Morality And Modernity

Author : Ross Poole
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780415036016

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Ross Poole displays the social content of the various conceptions of morality at work in contemporary society, and casts a strikingly fresh light on such fundamental problems as the place of reason in ethics, moral objectivity and the distinction between duty and virtue. The book provides a critical account of the moral theories of a number of major philosophers, including Kant, Marx, Nietzsche, Habermas, Rawls, Gewirth and MacIntyre. It also presents a systematic critique of three of the most significant responses to modernity: liberalism, nationalism and nihilism. It takes seriously the suggestion that men and women are subject to different conceptions of morality, and places the issue of gender at the centre of moral philosophy. Poole has written a valuable addition to the Ideas series.

Author : Ross Poole
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134959662

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Morality and Modernity by Ross Poole Pdf

Ross Poole displays the social content of the various conceptions of morality at work in contemporary society, and casts a strikingly fresh light on such fundamental problems as the place of reason in ethics, moral objectivity and the distinction between duty and virtue. The book provides a critical account of the moral theories of a number of major philosophers, including Kant, Marx, Nietzsche, Habermas, Rawls, Gewirth and MacIntyre. It also presents a systematic critique of three of the most significant responses to modernity: liberalism, nationalism and nihilism. It takes seriously the suggestion that men and women are subject to different conceptions of morality, and places the issue of gender at the centre of moral philosophy. Poole has written a valuable addition to the Ideas series.

Author : Jill Kraye,Risto Saarinen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006-03-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781402030017

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Moral Philosophy on the Threshold of Modernity by Jill Kraye,Risto Saarinen Pdf

Over the past twenty years the transition from the late Middle Ages to the early modern era has received increasing attention from experts in the history of philosophy. In part, this new interest arises from claims, made in literature aimed at a less specialist readership, that this transition was responsible for the subsequent philosophical and theological problems of the Enlightenment. Philosophers like Alasdair MacIntyre and theologians like John Milbank display a certain nostalgia for the medieval synthesis of Thomas Aquinas and, consequently, evaluate the period from 1300 to 1700 in rather negative terms. Other historians of philosophy writing for the general public, such as Charles Taylor, take a more positive view of the Reformation but nevertheless conclude that modernity has been shaped by 1 conflicts which stem from early modern times. Ethics and moral thought occupy a central place in these theories. It is assumed that we have lost something – the concept of virtue, for instance, or the source of common morality. Yet those who put forward such notions do not treat the history of ethics in detail. From the historian’s perspective, their far-reaching theoretical assumptions are based on a quite small body of textual evidence. In reality, there was a rich variety of approaches to moral thinking and ethical theories during the period from 1400 to 1600.

Author : Charles Larmore
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1996-03-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521497728

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The Morals of Modernity by Charles Larmore Pdf

Arguing against recent attempts to return to the virtue-centered perspective of ancient Greek ethics, these essays explore the problem of the relation between moral philosophy and modernity by studying the differences between ancient and modern ethics.

Author : Alasdair MacIntyre
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107176454

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Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity by Alasdair MacIntyre Pdf

MacIntyre explores the philosophical, political, and moral issues encountered in understanding what the virtues require in contemporary social contexts.

Author : Zygmunt Bauman,Leonidas Donskis
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745669625

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Moral Blindness by Zygmunt Bauman,Leonidas Donskis Pdf

Evil is not confined to war or to circumstances in which people are acting under extreme duress. Today it more frequently reveals itself in the everyday insensitivity to the suffering of others, in the inability or refusal to understand them and in the casual turning away of one’s ethical gaze. Evil and moral blindness lurk in what we take as normality and in the triviality and banality of everyday life, and not just in the abnormal and exceptional cases. The distinctive kind of moral blindness that characterizes our societies is brilliantly analysed by Zygmunt Bauman and Leonidas Donskis through the concept of adiaphora: the placing of certain acts or categories of human beings outside of the universe of moral obligations and evaluations. Adiaphora implies an attitude of indifference to what is happening in the world – a moral numbness. In a life where rhythms are dictated by ratings wars and box-office returns, where people are preoccupied with the latest gadgets and forms of gossip, in our ‘hurried life’ where attention rarely has time to settle on any issue of importance, we are at serious risk of losing our sensitivity to the plight of the other. Only celebrities or media stars can expect to be noticed in a society stuffed with sensational, valueless information. This probing inquiry into the fate of our moral sensibilities will be of great interest to anyone concerned with the most profound changes that are silently shaping the lives of everyone in our contemporary liquid-modern world.

Author : Ross Poole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Ethics, Modern
ISBN : OCLC:1078696684

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Author : M. Halliwell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2001-09-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780230502734

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Modernism and Morality by M. Halliwell Pdf

Modernism and Morality discusses the relationship between artistic and moral ideas in European and American literary modernism. Rather than reading modernism as a complete rejection of social morality, this study shows how early twentieth-century writers like Conrad, Faulkner, Gide, Kafka, Mann and Stein actually devised new aesthetic techniques to address ethical problems. By focusing on a range of decadent, naturalist, avant-garde and expatriate writers between 1890 and the late 1930s this book reassesses the moral trajectory of transatlantic fiction.

Author : Barry Smart
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1999-02-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015043086191

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Facing Modernity by Barry Smart Pdf

The author of this work contends that an important responsibility of social enquiry is to engage critically with the moral difficulties and ethical dilemmas which have arisen with modernity. He discusses the work of theorists including Foucault, Beck, Derrida, Giddens and Levinas.

Author : Helen Zoe Veit
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469607719

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Modern Food, Moral Food by Helen Zoe Veit Pdf

American eating changed dramatically in the early twentieth century. As food production became more industrialized, nutritionists, home economists, and so-called racial scientists were all pointing Americans toward a newly scientific approach to diet. Food faddists were rewriting the most basic rules surrounding eating, while reformers were working to reshape the diets of immigrants and the poor. And by the time of World War I, the country's first international aid program was bringing moral advice about food conservation into kitchens around the country. In Modern Food, Moral Food, Helen Zoe Veit argues that the twentieth-century food revolution was fueled by a powerful conviction that Americans had a moral obligation to use self-discipline and reason, rather than taste and tradition, in choosing what to eat. Veit weaves together cultural history and the history of science to bring readers into the strange and complex world of the American Progressive Era. The era's emphasis on science and self-control left a profound mark on American eating, one that remains today in everything from the ubiquity of science-based dietary advice to the tenacious idealization of thinness.

Author : Richard Münch
Publisher : Legacies of Social Thought Series
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015049611778

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The Ethics of Modernity by Richard Münch Pdf

Based on intensive, long-term study, this comparative book traces the role of ethics in the formation of modernity in four Western nations (the US, Britain, France, and Germany). M nch's analysis spans several centuries of historical and political development. While ethics has played a clear role in the West's transition to modernity, he shows that its role has varied substantially and that it has influenced the development of each nation's political and social institutions. The book begins with an assessment of the ethics of the West in contrast with the East. M nch then looks at the formation of the ethics of modernity from ancient Judaism to ascetic Protestantism and modern secularized culture. The Ethics of Modernity builds a systematic reconstruction of the ethical formation of modernity in its different stages and variations, concluding with current globalization trends.

Author : Richard B. Miller
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1996-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0226526364

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Casuistry and Modern Ethics by Richard B. Miller Pdf

Did the Gulf War defend moral principle or Western oil interests? Is violent pornography an act of free speech or an act of violence against women? In Casuistry and Modern Ethics, Richard B. Miller sheds new light on the potential of casuistry—case-based reasoning—for resolving these and other questions of conscience raised by the practical quandaries of modern life. Rejecting the packaging of moral experience within simple descriptions and inflexible principles, Miller argues instead for identifying and making sense of the ethically salient features of individual cases. Because this practical approach must cope with a diverse array of experiences, Miller draws on a wide variety of diagnostic tools from such fields as philosophy of science, legal reasoning, theology, literary theory, hermeneutics, and moral philosophy. Opening new avenues for practical reasoning, Miller's interdisciplinary work will challenge scholars who are interested in the intersections of ethics and political philosophy, cultural criticism, and debates about method in religion and morality.

Author : Edward L. Rubin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199348657

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Soul, Self, and Society by Edward L. Rubin Pdf

Morality is not declining in the modern world. Instead, a new morality is replacing the previous one. Centered on individual self-fulfillment, and linked to administrative government, it permits things the old morality forbid, like sex for pleasure, but forbids things the old morality allowed, like intolerance and inequality of opportunity.

Author : Lorelle D. Semley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107053915

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The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Ethics by Lorelle D. Semley Pdf

A comprehensive and up-to-date exploration of ancient Greek ethical thought, investigating the figures, movements, and themes of this branch of philosophy.

Author : Anthony O'Hear
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004-11-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521603263

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Modern Moral Philosophy by Anthony O'Hear Pdf

Collection of original essays by leading researchers on current approaches to moral philosophy.