Justifying Ethics

Author : Jan Gorecki
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351510332

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Justifying Ethics by Jan Gorecki Pdf

"Human rights include individual rights against government oppression, such as the right to freedom of thought, religion, speech, assembly, and to a fair system of criminal justice. But even in this basic political sense, ""human rights"" means different things in different historical and cultural contexts and advocacy of such rights has frequently been viewed as subjective. Justifying Ethics offers a thorough critique of the most common attempts to formulate objective standards through appeals to human nature, religion, and reason. Gorecki opens his inquiry by considering the role of norm-making concepts in the history of ethical thought: how standards of rights were claimed to conform to human nature and reason or have been stipulated by an external authoritative source such as God or social contracts. He then shows how such justifications may be discounted on analytical or practical grounds using such examples as divine will, Kantian reason, and the truth value of moral judgments. With respect to empirically grounded appeals to human nature, Gorecki argues against the notion that the innate plasticity of human behavior and potential for social diversity is sufficient grounds for human rights activity without objective justification. The search for justification remains essential in enhancing the persuasiveness of ethical action that aims at the moral ""contagion"" of the people by the human rights experience and the transition from moral acceptance to legal implementation.Broad in intellectual scope, Justifying Ethics draws upon moral and political philosophy, social policy, psychology, history, jurisprudence, and international law to clarify the prerequisites for the success of human rights activity. The book will be of special interest to political theorists, philosophers, sociologists, and human rights activists."

Author : Carl Wellman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UCAL:B3929507

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Challenge and Response by Carl Wellman Pdf

Mr. Wellman's highly original contribution to the relatively new field of justification in ethics consists of characterizing the different ways in which ethical statements can be challenged and showing how each sort of challenge can be met by an appropriate response, enabling reasonable men to appropriately discuss or reflect on ethical issues. In developing his unique, systematic, methodology of ethics, Mr. Wellman has, first, rigorously reviewed and refuted the main arguments for the view of the nature of all reasoning as deductive and, second, convincingly presented arguments for the existence of nondeductive evidences in ethics. Mr. Wellman's broad definition of reasoning and his rejection of the identification of justification with reasoning reveals new dimensions of justification which will have wide implications in other areas of human speculation.

Author : Lawrence C. Becker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317703273

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On Justifying Moral Judgements (Routledge Revivals) by Lawrence C. Becker Pdf

Much discussion of morality presupposes that moral judgments are always, at bottom, arbitrary. Moral scepticism, or at least moral relativism, has become common currency among the liberally educated. This remains the case even while political crises become intractable, and it is increasingly apparent that the scope of public policy formulated with no reference to moral justification is extremely limited. The thesis of On Justifying Moral Judgments insists, on the contrary, that rigorous justifications are possible for moral judgments. Crucially, Becker argues for the coordination of the three main approaches to moral theory: axiology, deontology, and agent morality. A pluralistic account of the concept of value is expounded, and a solution to the problem of ultimate justification is suggested. Analyses of valuation, evaluation, the ‘is-ought’ issue, and the concepts of obligation, responsibility and the good person are all incorporated into the main line of argument.

Author : J. Hermann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137447180

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On Moral Certainty, Justification and Practice by J. Hermann Pdf

Taking inspiration from the later Wittgenstein, On Moral Certainty, Justification and Practice explores the practical basis of human morality. It offers an account of moral certainty, which it links with a view of moral competence. Drawing on everyday examples, it is shown how morality is grounded in action, not in reasoning.

Author : Maureen Sie
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004493421

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Justifying Blame by Maureen Sie Pdf

This book shows why we can justify blaming people for their wrong actions even if free will turns out not to exist. Contrary to most contemporary thinking, we do this by focusing on the ordinary, everyday wrongs each of us commits, not on the extra-ordinary, “morally monstrous-like” crimes and weak-willed actions of some.

Author : Lawrence C. Becker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Ethics
ISBN : 0391002716

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On Justifying Moral Judgments by Lawrence C. Becker Pdf

Author : Owen Ware
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192589811

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Kant's Justification of Ethics by Owen Ware Pdf

Kant's arguments for the reality of human freedom and the normativity of the moral law continue to inspire work in contemporary moral philosophy. Many prominent ethicists invoke Kant, directly or indirectly, in their efforts to derive the authority of moral requirements from a more basic conception of action, agency, or rationality. But many commentators have detected a deep rift between the Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals and the Critique of Practical Reason, leaving Kant's project of justification exposed to conflicting assessments and interpretations. In this ground-breaking study of Kant, Owen Ware defends the controversial view that Kant's mature writings on ethics share a unified commitment to the moral law's primacy. Using both close analysis and historical contextualization, Owen Ware overturns a paradigmatic way of reading Kant's arguments for morality and freedom, situating them within Kant's critical methodology at large. The result is a novel understanding of Kant that challenges much of what goes under the banner of Kantian arguments for moral normativity today.

Author : Bernard Gert
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Ethics
ISBN : 9780195122565

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Morality by Bernard Gert Pdf

In this final revision of the classic work, the author has produced the fullest and most sophisticated account of this influential theoretical model. Here, he makes clear that morality is an informal system that does not provide unique answers to every moral question but does always limit the range of morally acceptable options, and so explains why some moral disagreements cannot be resolved. The importance placed on the moral ideals also makes clear that the moral rules are only one part of the moral system. A chapter that is devoted to justifying violations of the rules illustrates how the moral rules are embedded in the system and cannot be adequately understood independently of it. The chapter on reasons includes a new account of what makes one reason better than another and elucidates the complex hybrid nature of rationality.

Author : Norman Daniels
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1996-09-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 052146711X

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Justice and Justification by Norman Daniels Pdf

We all have beliefs, even strong convictions, about what is just and fair in our social arrangements. How should these beliefs and the theories of justice that incorporate them guide our thinking about practical matters of justice? This wide-ranging collection of essays by one of the foremost medical ethicists in the United States explores the claim that justification in ethics, whether concerning matters of theory or practice, involves achieving coherence or "reflective equilibrium" (as Rawls has called it) between our moral and nonmoral beliefs. Among the practical issues the volume addresses are the design of health-care institutions, the distribution of goods between the old and the young, and fairness in hiring and firing practices. In combining ethical theory and practical ethics this volume will prove especially valuable to philosophers concerned with ethics and applied ethics, political theorists, bioethicists, and others involved in the study of public policy.

Author : OWEN. WARE,Owen Ware
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198849933

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Kant's Justification of Ethics by OWEN. WARE,Owen Ware Pdf

Kant's arguments for the reality of human freedom and the normativity of the moral law continue to inspire work in contemporary moral philosophy. In this ground-breaking study, Owen Ware defends the controversial view that Kant's mature writings on ethics share a unified commitment to the primacy of the moral law.

Author : D. W. Haslett
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0874133149

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Equal Consideration by D. W. Haslett Pdf

This book presents a comprehensive method for justifying norms of morality and proposes a system by which people's conflicting moral intuitions can be adjudicated. It is based on giving each individual's interests equal consideration and as developed is applicable to norms of all social values.

Author : Vladimir Soloviev,Prof. William von Peters
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781329698925

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The Justification of The Good by Vladimir Soloviev,Prof. William von Peters Pdf

This is Vladimir Soloviev's great work on moral theology, and demonstrates why the Good is man's highest goal. He traces the history of good within society through to Christian Good, which comes from God. Soloviev provides answers to many questions on morals, society, punishment, the good life, and more that one rarely sees in our day.

Author : J. Hermann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137447180

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On Moral Certainty, Justification and Practice by J. Hermann Pdf

Taking inspiration from the later Wittgenstein, On Moral Certainty, Justification and Practice explores the practical basis of human morality. It offers an account of moral certainty, which it links with a view of moral competence. Drawing on everyday examples, it is shown how morality is grounded in action, not in reasoning.

Author : Antony Lamb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136255427

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Ethics and the Laws of War by Antony Lamb Pdf

This book is an examination of the permissions, prohibitions and obligations found in just war theory, and the moral grounds for laws concerning war. Pronouncing an action or course of actions to be prohibited, permitted or obligatory by just war theory does not thereby establish the moral grounds of that prohibition, permission or obligation; nor does such a pronouncement have sufficient persuasive force to govern actions in the public arena. So what are the moral grounds of laws concerning war, and what ought these laws to be? Adopting the distinction between jus ad bellum and jus in bello, the author argues that rules governing conduct in war can be morally grounded in a form of rule-consequentialism of negative duties. Looking towards the public rules, the book argues for a new interpretation of existing laws, and in some cases the implementation of completely new laws. These include recognising rights of encompassing groups to necessary self-defence; recognising a duty to rescue; and considering all persons neither in uniform nor bearing arms as civilians and therefore fully immune from attack, thus ruling out ‘targeted’ or ‘named’ killings. This book will be of much interest to students of just war theory, ethics of war, international law, peace and conflict studies, and Security Studies/IR in general.

Author : Douglas Odegard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Ethics
ISBN : UCSC:32106008995224

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Ethics and Justification by Douglas Odegard Pdf