Morality Within The Limits Of Reason

Author : Russell Hardin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226316208

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Morality Within the Limits of Reason by Russell Hardin Pdf

This provocative, lucidly written reconstruction of utilitarianism focuses on the practical constraints involved in ethical choice: information may be inadequate, and understanding of causes and effects may be limited. Good decision making may be especially constrained if other people are closely involved in determining an outcome. Hardin demonstrates that many of these structural issues can and should be distinguished from the thornier problems of utilitarian value theory, and he is able to show what kinds of moral conclusions we can reach within the limits of reason.

Author : Immanuel Kant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1998-11-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521599644

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Kant: Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason by Immanuel Kant Pdf

Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason is a key element of the system of philosophy which Kant introduced with his Critique of Pure Reason, and a work of major importance in the history of Western religious thought. It represents a great philosopher's attempt to spell out the form and content of a type of religion that would be grounded in moral reason and would meet the needs of ethical life. It includes sharply critical and boldly constructive discussions on topics not often treated by philosophers, including such traditional theological concepts as original sin and the salvation or 'justification' of a sinner, and the idea of the proper role of a church. This volume presents it and three short essays that illuminate it in new translations by Allen Wood and George di Giovanni, with an introduction by Robert Merrihew Adams that locates it in its historical and philosophical context.

Author : John Stuart Mill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Utilitarianism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020092826

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Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill Pdf

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Author : Michael J. Sandel
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781429942584

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What Money Can't Buy by Michael J. Sandel Pdf

Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we allow corporations to pay for the right to pollute the atmosphere? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars? Auctioning admission to elite universities? Selling citizenship to immigrants willing to pay? In What Money Can't Buy, Michael J. Sandel takes on one of the biggest ethical questions of our time: Is there something wrong with a world in which everything is for sale? If so, how can we prevent market values from reaching into spheres of life where they don't belong? What are the moral limits of markets? In recent decades, market values have crowded out nonmarket norms in almost every aspect of life—medicine, education, government, law, art, sports, even family life and personal relations. Without quite realizing it, Sandel argues, we have drifted from having a market economy to being a market society. Is this where we want to be?In his New York Times bestseller Justice, Sandel showed himself to be a master at illuminating, with clarity and verve, the hard moral questions we confront in our everyday lives. Now, in What Money Can't Buy, he provokes an essential discussion that we, in our market-driven age, need to have: What is the proper role of markets in a democratic society—and how can we protect the moral and civic goods that markets don't honor and that money can't buy?

Author : Shelly Kagan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015014201480

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The Limits of Morality by Shelly Kagan Pdf

Basing itself on the premise that there are limits to the sacrifices that morality can demand on individuals, and also that certain types of acts are simply forbidden, this book argues that attempts to defend these sorts of moral limits are inadequate.

Author : Richard Schacht
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1994-06-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0520083180

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Nietzsche, Genealogy, Morality by Richard Schacht Pdf

Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals has become a prominent text of recent Western philosophy. An influence on psychoanalysis, antihistoricism, and poststructuralism and an abiding challenge to ethical theory, the philosopher's book addressed many of the major philosophical problems and possibilities of modernity. In this collection of essays focusing on Nietzsche's book, twenty-five philosophers offer discussions of the book's central themes and concepts. They explore such notions as ressentiment, asceticism, "slave" and "master" moralities, and what Nietzsche calls "genealogy" and its relation to other forms of inquiry in his work.

Author : Dale Dorsey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198728900

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The Limits of Moral Authority by Dale Dorsey Pdf

Dale Dorsey considers one of the most important questions in philosophical ethics: to what extent do the demands of morality have authority over us and our lives? He defends a position that runs counter to the traditional view, and argues that we are not required to conform to moral demands. Furthermore, doing so can be (quite literally) wrong.

Author : Joshua May
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192539601

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Regard for Reason in the Moral Mind by Joshua May Pdf

The burgeoning science of ethics has produced a trend toward pessimism. Ordinary moral thought and action, we're told, are profoundly influenced by arbitrary factors and ultimately driven by unreasoned feelings. This book counters the current orthodoxy on its own terms by carefully engaging with the empirical literature. The resulting view, optimistic rationalism, shows the pervasive role played by reason our moral minds, and ultimately defuses sweeping debunking arguments in ethics. The science does suggest that moral knowledge and virtue don't come easily. However, despite the heavy influence of automatic and unconscious processes that have been shaped by evolutionary pressures, we needn't reject ordinary moral psychology as fundamentally flawed or in need of serious repair. Reason can be corrupted in ethics just as in other domains, but a special pessimism about morality in particular is unwarranted. Moral judgment and motivation are fundamentally rational enterprises not beholden to the passions.

Author : Daniel R. DeNicola
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781460406601

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Moral Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction by Daniel R. DeNicola Pdf

Moral Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction is a compact yet comprehensive book offering an explication and critique of the major theories that have shaped philosophical ethics. Engaging with both historical and contemporary figures, this book explores the scope, limits, and requirements of morality. DeNicola traces our various attempts to ground morality: in nature, in religion, in culture, in social contracts, and in aspects of the human person such as reason, emotions, caring, and intuition.

Author : Thomas Christiano,Ingrid Creppell,Jack Knight
Publisher : Springer
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319610702

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Morality, Governance, and Social Institutions by Thomas Christiano,Ingrid Creppell,Jack Knight Pdf

This book reflects on the research and career of political theorist Russell Hardin from scholars of Political Science, Philosophy, Sociology, Economics, and Law, among other disciplines. Contributions address core issues of political theory as perceived by Hardin, starting with his insistence that many of the basic institutions of modern society and their formative historical beginnings can be understood as proceeding primarily from the self-interested motives of the participants. Many of the contributions in this volume struggle with the constraints imposed on political theorizing by the idea of self-interested agents, or homo economicus. Some reject the idea as empirically unfounded. Others try to show that homo economicus is even more versatile than Hardin depicts. And yet others accept the constraints and work within them. But all pay tribute to the lasting intellectual contribution of Russell Hardin and the challenge he poses. The book should appeal to scholars and students interested in collective action, public choice and democracy, moral reasoning and its limits, constitutionalism, liberalism, conventions and coordination, trust, identity politics, social epistemology, and methods in politics philosophy.

Author : Hugo Tristram Engelhardt
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Bioethics
ISBN : 902651557X

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The Foundations of Christian Bioethics by Hugo Tristram Engelhardt Pdf

For decades, Engelhardt has alluded to the ethics that binds moral friends. While his 'Foundations of Bioethics' explored the sparse ethics binding moral strangers, this long-awaited volume addresses the morality at the foundations of Christian bioethics. The volume opens with an analysis of the marginalization of Christian bioethics in the 1970s and the irremedial shortcomings of secular ethics in general. Drawing on the Christianity of the first millennium, Engelhardt provides the ontological and epistemological foundations for a Christian bioethics that can remedy the onesidedness of a secular bioethics and supply the bases for a Christian bioethics. The volume then addresses issues from abortion, third-party-assisted reproduction, and cloning, to withholding and withdrawing treatment, physician-assisted suicide, and euthanasia. Practices such as free and informed consent are relocated within a traditional Christian morality. Attention is also given to the allocation of scarce resources in health care, and to the challenge of maintaining the Christian identity of physicians, nurses, patients, and health care institutions in a culture that is now post-Christian.

Author : Immanuel Kant,Theodore M. Greene
Publisher : Digireads.com Publishing
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1420940988

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Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone by Immanuel Kant,Theodore M. Greene Pdf

Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was considered to be one of the most important and influential figures in Western philosophy for his work in the areas of metaphysics, anthropology, theoretical physics, logic, and moral philosophy. Remarkably, Kant never left the town of K nigsberg, Germany, where he had been born, received schooling, and served as lecturer at the University for many years. In his "Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals" Kant introduced his concept of the categorical imperative, the moral law by which he based his entire ethical philosophy. This includes his philosophy of religion, which he expounds on in his "Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone." The work is divided into four parts, the first of which discusses the inherent evil, or selfishness, in human nature. The second part casts Jesus and the devil as true personifications of good and evil in conflict. The third part deals with morality within the church, and the final part attacks those religious figures and church members who base their belief in miracles and supernatural elements, as opposed to moral law.

Author : Immanuel Kant
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : EAN:8596547158172

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Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant Pdf

Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals is the first of Immanuel Kant's mature works on moral philosophy and remains one of the most influential in the field. Kant conceives his investigation as a work of foundational ethics—one that clears the ground for future research by explaining the core concepts and principles of moral theory and showing that they are normative for rational agents.

Author : John A. Eisenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 0774403829

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The Limits of Reason by John A. Eisenberg Pdf

Author : Bernard Williams
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781136807251

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Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy by Bernard Williams Pdf

Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy is widely held to be his most important book and is a classic of contemporary philosophy It is assigned on many reading lists on courses on moral philosophy and ethics Ranks alongside Routledge Classics such as Alasdair MacIntyre’s Short History of Ethics and Iris Murdoch’s The Sovereignty of Good. Our edition includes a very useful commentary by Adrian Moore at the end of the book New foreword by Jonathan Lear