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Author : Thomas I. White
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Education
ISBN : 0137811705
This "common sense" exploration of the basics of philosophical ethics speaks directly to the reader, and draws examples from real-life situations.
Author : Juan Enriquez
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780262542814
A lively and entertaining guide to ethics in a technological age. Most people have a strong sense of right and wrong, and they aren't shy about expressing their opinions. But when we take a polarizing stand on something we regard as an eternal truth, we often forget that ethics evolve over time. Many shifts in the right versus wrong pendulum are driven by advances in technology. Our great-grandparents might be shocked by in vitro fertilization; our great-grandchildren might be shocked by the messiness of pregnancy, childbirth, and unedited genes. In Right/Wrong, Juan Enriquez reflects on what happens to our ethics as technology makes the once unimaginable a commonplace occurrence.
Author : Charles Fried
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0674769058
Author : Thomas I. White
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781119099321
The newly updated Right and Wrong 2nd Edition is an accessible introduction to the major traditions in western philosophical ethics, written in a lively and engaging style. It is designed for entry-level ethics courses and includes real-life ethical scenarios chosen to appeal directly to students. Greatly expanded and improved, this successful text introduces students to the major ethical traditions, and provides a simple methodology for resolving ethical dilemmas Treats teleological and deontological approaches to ethics as the two most important traditions, but now includes chapters on virtue ethics and the ethics of care The very accessible writing style speaks directly to students’ own experience Draws examples from three types of real-life ethical scenarios submitted by students: academic dishonesty, partying, and personal relationships Provides a concise treatment of this notoriously complex subject, perfect for entry-level ethics and applied ethics courses
Author : Wayne Johnston
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735281653
NATIONAL BESTSELLER "An absolutely unforgettable novel."—Ian Williams A masterwork from one of the country’s most critically acclaimed and beloved writers that grapples with male violence, sexual abuse, and madness. Complusively readable and heartstopping. Wade Jackson, a young man from a Newfoundland outport, wants to be a writer. In the university library in St. John’s, where he goes every day to absorb the great books of the world, he encounters the fascinating, South African-born Rachel van Hout, and soon they are lovers. Rachel is the youngest of four van Hout daughters, each in their own way a wounded soul. The oldest, Gloria, has a string of broken marriages behind her. Carmen is addicted to every drug her Afrikaner dealer husband can lay his hands on. Bethany, the most sardonic of the sisters, is fighting a losing battle with anorexia. And then there is Rachel, who reads The Diary of Anne Frank obsessively, and diarizes her days in a secret language of her own invention, writing to the point of breakdown and beyond—an obsession that has deeper and more disturbing roots than Wade could ever have imagined. Confronting the central mystery of his character Rachel’s life—and his own—Wayne Johnston has created a brilliant and searing tour de force that pulls the reader toward a conclusion both inevitable and impossible to foresee.
Author : Mark Osiel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780674240209
Much of what we could do, we shouldn’t—and we don’t. Mark Osiel shows that common morality—expressed as shame, outrage, and stigma—is society’s first line of defense against transgressions. Social norms can be indefensible, but when they complement the law, they can save us from an alternative that is far worse: a repressive legal regime.
Author : Hugh Mackay
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781459609624
In modern Western societies we are presented with a hugh array of choices and encouraged to believe that having the freedom to choose sets us on the path to happiness. Yet, as renowned social commentator Hugh Mackay shows in Right & Wrong: how to decide for yourself, freedom to choose is no freedom at all unless it is accompanied by the confidence of knowing we have made the right choice. In this insightful book, Hugh Mackay suggests some personal strategies that will make it easier to work out what is right and wrong for you whenever you are confronted by a moral choice. In an engaging, conversational style Hugh confidently tackles the moral minefield of personal relationships, business ethics, the difference between 'legal' and 'ethical', morality and religion (and why they should not be confused), the benefits of moral mindfulness and the reasons why we should strive for a good life in which we are true to ourselves and sensitive to the wellbeing of others who might be affected by our actions.
Author : Kieran Setiya
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199657452
Can we have objective knowledge of right and wrong, of how we should live and what there is reason to do? Can it be anything but luck when our beliefs are true? Kieran Setiya confronts these questions in their most compelling and articulate forms, and argues that if there is objective ethical knowledge, human nature is its source.
Author : Bernard Mayo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000055993
Trying to understand morality involves grappling with seemingly irreconcilable conflicts between opposing theoretical positions. Originally published in 1986, this book offers a solution in terms of natural law, which involves reflections on the relevant aspects of human nature and the human condition, as well as on the special nature of prescriptive language. It also discusses several major movements in moral philosophy, both classical and contemporary and examines them in the light of a set of tests for an adequate moral theory.
Author : Cecilia Wainryb,Holly E. Recchia
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-20
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781107026308
This book illuminates the conversations that parents and children have about right and wrong, and how these conversations affect children's moral development.
Author : Marc D. Hauser
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780061864780
A Harvard scientist illuminates the biological basis for human morality in this groundbreaking book. With the diversity of moral attitudes found across cultures around the globe, it is easy to assume that moral perspectives are socially developed—a matter of nurture rather than nature. But in Moral Minds, Marc Hauser presents compelling evidence to the contrary, and offers a revolutionary new theory: that humans have evolved a universal moral instinct. Hauser argues that certain biologically innate moral principles propel us toward judgments of right and wrong independent of gender, education, and religion. Combining his cutting-edge research with the latest findings in cognitive psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, economics, and anthropology, Hauser explores the startling implications of his provocative theory vis-à-vis contemporary bioethics, religion, the law, and our everyday lives.
Author : Timothy J. Cooney
Publisher : Humanities Press International
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015010533878
Morality has occupied the minds of men since the first spear was raised in anger. But what is morality? What does it mean to be moral? And how do we determine what falls outside the bounds of ethical discussion? Mr. Cooney develops a unique moral theory in which he isolates and explores the core of morality. He contends that in common usage it reveals an ultimate and all-but-universal guide to action, a guide that provides the basis for delcaring some actions (e.g., murder, arson, assault, robbery, etc.) to be wrong, while it considers other types of behavior (e.g., homosexuality, gambling, drinking, abortion, etc.) to be matters of politics and opinion rather than morality. Mr. Cooney separates actual from apparent moral issues and, in doing so, seeks to spare society needless and potentially disastrous confrontations. He offers a firm response to those who claims that morality is ultimately relative. -- From publisher's description.
Author : J.L. Mackie
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1990-08-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780141960098
An insight into moral skepticism of the 20th century. The author argues that our every-day moral codes are an 'error theory' based on the presumption of moral facts which, he persuasively argues, don't exist. His refutation of such facts is based on their metaphysical 'queerness' and the observation of cultural relativity.
Author : Wendell Wallach,Colin Allen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780199737970
"Moral Machines is a fine introduction to the emerging field of robot ethics. There is much here that will interest ethicists, philosophers, cognitive scientists, and roboticists." ---Peter Danielson, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews --
Author : Benjamin Sachs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351392075
Explaining Right and Wrong aims to shake the foundations of contemporary ethics by showing that moral philosophers have been deploying a mistaken methodology in their efforts to figure out the truth about what we morally ought to do. Benjamin Sachs argues that moral theorizing makes sense only if it is conceived of as an explanatory project and carried out accordingly. The book goes on to show that the most prominent forms of moral monism—consequentialism, Kantianism, and contractarianism/contractualism—as well as Rossian pluralism, each face devastating explanatory objections. It offers in place of these flawed options a brand-new family of normative ethical theories, non-Rossian pluralism. It then argues that the best kind of non-Rossian pluralism will be spare; in particular, it will deny that an action can be wrong in virtue of constituting a failure to distribute welfare in a particular way or that an action can be wrong in virtue of constituting a failure to rescue. Furthermore, it also aims to show that a great deal of contemporary writing on the distribution of health care resources in cases of scarcity is targeted at questions that either have no answers at all or none that ordinary moral theorizing can uncover.