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Author : Vernon Joseph Bourke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Ethics
ISBN : 0975366254
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Author : Alasdair C. MacIntyre
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9780415173988
Widely acknowledged to be the perfect introduction to the subject, this important text presents in concise form an insightful yet exceptionally complete history of moral philosophy in the West, from the Greeks to contemporary times.
Author : Daniel Star,Roger Crisp
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781405193887
Is there an objective moral standard that applies to all our actions? To what extent should I sacrifice my own interests for the sake of others? How might philosophers of the past help us think about contemporary ethical problems? As the most recent addition to the Blackwell Readings in Philosophy series, History of Ethics: Essential Readings with Commentary brings together rich and varied excerpts of canonical work and contemporary scholarship to span the history of Western moral philosophy in one volume. Editors Star and Crisp, noted scholars in their fields, expertly introduce the readings to illuminate the main philosophical ideas and arguments in each selection, and connect them to broader themes. These detailed and incisive editorial commentaries make the primary source texts accessible to students while guiding them chronologically through the history of Western ethics. Structured around a thematic table of contents divided into three distinct sections, History of Ethics charts patterns in the development of ethical thought across time to highlight connections between intellectual movements. Selections range from the work of well-known figures such as Plato, Aristotle, Nietzsche, and Mill to the work of philosophers often overlooked by such anthologies, including Butler, Smith, Sidgwick, Anscombe, Foot, and Frankena. Star and Crisp skillfully arrange the collection to connect readings to contemporary issues and interests by featuring examples such as Aquinas on self-defense and the doctrine of double effect, Kant on virtue, and Mill’s The Subjection of Women. Written for students and scholars of ethics, History of Ethics is a comprehensive collection of readings with expert editorial commentary that curates the most important and influential work in the history of ethics in the Western world.
Author : Terence Irwin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192597816
What is the human good? What are the primary virtues that make a good person? What makes an action right? Must we try to maximize good consequences? How can we know what is right and good? Can morality be rationally justified? In Ethics Through History, Terence Irwin addresses such fundamental questions, making these central debates intelligible to readers without an extensive background in philosophy. He provides a historical and philosophical discussion of major questions and key philosophers in the history of ethics, in the tradition that begins with Socrates onwards. Irwin covers ancient, medieval, and modern moral philosophers whose views have helped to form the agenda for contemporary ethical theory, paying attention to the strengths and weaknesses of their respective positions.
Author : Roger Crisp
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191655760
Philosophical ethics consists in the human endeavour to answer rationally the fundamental question of how we should live. The Oxford Handbook of the History of Ethics explores the history of philosophical ethics in the western tradition from Homer until the present day. It provides a broad overview of the views of many of the main thinkers, schools, and periods, and includes in addition essays on topics such as autonomy and impartiality. The authors are international leaders in their field, and use their expertise and specialist knowledge to illuminate the relevance of their work to discussions in contemporary ethics. The essays are specially written for this volume, and in each case introduce the reader to the main lines of interpretation and criticism that have arisen in the professional history of philosophy over the past two or three decades.
Author : Steven M. Cahn,Peter J. Markie
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Ethics
ISBN : 0199797269
Ethics: History, Theory, and Contemporary Issues, Fifth Edition, features sixty-nine selections organized into three parts, providing instructors with great flexibility in designing and teaching a variety of courses in moral philosophy. Spanning 2,500 years of ethical theory, the first part, Historical Sources, ranges from ancient Greece to the twentieth century. It moves from classical thought through medieval views to modern theories, culminating with leading nineteenth- and twentieth-century thinkers. The second part, Modern Ethical Theory, includes many of the most important essays of the past century. The discussion of utilitarianism, Kantianism, egoism, and relativism continues in the work of major contemporary philosophers, while landmark selections reflect concern with moral language and the justification of morality. The concepts of duty, justice, and rights are explored, as well as recent views on cultural relativism and an ethic influenced by feminist concerns. In the third part, Contemporary Moral Problems, the readings present the current debates over abortion, euthanasia, famine relief, animal rights, environmentalism, and the use of torture in interrogations, as well as essays on death and the meaning of life. Wherever possible, each reading is printed in its entirety. The fifth edition features new readings from Cicero, Barbara Herman, and Judith Jarvis Thomson; an expanded selection from Joseph Butler's Fifteen Sermons; and a new translation of Kant's Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Mor
Author : Jerome B. Schneewind
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 052147938X
This remarkable book is the most comprehensive study ever written of the history of moral philosophy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Its aim is to set Kant's still influential ethics in its historical context by showing in detail what the central questions in moral philosophy were for him and how he arrived at his own distinctive ethical views. The book is organised into four main sections, each exploring moral philosophy by discussing the work of many influential philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In an epilogue the author discusses Kant's view of his own historicity, and of the aims of moral philosophy. In its range, in its analyses of many philosophers not discussed elsewhere, and in revealing the subtle interweaving of religious and political thought with moral philosophy, this is an unprecedented account of the evolution of Kant's ethics.
Author : Steven M. Cahn,Peter J. Markie
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10
Category : Ethics
ISBN : 0190949562
"Ethics: History, Theory, and Contemporary Issues, Seventh Edition, is the most comprehensive anthology on ethics, featuring sixty-three selections organized into three parts and providing instructors with the greatest flexibility in designing and teaching a variety of introduction to ethics courses. Spanning 2,500 years of ethical theory, the first part, Historical Sources, ranges from ancient Greece to the twentieth century. It moves from classical thought through medieval views to modern theories, culminating with leading nineteenth- and twentieth-century thinkers. The second part, Modern Ethical Theory, includes many of the most important essays of the past century. The discussion of utilitarianism, Kantianism, egoism, and relativism continues in the work of major contemporary philosophers, while landmark selections reflect concern with moral language and the justification of morality. The concepts of duty, justice, and rights are explored, as well as recent views on cultural relativism and an ethic influenced by feminist concerns. In the third part, Contemporary Moral Issues, the readings present the current debates over abortion, euthanasia, famine relief, animal rights, environmentalism, the use of torture in interrogations, death, and the meaning of life. Wherever possible, each reading is printed in its entirety. An ARC for both students and instructors will accompany the text. The Instructor side will include items such as PowerPoint lecture outlines, reading summaries, essay questions, and sample syllabi. Student side will feature student self-test questions, suggested readings, and helpful web links"--
Author : Daniel R. DeNicola
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781460406601
Moral Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction is a compact yet comprehensive book offering an explication and critique of the major theories that have shaped philosophical ethics. Engaging with both historical and contemporary figures, this book explores the scope, limits, and requirements of morality. DeNicola traces our various attempts to ground morality: in nature, in religion, in culture, in social contracts, and in aspects of the human person such as reason, emotions, caring, and intuition.
Author : Reginald Rogers
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1501077465
REGINALD A. P. ROGERS has written an excellent little book which is likely to prove exceedingly useful to students entering on the study of ethics. The proper function of such a work is to be supplementary to the reading of some of the ethical philosophers, and it ought in no case to take the place of a first-hand acquaintance with the sources. If employed in this way, this Short History will be found valuable in furnishing a general conspectus of the subject, and in bringing out the points of connection and contrast between ethical systems, ancient and modern. It is natural to compare Mr. Rogers's book with another on the same theme (Outlines of the History of Ethics) by the late Professor Sidgwick, issued by the same publishers, at the same price, some twenty-five years ago. Professor Sidgwick's work is of course very clear and correct, and it is fuller than the present volume. But in Mr. Rogers's work the cardinal points stand out in better relief, and a young student will find it easier to grasp and remember than Professor Sidgwick's. Mr. Rogers confines himself to Greek and Modern Ethics, and passes over Christianity and the mediaeval period. On the whole we regret that his plan did not include a short sketch of Christian and of Mediaeval Ethics; for it would have made his history more complete, and enabled the reader to understand better the transition from Greek to Modern Ethics. Over the ground which he covers Mr. Rogers is always a competent and reliable guide. His expositions are lucid and accurate, and his criticisms are fair and acute. Indeed if one were to pass judgment on Mr. Rogers's book, it would rather be for faults of omission than commission. It might for instance have been worthwhile to show more in detail the great debt of Aristotle to the ethics of Plato. In the department of Modern Ethics Mr. Rogers deals very effectively with Hobbes, Butler, the Utilitarians, and Kant. Of Kant's ethical theory he justly remarks: "But logical consistency was achieved at the expense of identifying the essence of the true self with a purely formal reason, and of regarding feelings and desires as merely transitory accidents of self-consciousness." The history of Modern Ethics includes an account of the theories of Green, Spencer, and Sidgwick. Green's views receive little or no criticism, and the author might at least have made the student aware of certain difficulties and objections which have been raised. One would have been glad if the excellent treatment of these writers had been supplemented by some notice of the ethical theory of Dr Martineau in its relation to the theories of Butler, Hutcheson, and Kant. Mr. Rogers's book may be cordially recommended as a very sound and trustworthy guide to the subject. On p. 91 the sentence beginning "It is true" should be "Is it true": as it stands the meaning is exactly the opposite of what the author intends. Nor does it seem correct to say (p. 216) that Fichte held that particular self-consciousness is the final reality. -Review of Theology & Philosophy, Volume 7
Author : Thomas Verner Moore
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1020312157
This introduction to ethical philosophy provides a historical overview of the development of ethical thought, from ancient Greece through the modern era. The book includes discussions of key philosophers and ethical theories, as well as contemporary ethical issues. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Lisa Rasmussen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781402038204
Section I examines historical philosophical understandings of expertise in order to situate the current institution of bioethics. Section II focuses on philosophical analyses of the concept of expertise, asking, among other things, how it should be understood, how it can be acquired, and what such expertise warrants. Finally, section III addresses topics in bioethics and how ethics expertise should or should not be brought to bear in these areas, including expertise in the court room, in the hospital room, in the media, and in making policy. 2. A GUIDED HISTORICAL TOUR As Scott LaBarge points out, Plato’s dialogues can be viewed as an extended treatment of the concept of moral expertise, so it is fitting to begin the volume with an examination of “Socrates and Moral Expertise”. Given Socrates’ protestations (the Oracle at Delphi notwithstanding) that he knows nothing, LaBarge observes that it would be interesting to determine both what a Socratic theory of moral expertise might be and whether Socrates qualified as such an expert. Plato’s model of moral expertise is what LaBarge calls “demonstrable expertise”, which is concerned mainly with the ability to attain a goal and to explain how one did it. The problem with this account is that when one tries to solve the various problems in the model – for example, allowing that moral expertise is not an all-or-nothing skill – then one is immediately faced with the “credentials problem”. As LaBarge puts it, “. . .
Author : Terence Irwin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 911 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199693862
The Development of Ethics is a selective historical and critical study of moral philosophy in the Socratic tradition, with special attention to Aristotelian naturalism. It discusses the main topics of moral philosophy as they have developed historically, including: the human good, human nature, justice, friendship, and morality; the methods of moral inquiry; the virtues and their connexions; will, freedom, and responsibility; reason and emotion;relativism, subjectivism, and realism; the theological aspect of morality. This volume examines early modern moral philosophy from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. Volume 3 will continue the story up to Rawls's Theory of Justice. The present volume begins with Suarez's interpretation of Scholasticmoral philosophy, and examines seventeenth- and eighteenth- century responses to the Scholastic outlook, to see how far they constitute a distinctively different conception of moral philosophy. The treatments of natural law by Grotius, Hobbes, Cumberland, and Pufendorf are treated in some detail. Disputes about moral facts, moral judgments, and moral motivation, are traced through Cudworth, Clarke, Balguy, Hutcheson, Hume, Price, and Reid. Butler's defence of a naturalist account of morality isexamined and compared with the Aristotelian and Scholastic views discussed in Volume 1. The volume ends with a survey of the persistence of voluntarism in English moral philosophy, and a brief discussion of the contrasts and connexions between Rousseau and earlier views on natural law.The emphasis of the book is not purely descriptive, narrative, or exegetical, but also philosophical. Irwin discusses the comparative merits of different views, the difficulties that they raise, and how some of the difficulties might be resolved. The book tries to present the leading moral philosophers of the past as participants in a rational discussion that is still being carried on, and tries to help the reader to participate in this discussion.
Author : Anthony O'Hear
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004-11-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521603263
Collection of original essays by leading researchers on current approaches to moral philosophy.
Author : Michael Slote
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780195391558
Michael Slote collects his essays that deal with aspects of both ancient & modern ethical thought & seek to point out conceptual/normative comparisons & contrasts among different views. The relationship between ancient ethical theory & modern moral philosophy is a major theme of several of the papers.