveys the history of Western moral philosophy, guiding students through the work and ideas of the field's most important figures, from Plato to MacIntyre. With entries written by leading contemporary scholars, the book covers the following thinkers: PlatoAristotleThe StoicsThomas AquinasDavid HumeImmanuel KantG.W.F. HegelKarl MarxJ.S. Mill Friedrich NietzscheAlasdair MacIntyre The book explores the contribution of each thinker in turn, narrating how they have changed the shape of ethical theory as a whole. The book also includes guides to the latest reading on each thinker.

Ethics: The Key Thinkers

Author : Tom Angier
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350107823

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Ethics: The Key Thinkers by Tom Angier Pdf

Ethics: The Key Thinkers introduces the individuals who have wrestled with core moral questions and shaped how we understand ethics today, from what constitutes a good life to arguments about what is right and wrong. Chapters are organised chronologically and cover figures from a wide range of traditions in ancient, modern and contemporary philosophy, explaining exactly how a particular individual has changed the development of ethical theory as a whole. Alongside chapters on Plato, Aristotle, Marx and Nietzsche, this fully updated 2nd edition now provides: · A global approach to the history of ethics, featuring new chapters on Confucian, Buddhist and African thinkers · Further reading guides to the latest writing on each thinker · A conclusion that looks ahead to new directions in contemporary ethical theory For anyone looking to better understand the ideas, people and debates behind one of philosophy's most important subjects, Ethics: The Key Thinkers is the ideal starting point.

Existentialist Thinkers and Ethics

Author : Christine Daigle
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780773531062

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Existentialist Thinkers and Ethics by Christine Daigle Pdf

Through examination of the thought of eight key figures in existentialism, this volume tackles the difficulties raised by an existentialist ethics and shows how each thinker successfully elaborated an ethics that provides a viable alternative to traditional ethical views.

Philosophy of Mind: The Key Thinkers

Author : Andrew Bailey
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441190963

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Philosophy of Mind: The Key Thinkers by Andrew Bailey Pdf

Exploring what great philosophers have written about the nature of thought and consciousness Philosophy of Mind: The Key Thinkers offers a comprehensive overview of this fascinating field. Thirteen specially commissioned essays, written by leading experts, introduce and explore the contributions of those philosophers who have shaped the subject and the central issues and arguments therein. The modern debate about the mind was shaped by Descartes in the seventeenth century, and then reshaped in the mid-twentieth century, and since, by exciting developments in science and philosophy. This book concentrates on the development of philosophical views on the mind since Descartes, offering coverage of the leading thinkers in the field including Husserl, Ryle, Lewis, Putnam, Fodor, Davidson, Dennett and the Churchlands. Crucially the book demonstrates how the ideas and arguments of these key thinkers have contributed to our understanding of the relationship between mind and brain. Ideal for undergraduate students, the book lays the necessary foundations for a complete and thorough understanding of this fascinating subject.

Thinkers and Theories in Ethics

Author : Britannica Educational Publishing
Publisher : Britannica Educational Publishing
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781615304158

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Thinkers and Theories in Ethics by Britannica Educational Publishing Pdf

Perspectives on moral behavior and ethical action are wide-ranging, and often involve divergent standards and approaches that produce ambiguous conclusions—yet we still arrive at universals. Echoes of Enlightenment and ancient Greek thinking resonate through the present day, and various thinkers have adapted the same ideas to respond to emerging social, cultural, political, and technological developments and new moral dilemmas. This volume surveys the major theories that form the basis of ethical thought. Sidebars and detailed images shed light on the vacillating world of ethics, and highlight the individuals whose seminal works confront some of our most fundamental human concerns.

Key Thinkers in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language

Author : Siobhan Chapman,Christopher Routledge
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0195187687

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Key Thinkers in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language by Siobhan Chapman,Christopher Routledge Pdf

A reference guide to the work of figures who have played an important role in the development of ideas about language. It includes 80 entries on individual thinkers in the Western tradition, ranging from antiquity to the present day, chosen because of their impact on the description or theory of language.

The Thinker's Guide to Ethical Reasoning

Author : Richard Paul,Linda Elder
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781538133781

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The Thinker's Guide to Ethical Reasoning by Richard Paul,Linda Elder Pdf

In The Thinker’s Guide to Ethical Reasoning, Richard Paul and Linda Elder present the vital role of ethics in the creation and ultimate success of cooperative societies. Independent of religious or cultural norms, ethical concepts promote sustainable advancement and offer a framework by which all people can not only coexist but prosper. Exploring the nature of ethical reasoning, the guide reveals the most common ways ethical reasoning becomes flawed and teaches readers how to avoid these flaws. It lays out the function of ethics and its main impediments, the social counterfeits of ethics, the elements of ethical reasoning, important ethical abilities and traits, a vocabulary of ethics, and intellectual standards essential to assessing ethical reasoning. As part of the Thinker’s Guide Library, this book advances the mission of the Foundation for Critical Thinking to promote fairminded critical societies through cultivating essential intellectual abilities and virtues across every field of study across world.

Epistemology: The Key Thinkers

Author : Stephen Hetherington,Stephen Cade Hetherington
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781441153968

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Epistemology: The Key Thinkers by Stephen Hetherington,Stephen Cade Hetherington Pdf

From Plato, through Descartes to W.V. Quine and Edmund Gettier, this concise introduction and reference guide explores the history of thinking about 'knowledge'.

Philosophy of Religion: The Key Thinkers

Author : Jeffrey J. Jordan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441126535

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Philosophy of Religion: The Key Thinkers by Jeffrey J. Jordan Pdf

Arguments concerning the existence and nature of God have been a staple of western philosophy for over 2,000 years. Philosophy of Religion: The Key Thinkers offers a comprehensive historical overview of this fascinating field. Nine specially commissioned essays introduce and explore the contributions of those philosophers who have shaped the subject and the central issues and arguments therein. The book reconstructs the history of the philosophy of religion, clearly illustrating the most important attempts to address such crucial issues as the ontological argument, the cosmological argument, the problem of evil, miracles, the moral argument, the design argument, religious experience and the idea of god. Thinkers covered include Anselm, Aquinas, Pascal, Hume, Kant, Paley and James. Crucially the book demonstrates why the ideas and arguments these key thinkers developed are still relevant in contemporary thought. Ideal for undergraduate students, the book lays the necessary foundations for a complete and thorough understanding of this fascinating subject.

Understand Ethics

Author : Mel Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-28
Category : Ethics
ISBN : 1444126075

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Understand Ethics by Mel Thompson Pdf

Understand Ethics is a straightforward guide to the main ethical theories and key thinkers.

Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment

Author : Joy A. Palmer,David E. Cooper,David Cooper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134756247

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Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment by Joy A. Palmer,David E. Cooper,David Cooper Pdf

Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment is a unique guide to environmental thinking through the ages. Joy A. Palmer, herself an important and prolific author on environmental matters, has assembled a team of thirty-five expert contributors to summarize and analyse the thinking of fifty diverse and stimulating figures – from all over the world and from ancient times to the present day. Among those included are: Philosophers such as Rousseau, Spinoza and Heidegger Activists such as Chico Mendes Literary giants such as Virgil, Goethe and Wordsworth Major religious and spiritual figures such as the Buddha and St Francis of Assisi. Lucid, scholarly and informative, these fifty essays offer a fascinating overview of mankind’s view and understanding of the physical world.

Key Thinkers in Social Science

Author : Jason L. Powell
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Social sciences
ISBN : 1628084537

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Key Thinkers in Social Science by Jason L. Powell Pdf

This book explores the relevance of key thinkers in social science from historical traditions to contemporary philosophers and the nature of modern society and how theories and concepts can be used to shed light on trends and inequalities around the world in which these thinkers lived. History is fast moving. The book attempts to explore the works of Weber, Durkheim, and Marx in the first three chapters to illustrate how their varieties of social science gave intimation about the social world in terms of social disorder and the remedies and actions needed to bring about social justice. The latter three chapters explore arguably the three most influential thinkers in social science of the 20th Century: Parsons, Foucault and Habermas. These thinkers in different ways gave a number of diagnoses of modern society. Some arguing for more balance between individuals and society as best regulated by institutions such as the family (Parsons), others argued for a more sophisticated understanding of power and how it plays out for social groups in modern society (Foucault) whilst for others critical social scientists should be focusing on defending the enlightenment ideals of reason and rationality as we go further into the 21st century. The book raises questions and provides many examples to stimulate thoughtful reflection about all our yesterdays, todays and tomorrows.

Ethics

Author : Alain Badiou
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781781680308

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Ethics by Alain Badiou Pdf

Alain Badiou, one of the most powerful voices in contemporary French philosophy, shows how our prevailing ethical principles serve ultimately to reinforce an ideology of the status quo and fail to provide a framework for an effective understanding of the concept of evil.

Judith Butler

Author : Elena Loizidou
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09
Category : Feminist theory
ISBN : 1845680634

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Judith Butler by Elena Loizidou Pdf

It is undisputed that Judith Butler is the philosopher who invited us to think and imagine the subject as the effect of gender processes and practices. Over the last twenty years critical legal scholarship engaged either overtly or covertly with the question of the legal subject. And in this book, Elena Loizidou takes up Judith Butler's work as a reading of how the legal subject is formed. The most dominant notion of the legal subject within critical legal studies is one that is primarily pre-political, a-historical and spirit. As Loizidou argues, however, Butler returns this notion of the legal subject to its materiality and its embodiment; challenging legal scholarship to re-think its understanding of the subject and of its effects.

Ethics and Moral Philosophy

Author : David Mills Daniel,Dafydd Mills Daniel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-01
Category : Ethics
ISBN : 0334041716

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Ethics and Moral Philosophy by David Mills Daniel,Dafydd Mills Daniel Pdf

Introducing the discipline of religious ethics and moral decision-making in general, this title then proceeds to introduce the major concepts, key thinkers and schools of thought including Natural Law, Empiricism, Virtue Ethics and Consequentialism. It is suitable for students studying ethics and moral philosophy at AS/A2 level.