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Kantian Ethics Almost without Apology

Author : Marcia W. Baron
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781501720895

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A reappraisal on the emphasis on duty in Immanuel Kant's ethics is long overdue. Marcia W. Baron evaluates and for the most part defends Kantian ethics against two frequent criticisms: that duty plays too large a role, leaving no room for the supererogatory; and that Kant places too much value on acting from duty. The author first argues that Kant's distinction between perfect and imperfect duties provides a plausible and intriguing alternative to contemporary approaches to charity, self-sacrifice, heroism, and saintliness. She probes the differences between the supererogationist and the Kantian, exploring the motivation between the former's position and bringing to light sharply divided views on the nature of moral constraint and excellence. Baron then confronts problems associated with Kant's account of moral motivation, she argues that the value that Kant attaches to acting from duty attaches primarily to governing ones conduct by a commitment to doing what morality asks. Thus understood, Kant's ethics steers clear of the most serious criticism. Of special interest is her discussion of overdetermination. Clearly written and cogently argued, Kantian Ethics Almost without Apology takes on the most philosophically intriguing challenges to Kantian ethics and subjects them to a rigorous yet sympathetic assessment. Readers will find here original contributions to the debate over impartial morality.

Reading Onora O'Neill

Author : David Archard,Monique Deveaux,Neil Manson,Daniel Weinstock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135017613

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Reading Onora O'Neill by David Archard,Monique Deveaux,Neil Manson,Daniel Weinstock Pdf

Onora O’Neill is one of the foremost moral philosophers writing today. Her work on ethics and bioethics, political philosophy and the philosophy of Kant is extremely influential. Her landmark Reith Lectures on trust did much to establish the subject not only on the philosophical and political agenda but in the world of media, business and law more widely. Reading Onora O’Neill is the first book to examine and critically appraise the work of this important thinker. It includes specially commissioned chapters by leading international philosophers in ethics, Kantian philosophy and political philosophy. The following aspects of O’Neill’s work are examined: global justice Kant the ethics of the family bioethics consent trust. Featuring a substantial reply to her critics at the end of the book, Reading Onora O’Neill is essential reading for students and scholars of ethics and political philosophy.

Kant’s Theory of Emotion

Author : D. Williamson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781137498106

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Williamson explains, defends, and applies Kant's theory of emotion. Looking primarily to the Anthropology and the Metaphysics of Morals, she situates Kant's theory of affect within his theory of feeling and focuses on the importance of moral feelings and the moral evaluation of our emotions.

Kant, Duty and Moral Worth

Author : Philip Stratton-Lake
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Ethics, Modern
ISBN : 0415335574

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Kant, Duty and Moral Worth by Philip Stratton-Lake Pdf

An examination of Kant's moral thought, this offers an account of acting from duty, utilising the distinction between primary and secondary motives. It should appeal to Kant scholars and those interested in moral theory.

Dignity and Vulnerability

Author : George W. Harris
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780520309722

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Dignity and Vulnerability by George W. Harris Pdf

In this significant addition to moral theory, George W. Harris challenges a view of the dignity and worth of persons that goes back through Kant and Christianity to the Stoics. He argues that we do not, in fact, believe this view, which traces any breakdowns of character to failures of strength. When it comes to what we actually value in ourselves and others, he says, we are far more Greek than Christian. At the most profound level, we value ourselves as natural organisms, as animals, rather than as godlike beings who transcend nature. The Kantian-Christian-Stoic tradition holds that if we were fully able to realize our dignity as Kantians, Christians, or Stoics, we would be better, stronger people, and therefore less vulnerable to character breakdown. Dignity and Vulnerability offers an opposing view, that sometimes character breaks down not because of some shortcoming in it but because of what is good about it, because of the very virtues and features of character that give us our dignity. If dignity can make us fragile and vulnerable to breakdown, then breakdown can be benign as well as harmful, and thus the conceptions of human dignity embedded in the tradition leading up to Kant are deeply mistaken. Harris proposes a foundation for our belief in human dignity in what we can actually know about ourselves, rather than in metaphysical or theological fantasy. Having gained this knowledge, we can understand the source of real strength. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1997.

Reason, Value, and Respect

Author : Mark Timmons,Robert N. Johnson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191039119

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Reason, Value, and Respect by Mark Timmons,Robert N. Johnson Pdf

In thirteen specially written essays, leading philosophers explore Kantian themes in moral and political philosophy that are prominent in the work of Thomas E. Hill, Jr. The first three essays focus on respect and self-respect.; the second three on practical reason and public reason. The third section covers a set of topics in social and political philosophy, including Kantian perspectives on homicide and animals. The final set of essays discuss duty, volition, and complicity in ethics. In conclusion Hill offers an overview of his work and responses to the preceding essays.

Three Methods of Ethics

Author : Marcia W. Baron
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1997-12-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0631194347

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Three Methods of Ethics by Marcia W. Baron Pdf

During the past decade ethical theory has been in a lively state of development, and three basic approaches to ethics - Kantian ethics, consequentialism, and virtue ethics - have assumed positions of particular prominence. Written in the form of a debate, this volume presents a clear survey and assessment of the main arguments, both for and against each of these three central approaches to ethics. In doing so, it represents the first volume to bring these forms of ethical theory into a critical relationship, engaging current philosophical debate on the one hand in terms clear enough for undergraduates on the other. It is an ideal basis for course use in ethics and moral philosophy.

Ethical Encounter

Author : C. Cordner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2001-12-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780230509177

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This book shows how our moral concepts are nourished by awe, reverence and various forms of love. These ways of encountering the world and other human beings inform our sense of good and evil, of justice and injustice, of obligation, of fidelity and betrayal, and of many virtues and vices. In ways moral philosophy commonly misses, this book shows moral understanding is broadened and deepened by what is disclosed only in these forms of encounter.

American Philosophical Quarterly

Author : Nicholas Rescher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113521848

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Perfecting Virtue

Author : Lawrence Jost,Julian Wuerth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139494359

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Perfecting Virtue by Lawrence Jost,Julian Wuerth Pdf

In western philosophy today, the three leading approaches to normative ethics are those of Kantian ethics, virtue ethics and utilitarianism. In recent years the debate between Kantian ethicists and virtue ethicists has assumed an especially prominent position. The twelve newly commissioned essays in this volume, by leading scholars in both traditions, explore key aspects of each approach as related to the debate, and identify new common ground but also real and lasting differences between these approaches. The volume provides a rich overview of the continuing debate between two powerful forms of enquiry, and will be valuable for a wide range of students and scholars working in these fields.

Kantian Moral Theory and the Destruction of the Self

Author : Sandra Jane Fairbanks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951P00522635F

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Through Freedom to the Real

Author : Shibin Thuniampral
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015070134617

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Through Freedom to the Real by Shibin Thuniampral Pdf

Canadian Philosophical Reviews

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015078935387

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Philosophical Ethics

Author : Tom L. Beauchamp
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015066072474

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Philosophical Ethics by Tom L. Beauchamp Pdf

This accessible overview of classical and modern moral theory with short readings provides comprehensive coverage of ethics and unique coverage of rights, justice, liberty and law. Real-life cases introduce each chapter. While the book's content is theoretical rather than applied ethics, Beauchamp consistently applies the theories to practical moral problems. Aristotle, Hume, Kant, and Mill are at the book's core and they are placed in the context of moral philosophical controversies of the last 30 years. In this edition one-third of the reading selections are new and all the selections in chapter 8 on rights are new. Chapter 7 on Hume has been heavily reshaped. Chapter 1 has been reduced to get students past introductory material and into the philosophers.

Philosophic Classics, Volume III

Author : Forrest E. Baird
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : IND:30000125289094

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Philosophic Classics, Volume III by Forrest E. Baird Pdf

Esteemed for providing the best available translations, Philosophic Classics: Modern Philosophy, features complete works or complete sections of the most important works by the major thinkers, as well as shorter samples from transitional thinkers. First published in 1961, Forrest E. Baird's revision of Philosophic Classics, Pearson Education's long-standing anthology (available in split volumes), continues the tradition of providing generations of students with high quality course material. Using the complete works, or where appropriate, complete sections of works, this anthology allows philosophers to speak directly to students. For more information on the main combined anthology, or the additional period volumes, please see below: Philosophic Classics: From Plato to Derrida, 6/E ISBN-10: 0205783864 Philosophic Classics, Volume I: Ancient Philosophy, 6/E ISBN-10: 0205783856 Philosophic Classics, Volume II: Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy, 6/E ISBN-10: 0205783902