Friendship Altruism And Morality

Author : Laurence A. Blum
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781135156220

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Friendship, Altruism and Morality (Routledge Revivals) by Laurence A. Blum Pdf

Friendship, Altruism, and Morality, originally published in 1980, gives an account of "altruistic emotions" (compassion, sympathy, concern) and friendship that brings out their moral value. Blum argues that moral theories centered on rationality, universal principle, obligation, and impersonality cannot capture this moral importance. This was one of the first books in contemporary moral philosophy to emphasize the moral significance of emotions, to deal with friendship as a moral phenomenon, and to challenge the rationalism of standard interpretations of Kant, although Blum’s "sentimentalism" owes more to Schopenhauer than to Hume. It was a forerunner to care ethics, and feminist ethics more generally; to virtue ethics; and to subsequent influential interpretations of Kant that attempted to room for altruistic emotion and friendship, and other forms of particularism and partialism. In addition, the work has been widely influential in religious studies, political theory, bioethics, and feminist ethics.

Author : Lawrence A. Blum
Publisher : Routledge Kegan & Paul
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Altruism
ISBN : 0710093322

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Friendship, Altruism and Morality by Lawrence A. Blum Pdf

Author : Gerald F. Gaus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1990-07-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521397332

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Value and Justification by Gerald F. Gaus Pdf

Rational moral action can neither be seen as a way of maximising personal values, nor derived from reason independent of them is this study's assertion. It contends that commitment to the moral point of view is presupposed by value systems.Rational moral action can neither be seen as a way of maximising personal values, nor derived from reason independent of them is this study's assertion. It contends that commitment to the moral point of view is presupposed by value systems.

Author : Lawrence A. Blum
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1994-01-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521436192

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Moral Perception and Particularity by Lawrence A. Blum Pdf

This collection of Laurence Blum's essays examines the moral import of emotion, motivation, judgement, perception, and group identifications.

Author : Neera Kapur Badhwar
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1993-04-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781501741104

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Friendship by Neera Kapur Badhwar Pdf

Recent years have seen a marked revival of interest among philosophers in the topic of friendship. This collection of fifteen articles is the first to make some of the best recent work on friendship readily accessible. The book is divided into three sections. The first centers on the nature of friendship, the difference between friendship and other personal loves, and the importance of friendship in the individual's life. The second section discusses the moral significance of friendship and the response of various ethical theories and theorists (Aristotelian, Christian, Kantian, and consequentialist) to the phenomenon of friendship. The last section deals with the importance of personal and civic friendship in a good society. Badhwar's introduction is a comprehensive critical discussion of the issues raised by the essays: it relates them to each other, as well as to historical and contemporary discussions not included in the anthology, thus providing the reader with an integrated overview of the essays and their place in the larger philosophical picture.

Author : Gregory Mellema
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Ethics
ISBN : 9042017422

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The Expectations of Morality by Gregory Mellema Pdf

Moral expectation is a concept with which all of us are well acquainted. Already as children we learn that certain courses of action are expected of us. We are expected to perform certain actions, and we are expected to refrain from other actions. Furthermore, we learn that something is morally wrong with the failure to do what we are morally expected to do. A central theme of this book is that moral expectation should not be confused with moral obligation. While we are morally expected to do everything we are obligated to do, a person can be morally expected to do some things that he or she is not morally obligated to do. Although moral expectation is a familiar notion, it has not been the object of investigation in its own right. In the early chapters Mellema attempts to provide a philosophical account of this familiar notion, distinguish it from other types of expectations, and show how it is possible to form false moral expectations. Subsequent chapters explore the role of moral expectation in agreements between people, analyze ways that people avoid moral expectation, illustrate how groups can have moral expectations, and view moral expectation in the context of our relationship with divine beings. The final chapter provides insight into how moral expectation operates in people's professional lives.

Author : Troy A. Jollimore
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135724221

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Friendship and Agent-Relative Morality by Troy A. Jollimore Pdf

First Published in 2001. Morality is viewed as a demanding and unsympathetic taskmaster, and as an external, foreign, even alien force. The moral life, on such a view, is a labor not of love, but of duty. One of the guiding intuitions of this book is that this picture of morality is deeply and pervasively wrong. Morality is not an external or alien force and is not at all disconnected from the agent’s values, or from her good. Indeed, what is morally required of an agent will/depend a great deal on, and will thus reflect, that agent’s values, commitments, and relationships.

Author : Laurence Thomas
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0877226024

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Living Morally by Laurence Thomas Pdf

Author : Paul J. Wadell C.P.
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1990-11-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780268096793

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Friendship and the Moral Life by Paul J. Wadell C.P. Pdf

Friendship and the Moral Life is not simply a theoretical argument about how moral theology might be done if it took friendship more seriously. Rather, the book exhibits how without friendship, our lives are morally not worth living. The book begins with a consideration of why a new model of the moral life is needed. Wadell then examines the ethics of Aristotle, who viewed the moral life as based on a specific understanding of the purpose of being human, with friendship being an important factor in enabling people to acquire virtues necessary for achieving this purpose. Through the thought of Augustine, Aelred of Reivaulx, and Karl Barth, the question is raised whether friendship is at odds with Christian love or whether their relation depends on one's narrative account of friendship. Thomas Aquinas' understanding of charity as friendship with God is examined to clarify this relationship. By locating friendship within the story of God's redemption through Christ, Wadell helps us see why friendship properly understood is integral to the Christian life and not at odds with it. Such a friendship draws us to love all others who seek God and teaches us not to restrict our concern to a special few in preferential love. The book closes by investigating how friendship as a model for the moral life might work in everyday life.

Author : Garrett Cullity
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199204151

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The Moral Demands of Affluence by Garrett Cullity Pdf

Given that there is a forceful case for thinking that the affluent are morally required to devote a substantial proportion of what they have to helping the poor, Garrett Cullity examines, refines and defends an argument of this form. He then identifies its limits.

Author : Lawrence C. Becker,Charlotte B. Becker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2016 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135350963

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Encyclopedia of Ethics by Lawrence C. Becker,Charlotte B. Becker Pdf

The editors, working with a team of 325 renowned authorities in the field of ethics, have revised, expanded and updated this classic encyclopedia. Along with the addition of 150 new entries, all of the original articles have been newly peer-reviewed and revised, bibliographies have been updated throughout, and the overall design of the work has been enhanced for easier access to cross-references and other reference features. New entries include * Cheating * Dirty hands * Gay ethics * Holocaust * Journalism * Political correctness * and many more.

Author : Colin Grant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2000-11-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781139430210

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Altruism and Christian Ethics by Colin Grant Pdf

Separated from its anchorage in religion, ethics has followed the social sciences in seeing human beings as fundamentally characterised by self-interest, so that altruism is either naively idealistic or arrogantly self-sufficient. Colin Grant contends that, as a modern secular concept, altruism is a parody on the self-giving love of Christianity, so that its dismissal represents a social levelling that loses the depths that theology makes intelligible and religion makes possible. The Christian affirmation is that God is characterised by self-giving love (agape), then expected of Christians. Lacking this theological background, the focus on self-interest in sociobiology and economics, and on human realism in the political focus of John Rawls or the feminist sociability of Carol Gilligan, finds altruism naive or a dangerous distraction from real possibilities of mutual support. This book argues that to dispense with altruism is to dispense with God and with the divine transformation of human possibilities.

Author : James O. Grunebaum
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791486870

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Friendship by James O. Grunebaum Pdf

In Friendship, James O. Grunebaum introduces a new conceptual framework to articulate, explain, and understand similarities and differences between various conceptions of friendship. Asking whether special preference for friends is morally justified, Grunebaum answers that question by analyzing a comprehensive comparison of not only Aristotle's three well-known kinds of friendship—pleasure, utility, and virtue—but also a variety of lesser-known friendship conceptions from Kant, C. S. Lewis, and Montaigne. The book clarifies differences about how friends ought to behave toward each other and how these differences are, in part, what separate the various conceptions of friendship.

Author : Justin Oakley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000068337

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Morality and the Emotions by Justin Oakley Pdf

Originally published in 1992 this book attacks many recent philosophical and psychological theories of the emotions and argues that our emotions themselves have intrinsic moral significance. He demonstrates that a proper understanding of the emotions reveals the fundamental role they play in our moral lives and the practical consequences that arise from being morally responsible for our emotions.

Author : Niall Scott,Jonathan Seglow
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780335235261

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Altruism by Niall Scott,Jonathan Seglow Pdf

"A discussion of altruism, drawing on different disiplinary perspectives, could hardly be more timely, and this book is a thoughtful and insightful contribution to the debate." Ruth Chadwick - Distinguished Research Professor and Director, Cardiff University What motivates us to be altruistic? How did an altruistic trait evolve in humans, given that evolutionary theory assumes we are self-interested? What sorts of people are altruistic and in what circumstances? Is the welfare state a channel for altruism or does it crowd out people’s altruistic motivations? This accessible book is the first introduction to the idea of altruism. It explores how we have come to be altruistic, and considers why it is important to remain altruistic, not just for the sake of others, but in order maintain the fragile fabric of human society. The book surveys the history of the concept of altruism and examines it from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including moral philosophy, evolutionary biology, psychology, economics and political science. It then attempts to bring together the distinct issues and concerns of these disciplines to arrive at a unified understanding of altruism. The rational self-interested individual of economics is compared with the altruist who exhibits the virtues of empathy, compassion and benevolence. The book also discusses heroic altruism, such as that displayed by rescuers of Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe, and psychological experiments which seek to identify the altruistic trait. Scott and Seglow argue that altruism is easily extinguished and hard to nourish, but vital for a fundamentally human future. Academics and students in social sciences and philosophy will find Altruism of great interest. So too will professionals in the voluntary and charitable sectors and journalists involved in communicating social scientific and philosophical ideas to the public.