Friendship Altruism And Morality Routledge Revivals

Author : Laurence A. Blum
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 46,5 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 : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:748996759

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Friendship, Altruism, and Morality by Lawrence A. Blum Pdf

Author : Laurence A. Blum
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135156213

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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 : Victor Seidler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135156084

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Kant, Respect and Injustice (Routledge Revivals) by Victor Seidler Pdf

In this work, originally published in 1986, Victor Seidler explores the different notions of respect, equality and dependency in Kant’s moral writings. He illuminates central tensions and contradictions not only within Kant’s moral philosophy, but within the thinking and feeling about human dignity and social inequality which we take very much for granted within a liberal moral culture. In challenging our assumption of the autonomy of morality, Seidler also questions our understanding of what it means for someone to live as a person in his or her own right. The autonomy of individuals cannot be assumed but has to be reasserted against relationships of subordination. This involves a break with a rationalist morality, so that respect for others involves respect for emotions, feelings, desires and needs, and establishes a fuller autonomy as a basis for freedom and justice.

Author : Victor Seidler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135156077

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Kant, Respect and Injustice (Routledge Revivals) by Victor Seidler Pdf

In this work, originally published in 1986, Victor Seidler explores the different notions of respect, equality and dependency in Kant’s moral writings. He illuminates central tensions and contradictions not only within Kant’s moral philosophy, but within the thinking and feeling about human dignity and social inequality which we take very much for granted within a liberal moral culture. In challenging our assumption of the autonomy of morality, Seidler also questions our understanding of what it means for someone to live as a person in his or her own right. The autonomy of individuals cannot be assumed but has to be reasserted against relationships of subordination. This involves a break with a rationalist morality, so that respect for others involves respect for emotions, feelings, desires and needs, and establishes a fuller autonomy as a basis for freedom and justice.

Author : Robert Roberts,Daniel Telech
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781786606037

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The Moral Psychology of Gratitude by Robert Roberts,Daniel Telech Pdf

This volume provides readers with the state-of-the-art in research on gratitude. It does so in the form of sixteen never-before published articles on the emotion by leading voices in philosophy and the sciences of the mind.

Author : Ralf J. Jox,Galia Assadi,Georg Marckmann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319164410

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Organ Transplantation in Times of Donor Shortage by Ralf J. Jox,Galia Assadi,Georg Marckmann Pdf

This book analyzes the reasons for organ shortage and ventures innovative ideas for approaching this problem. It presents 29 contributions from a highly interdisciplinary group of world experts and upcoming professionals in the field. Every year thousands of patients die while waiting for organ transplantation. Health authorities, medical professionals and bioethicists worldwide point to the urgent and yet unsolved problem of organ shortage, which will be even intensified due to the increasing life expectancy. Even though the practical problem seems to be well known, the search for suitable solutions continues and often restricts itself by being limited through disciplinary and national borders. Combining philosophical reflection with empirical results, this volume enables a unique insight in the ethics of organ transplantation and offers fresh ideas for policymakers, health care professionals, academics and the general public.

Author : Eric J. Silverman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781003812579

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Virtuous and Vicious Expressions of Partiality by Eric J. Silverman Pdf

This volume gathers essays from leading scholars to discuss partiality in ethics. The chapters examine the virtuous and vicious ways in which we relate to those close to us. There has long been a puzzle in ethics concerning the balance between our general moral obligations to everyone and our specific moral obligations to a smaller subset of people: our family, our nation, and our friends. There has been longstanding tension between the moral intuition that equality entails that we have the same moral duties to everyone and the moral intuition that special obligations entail that we have much greater duties to those close to us. The chapters in this volume discuss varying perspectives on partiality within a wide range of relationships. Section 1 offers overarching visions of partiality. Section 2 examines how roles and relationships might shape partiality. Section 3 focuses on the potential moral dangers and pitfalls of partiality. Finally, Section 4 looks at specific applications of partiality expressed as our loyalty to country, religion, sports teams, and employers. Virtuous and Vicious Expressions of Partiality will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in ethics, social and political philosophy, and philosophy of religion.

Author : Diane Jeske
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000619454

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The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Friendship by Diane Jeske Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Friendship is a superb compilation of chapters that explore the history, major topics, and controversies in philosophical work on friendship. It gives both the advanced scholar and the novice in the field an overview and also an in-depth exploration of the connections between friendship and the history of philosophy, morality, practical rationality, value theory, and interpersonal relationships more generally. The Handbook consists of 31 newly commissioned chapters by an international slate of contributors, and is divided into six sections: I. Historical Perspectives II. Who Can Be Our Friends? III. Friendship and Other Relationships IV. The Value and Rationality of Friendship V. Friendship, Morality, and Virtue VI. New Issues in Philosophy of Friendship This volume is essential reading not only for anyone interested in the philosophical questions involving friendship, but also for anyone interested in related topics such as love, sex, moral duties, the good life, the nature of rationality, interpersonal and interspecies relationships, and the nature of the person.

Author : Stephen Darwall
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198879589

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The Heart and its Attitudes by Stephen Darwall Pdf

Philosophers don't often write about the heart. At least, analytical philosophers don't. Why is this? Philosophers are said to live life ?in their heads? rather than ?from their hearts.? But even if that is so, why don't they think and write about the heart? Moreover, it can hardly have escaped philosophers' attention that matters of the heart are central to what we human beings value most about our lives, including our lives with animals. Philosophers write a lot about friendship and love, but they tend to do so in terms that leave out heartfelt connection. They speak rather of commitment to one another and each other's well-being, or taking each other as ends, or sharing deliberative standpoints or living life together, or a whole host of other topics, and much less about mutual emotional vulnerability and sharing and being in one another's hearts. Surely one explanation of philosophers' reticence is that talk of ?the heart? seems unavoidably metaphorical. It turns out to be easy enough, however, to cash the metaphor in if we simply take ?heart? refers to a cluster of emotional susceptibilities that have an essentially reciprocating structure. The heart aims at heartfelt connection-at shared experience of joys and sorrows, hopes and fears, and other personal emotions. We seek naturally to share these feelings with others and must suppress our natural tendencies if we wish to avoid doing so. Our heart's wish is to be open to other hearts in the hope that they will be open to ours, and thereby us, in return. This book is a systematic treatment-perhaps the first-of ?attitudes of the heart?-remorse (versus guilt), love, trust, gratitude, personal anger (versus righteous anger), jealousy, and others-and their role in mediating personal relationship, attachment, and connection. This is obviously interesting in its own right, but it also shows how heartfelt attitudes mirror more extensively studied ?reactive attitudes? of guilt, resentment, and blame (?attitudes of the will?). Whereas the latter mediate moral relations of mutual respect and accountability, attitudes of the heart are the currency of heartfelt connection and personal relationship.

Author : Virginia Held,Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Virginia Held
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
ISBN : 9780195180992

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The Ethics of Care by Virginia Held,Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Virginia Held Pdf

An exploration of the moral theory examines the characteristics of the ethics of care, discussing the feminist roots of this moral approach, what is meant by "care," and the potential of the ethics of care for dealing with social issues.

Author : Luciane Cruz Lopes,Cristiane De Cássia Bergamaschi,Silvio Barberato-Filho,Marcus Tolentino Silva,Brian Godman
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9782889660438

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New Horizons in Health-Promoting Technologies: From Development to Rational Use by Luciane Cruz Lopes,Cristiane De Cássia Bergamaschi,Silvio Barberato-Filho,Marcus Tolentino Silva,Brian Godman Pdf

This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact.

Author : Neera Kapur Badhwar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UOM:39015029528224

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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 : Louis P. Pojman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Ethics
ISBN : UCSC:32106013305047

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Ethical Theory by Louis P. Pojman Pdf

This reader contains 72 classical and contemporary articles organized around 13 crucial issues in ethical theory: the nature of ethics, ethical relativism, ethical egoism and evolutionary ethics, value, utilitarianism, deontological ethics, virtue ethics, the fact/value problem, moral realism and skepticism, morality and self-interest, ethics and religion, justice, and rights. The articles are arranged within a coherent, teachable framework in which presentation of each problem progresses from the classical to the contemporary, usually treating it in a dialectic (pro and con) format.

Author : Martha C. Nussbaum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1997-09-28
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015040594346

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Cultivating Humanity by Martha C. Nussbaum Pdf

How can higher education today create a community of critical thinkers and searchers for truth that transcends the boundaries of class, gender, and nation? Philosopher and classicist Martha C. Nussbaum takes up the challenge of conservative critics of academe to argue persuasively that sustained reform in the aim and content of liberal education is the most vital and invigorating force in higher education. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.