Moral Dilemmas Identity And Our Moral Condition

Author : Michael Shaw Perry
Publisher : Algora Publishing
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781628940756

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Moral Dilemmas, Identity, and Our Moral Condition by Michael Shaw Perry Pdf

For readers engaged in intellectual struggle, ethical thinking, and trying to figure out how to live a purposeful, fulfilling life, here is a critical and accessible approach to ethics. Moral dilemmas challenge us to think through sticky situations and lead us to look for moral grounding. Following Cicero and other ancient philosophers, the author views ethics in terms of the question of who and what sort of person one ought to be, without relying on religion or any other prescriptions.

Author : Ovadia Ezra
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006-05-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781402041051

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Moral Dilemmas in Real Life by Ovadia Ezra Pdf

Moral Dilemmas in Real Life purports to supply ways of thinking of, perhaps even dealing with, the ins and outs of ethical argument. The world today presents both individuals and communities with situations, which demand moral and ethical deliberations. From the more general issues of universal globalization to the very specific problems of every-day existence encountered by active agents, contemporary life is replete with moral and ethical conundrums. Any thinking person is required, so it seems, to be concerned, involved, or – at the very least – conversant with these issues and this book supplies the wherewithal needed. Applied ethics is that intellectual locale where theory meets praxis. Moral Dilemmas in Real Life is designed to make that meeting point explicit, by presenting a series of issues in well-grounded philosophical formulations. The book begins with the general relation between the individual and society – instilling ethical tension, and even clashes, between the private and the public in our discourse. Going on, from general to specific, it gradually narrows the ethical playing field to touch on medical ethics, the family, and the practice of punishment. In all cases, the book addresses both consensual and conventional social institutions and distortions thereof.

Author : David Shoemaker
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781551118826

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Personal Identity and Ethics by David Shoemaker Pdf

The relationship between personal identity and ethics remains on of the most intriguing yet vexing issues in philosophy. It is commonplace to hold that moral responsibility for past actions requires that the responsible agent is in some respect identical to the agent who performed the action. Is this true? On the other hand, can ethics constrain our account of personal identity? Do the practical requirements of moral theory commit us to the view that persons do remain identical over time? For example, does the moral status of abortion or stem cell research depend on whether personal identity is based on psychological or biological properties? Or is it the case that personal identity is not, in fact, relevant to ethics? Personal Identity and Ethics provides the first comprehensive examination of these issues. Topics include personal identity and prudential rationality; personal identity’s significance for moral responsibility and ethical theory; and the practical consequences of accounts of personal identity for issues such as abortion, stem cell research, cloning, advance directives, population ethics, multiple personality disorder, and the definition of death.

Author : H. E. Mason
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1996-07-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780195357127

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Moral Dilemmas and Moral Theory by H. E. Mason Pdf

Do moral dilemmas truly exist? What counts as a moral dilemma? Can an adequate moral theory admit the possibility of genuine conflicts of moral obligations? In this book, twelve prominent moral theorists examine these and other questions from a wide variety of philosophical perspectives. Concerned throughout with the implications of moral dilemmas for moral theory, this collection of essays captures in striking fashion the full scope and vitality of the current moral dilemmas debate. Including both realist and anti-realist meta-ethical positions, and Kantian and consequentialist normative views, Moral Dilemmas and Moral Theory sheds new light on several standing controversies in moral philosophy while raising a fresh set of challenging issues. Contributors include Simon Blackburn, Ruth Barcan Marcus, Alan Donagan, Terrance McConnell, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Mary Mothersill, Norman Dahl, David Brink, Peter Railton, Thomas E. Hill, Jr., Christopher Gowans, and H.E. Mason.

Author : Philippa Foot
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002-10-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191530982

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Moral Dilemmas by Philippa Foot Pdf

Moral Dilemmas is the second volume of collected essays by the eminent moral philosopher Philippa Foot. It fills the gap between her famous 1978 collection Virtues and Vices (now reissued) and her acclaimed monograph Natural Goodness, published in 2001. Moral Dilemmas presents the best of Professor Foot's work from the late 1970s to the 1990s. In these essays she develops further her influential critique of the 'non-cognitivist' approaches that have dominated moral philosophy over the last fifty years. She shows why it is a mistake to think of morality in terms of special psychological states, expressed in special kinds of judgement and a special 'moral' kind of language. Instead she portrays thoughts about the goodness of human will and action as a particular case of the evaluation of other operations of human beings, and indeed of all living things. Among other topics, she discusses the nature of moral judgement, practical rationality, and the conflict of virtue with desire and self-interest. Moral Dilemmas, alongside Professor Foot's other two books, completes the summation of her distinctive and lasting contribution to twentieth-century moral philosophy.

Author : Yael Eylat-Tanaka
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1508990336

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The Compact Book of Values by Yael Eylat-Tanaka Pdf

Humans constantly struggle with moral values that at times are at odds with their personal desires. The conflict felt by those apparent dilemmas does not mitigate everyone's participation in the toils that is life. The values identified in this book are universal. The pains and joys are experienced by all, and everyone has his or her methods of coping, be it prayer or simply talking to a good friend. Each value herein is preceded by a relevant quote from a luminary, and then the author expounds upon the principle put forth. The rest is up to the reader - to engage with, reflect upon, and ultimately surrender to the human condition with the knowledge that we are all united.

Author : David Boonin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199682935

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The Non-identity Problem and the Ethics of Future People by David Boonin Pdf

David Boonin presents a new account of the non-identity problem: a puzzle about our obligations to people who do not yet exist. He provides a critical survey of solutions to the problem that have been proposed, and concludes by developing an unorthodox alternative solution, one that differs fundamentally from virtually every other approach.

Author : Thomas E. Doyle, II
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136229497

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The Ethics of Nuclear Weapons Dissemination by Thomas E. Doyle, II Pdf

This book examines the moral dilemmas of nuclear dissemination, and the justifications of both nuclear pursuit and avoidance by contemporary states. Applying Constructivist methodologies and moral theory, the author analyses a core set of moral dilemmas that ensnare decision-makers amongst state and non-state nuclear aspirants, as well as amongst states committed to preventing horizontal proliferation. The book shows that the character, structure and implications of these dilemmas have not yet been adequately understood or appreciated, and that such an understanding is necessary for an effective set of nonproliferation policies. Furthermore, it shows that the dilemmas’ force and political policy import are evident in the 'discourses' that diverse actors undertake to defend their nuclear choices, and how the dilemmas of nuclear aspirants are implicated in those of nuclear preventers. The author advocates a number of policy recommendations that reinforce some already made by scholars and experts but, more importantly, others that advise significantly different courses of action. The book reveals how the moral dilemmas of nuclear aspiration, avoidance, and prevention constitute the security dilemmas and paradoxes that comprise much of the 21st century security environment. This book will be of much interest to students of nuclear proliferation, international relations, ethics, and international security studies.

Author : Darcia Narváez,Daniel K. Lapsley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521895071

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Personality, Identity, and Character by Darcia Narváez,Daniel K. Lapsley Pdf

This edited volume features cutting-edge work in moral psychology by pre-eminent scholars in moral self-identity, moral character, and moral personality.

Author : Marinos Diamantides,Adam Gearey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136675652

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Islam, Law and Identity by Marinos Diamantides,Adam Gearey Pdf

The essays brought together in Islam, Law and Identity are the product of a series of interdisciplinary workshops that brought together scholars from a plethora of countries. Funded by the British Academy the workshops convened over a period of two years in London, Cairo and Izmir. The workshops and the ensuing papers focus on recent debates about the nature of sacred and secular law and most engage case studies from specific countries including Egypt, Israel, Kazakhstan, Mauritania, Pakistan and the UK. Islam, Law and Identity also addresses broader and over-arching concerns about relationships between religion, human rights, law and modernity. Drawing on a variety of theoretical and empirical approaches, the collection presents law as central to the complex ways in which different Muslim communities and institutions create and re-create their identities around inherently ambiguous symbols of faith. From their different perspectives, the essays argue that there is no essential conflict between secular law and Shari`a but various different articulations of the sacred and the secular. Islam, Law and Identity explores a more nuanced and sophisticated understanding of the tensions that animate such terms as Shari`a law, modernity and secularization

Author : Nick Duncan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317077619

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Positive Social Identity by Nick Duncan Pdf

Despite considerable work the answer to basic questions such as ‘what are our ethics and our moral norms now?’ ‘Have they changed since last year?’, ‘If so why?’ remain surprisingly illusive. This book argues that progress towards answering these questions is possible through a grounded analytical account of the cultivation of ethics and moral norms in social groups, in particular places and times. Departing from the evolutionary theory of why we gain value from pro-social behaviour, we argue that a coherent thread exists for how we do so through evolved social capacities that are united in the pursuit of a Positive Social Identity. Drawing on a unique quantitative dataset from Sierra Leone this book offers a theoretical framework and a preliminary guide to the systematic quantitative analysis of ethics and moral norms and how these may relate to the long term success of organisations. The results directly challenge a ‘one-size-fits-all’, universal understanding of both ethics and moral norms both within and between organisations. The costs and challenges influencing the development of ethics and moral norms and their ultimate conception of pro-sociality vary dramatically according to situation. Nowhere is this more starkly illustrated than between economically developed and developing countries. In analysing the relationship between agency and situation, the role of diversity, conflict, inefficiency and failure to cooperate prove to be essential components of the solution of social dilemmas on which Positive Social Identity depends.

Author : Wanda Teays
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781444355864

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Seeing the Light by Wanda Teays Pdf

Seeing the Light: Exploring Ethics Through Movies is an engaging and innovative approach to the study of philosophy and the development of moral reasoning skills. Features broad coverage of topics in ethics and moral reasoning Offers an innovative and imaginative approach to showing relevance of movies for ethical reflection Draws on a diverse selection of popular movies, foreign films, and documentaries to illustrate ethical dilemmas and character development on the big screen that has application to our lives Presents coverage of major ethical theories ranging from Ethical Egoism and Cultural Relativism to Utilitarianism, Kantian Ethics, Rawls' Justice Theory, Aristotle's Virtue Ethics, and Feminist Ethics Demonstrates how film is a powerful vehicle for sharpening skills in analysis and moral reasoning Includes accompanying website

Author : Ronald R. Sims,William I. Sauser
Publisher : IAP
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781617354717

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Experiences in Teaching Business Ethics by Ronald R. Sims,William I. Sauser Pdf

The primary purpose of this book is to stimulate dialogue and discussion about the most effective ways of teaching ethics. Contributors to the book focus on approaches and methodologies and lessons learned that are having an impact in leading students to confront with accountability and understanding the bases of their ethical thinking, the responsibilities they have to an enlarged base of stakeholders (whose needs and interests often are conflicting), and their stewardship to use their talents responsibility not only in fulfilling an enterprise's economic goals but also to recognize the impact of their actions on both individuals and larger society. The primary audiences for the book are those individuals responsible for teaching management, especially those with responsibilities for teaching business ethics. But the book is also designed for practicing managers, for these managers have among their most important responsibilities the development of people in their organizations who have the integrity, values, and competences to be effective managers of economic resources while at the same time to recognize the roles of their enterprise in shaping society.

Author : Helga Kuhse,Peter Singer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 846 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781444345407

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A Companion to Bioethics by Helga Kuhse,Peter Singer Pdf

This second edition of A Companion to Bioethics, fully revised and updated to reflect the current issues and developments in the field, covers all the material that the reader needs to thoroughly grasp the ideas and debates involved in bioethics. Thematically organized around an unparalleled range of issues, including discussion of the moral status of embryos and fetuses, new genetics, life and death, resource allocation, organ donations, AIDS, human and animal experimentation, health care, and teaching Now includes new essays on currently controversial topics such as cloning and genetic enhancement Topics are clearly and compellingly presented by internationally renowned bioethicists A detailed index allows the reader to find terms and topics not listed in the titles of the essays themselves

Author : Ruth F. Chadwick,Doris Schroeder
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Applied ethics
ISBN : 0415208327

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Applied Ethics by Ruth F. Chadwick,Doris Schroeder Pdf