Lecture On Ethics

Author : Ludwig Wittgenstein
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781118887134

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Lecture on Ethics by Ludwig Wittgenstein Pdf

The most complete edition yet published of Wittgenstein’s1929 lecture includes a never-before published first draft andmakes fresh claims for its significance in Wittgenstein’soeuvre. The first available print publication of all known drafts ofWittgenstein’s Lecture on Ethics Includes a previously unrecognized first draft of the lectureand new transcriptions of all drafts Transcriptions preserve the philosopher’s emendationsthus showing the development of the ideas in the lecture Proposes a different draft as the version read by Wittgensteinin his 1929 lecture Includes introductory essays on the origins of the material andon its meaning, content, and importance

Author : Michael Lambek,Veena Das,Didier Fassin,Webb Keane
Publisher : Neuroendocrinology - Masterclass Series
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Anthropological ethics
ISBN : 0990505073

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Four Lectures on Ethics by Michael Lambek,Veena Das,Didier Fassin,Webb Keane Pdf

4e de couverture: Responding to the challenges from the worlds they study and reflecting critically on their own practice, anthropologists have recently devoted new attention to ethics and morality. This masterclass brings together four of the most eminent scholars working in this field--Michael Lambek, Veena Das, Didier Fassin, and Webb Keane--to discuss, in a lecture format, the way in which anthropology faces contemporary ethical issues and moral problems. Rather than treating ethics as an object or as an isolable domain in moral theory, the authors are interested in grasping how the ethical and the moral emerge from social actions and interactions, how they are related to historical contexts and cultural settings, how they are transformed through their confrontation with the political, and how they are, ultimately, an integral part of life. Contrasting in their perspectives and methods, but developing a lively conversation, this masterclass provides four distinct voices to compose what will be an essential guide for an anthropology of the ethical and the moral in the twenty-first century.

Author : Lara Denis,Oliver Sensen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107036314

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Kant's Lectures on Ethics by Lara Denis,Oliver Sensen Pdf

Featuring fifteen new essays, this book is the only volume devoted to a scholarly study of Kant's lectures on ethics.

Author : John Rawls
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674042568

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Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy by John Rawls Pdf

Constantly revised and refined over three decades, Rawls's lectures on various historical figures reflect his developing and changing views on the history of liberalism and democracy. With its careful analyses of the doctrine of the social contract, utilitarianism, and socialism, this volume has a critical place in the traditions it expounds.

Author : Ulrich Arnswald
Publisher : KIT Scientific Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Aufsatzsammlung
ISBN : 9783866442184

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In Search of Meaning by Ulrich Arnswald Pdf

The essays collected in this volume explore some of the themes that have been at the centre of recent debates within Wittgensteinian scholarship. In opposition to what we are tentatively inclined to think, the articles of this volume invite us to understand that our need to grasp the essence of ethical and religious thought and language will not be achieved by metaphysical theories expounded from such a point of view, but by focusing on our everyday forms of expression.

Author : Czesław Porębski
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004394322

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Lectures on Polish Value Theory by Czesław Porębski Pdf

This book introduces an important chapter of Polish 20th century philosophy, by analyzing the studies that contributed to value theory; i.e. the studies of Kazimierz Twardowski, Tadeusz Czeżowski, Tadeusz Kotarbiński, Władysław Tatarkiewicz, Roman Ingarden, Henryk Elzenberg, Maria Ossowska, and Józef Maria Bocheński.

Author : Michael J. Sandel
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781429952682

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Justice by Michael J. Sandel Pdf

A renowned Harvard professor's brilliant, sweeping, inspiring account of the role of justice in our society--and of the moral dilemmas we face as citizens What are our obligations to others as people in a free society? Should government tax the rich to help the poor? Is the free market fair? Is it sometimes wrong to tell the truth? Is killing sometimes morally required? Is it possible, or desirable, to legislate morality? Do individual rights and the common good conflict? Michael J. Sandel's "Justice" course is one of the most popular and influential at Harvard. Up to a thousand students pack the campus theater to hear Sandel relate the big questions of political philosophy to the most vexing issues of the day, and this fall, public television will air a series based on the course. Justice offers readers the same exhilarating journey that captivates Harvard students. This book is a searching, lyrical exploration of the meaning of justice, one that invites readers of all political persuasions to consider familiar controversies in fresh and illuminating ways. Affirmative action, same-sex marriage, physician-assisted suicide, abortion, national service, patriotism and dissent, the moral limits of markets—Sandel dramatizes the challenge of thinking through these con?icts, and shows how a surer grasp of philosophy can help us make sense of politics, morality, and our own convictions as well. Justice is lively, thought-provoking, and wise—an essential new addition to the small shelf of books that speak convincingly to the hard questions of our civic life.

Author : Michael Lambek
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780823233168

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Ordinary Ethics by Michael Lambek Pdf

Bringing together ethnographic exposition with philosophical concepts and arguments and effectively transcending subdisciplinary boundaries between cultural and linguistic anthropology, the essays collected in this volume explore the ethical entailments of speech and action and demonstrate the centrality of ethical practice, judgment, reasoning, responsibility, cultivation, commitment, and questioning in social life. Rather than focus on codes of conduct or hot-button issues, they make the cumulative argument that ethics is profoundly 'ordinary', pervasive - and possibly even intrinsic to speech and action. In addition to deepening our understanding of ethics, the volume makes an incisive and necessary intervention in anthropological theory, recasting discussion in ways that force us to rethink such concepts as power, agency, and relativism. Individual chapters consider the place of ethics with respect to conversation and interaction; judgment and responsibility; formality, etiquette, performance, ritual, and law; character and empathy; social boundaries and exclusions; socialization and punishment; and commemoration, history, and living together in peace and war.

Author : David Wiggins
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0674022149

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Ethics by David Wiggins Pdf

Almost every thoughtful person wonders at some time why morality says what it says and how, if at all, it speaks to us. David Wiggins surveys the answers most commonly proposed for such questions--and does so in a way that the thinking reader, increasingly perplexed by the everyday problem of moral philosophy, can follow. His work is thus an introduction to ethics that presupposes nothing more than the reader's willingness to read philosophical proposals closely and literally. Gathering insights from Hume, Kant, the utilitarians, and a twentieth-century assortment of post-utilitarian thinkers, and drawing on sources as diverse as Aristotle, Simone Weil, and Philippa Foot, Wiggins points to the special role of the sentiments of solidarity and reciprocity that human beings will find within themselves. After examining the part such sentiments play in sustaining our ordinary ideas of agency and responsibility, he searches the political sphere for a neo-Aristotelian account of justice that will cohere with such an account of morality. Finally, Wiggins turns to the standing of morality and the question of the objectivity or reality of ethical demands. As the need arises at various points in the book, he pursues a variety of related issues and engages additional thinkers--Plato, C. S. Peirce, Darwin, Schopenhauer, Leibniz, John Rawls, Montaigne and others--always emphasizing the words of the philosophers under discussion, and giving readers the resources to arrive at their own viewpoint of why and how ethics matters.

Author : Tim Mulgan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317547747

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Ethics for a Broken World by Tim Mulgan Pdf

Imagine living in the future in a world already damaged by humankind, a world where resources are insufficient to meet everyone's basic needs and where a chaotic climate makes life precarious. Then imagine looking back into the past, back to our own time and assessing the ethics of the early twenty-first century. "Ethics for a Broken World" imagines how the future might judge us and how living in a time of global environmental degradation might utterly reshape the politics and ethics of the future. This book is presented as a series of history of philosophy lectures given in the future, studying the classic texts from a past age of affluence, our own time. The central ethical questions of our time are shown to look very different from the perspective of a ruined world. The aim of "Ethics for a Broken" World is to look at our present with the benefit of hindsight - to reimagine contemporary philosophy in an historical context - and to highlight the contingency of our own moral and political ideals.

Author : Zygmunt Bauman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674033948

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Does Ethics Have a Chance in a World of Consumers? by Zygmunt Bauman Pdf

Bauman urges us to think in new ways about a newly flexible, newly challenging modern world. In an era of routine travel, where most people circulate widely, the inherited beliefs that aid our thinking about the world have become an obstacle. He challenges members of the “knowledge class” to overcome their estrangement from the rest of society.

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 667 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0394309731

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Introduction to Aristotle by Aristotle Pdf

This Introduction to Aristotle is a presentation in which Aristotle is permitted to speak for himself in the context of a sketched scheme of the relation of what he says in one treatise to what he says elsewhere. The seven introductions which precede these seven works place them in their contexts by describing their relations to other works or parts of works, their place in the scheme of the Aristotelian sciences, and the fashion in which the subjects treated in the sciences they expound may be considered in the approaches proper to other sciences in the system. - Preface.

Author : Peter Singer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139496896

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Practical Ethics by Peter Singer Pdf

For thirty years, Peter Singer's Practical Ethics has been the classic introduction to applied ethics. For this third edition, the author has revised and updated all the chapters and added a new chapter addressing climate change, one of the most important ethical challenges of our generation. Some of the questions discussed in this book concern our daily lives. Is it ethical to buy luxuries when others do not have enough to eat? Should we buy meat from intensively reared animals? Am I doing something wrong if my carbon footprint is above the global average? Other questions confront us as concerned citizens: equality and discrimination on the grounds of race or sex; abortion, the use of embryos for research and euthanasia; political violence and terrorism; and the preservation of our planet's environment. This book's lucid style and provocative arguments make it an ideal text for university courses and for anyone willing to think about how she or he ought to live.

Author : William Whewell
Publisher : London : J.W. Parker ; Cambridge : J. Deighton
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Ethics
ISBN : UCAL:B3928352

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Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy in England by William Whewell Pdf

Author : John Deigh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521772464

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An Introduction to Ethics by John Deigh Pdf

This book examines the central questions of ethics through a study of the great ethical works of Western philosophy.