Slaves Of The Passions

Author : Mark Schroeder
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191538476

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Slaves of the Passions by Mark Schroeder Pdf

Long claimed to be the dominant conception of practical reason, the Humean theory that reasons for action are instrumental, or explained by desires, is the basis for a range of worries about the objective prescriptivity of morality. As a result, it has come under intense attack in recent decades. A wide variety of arguments have been advanced which purport to show that it is false, or surprisingly, even that it is incoherent. Slaves of the Passions aims to set the record straight, by advancing a version of the Humean theory of reasons which withstands this sophisticated array of objections. Mark Schroeder defends a radical new view which, if correct, means that the commitments of the Humean theory have been widely misunderstood. Along the way, he raises and addresses questions about the fundamental structure of reasons, the nature of normative explanations, the aims of and challenges facing reductive views in metaethics, the weight of reasons, the nature of desire, moral epistemology, and most importantly, the relationship between agent-relational and agent-neutral reasons for action.

Author : Mark Schroeder
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199299508

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Slaves of the Passions by Mark Schroeder Pdf

Mark Schroeder presents an original theory of reasons for action. This theory is broadly Humean, in holding that reasons for action are instrumental, or explained by desires. Slaves of the Passions will be essential reading for anyone interested in metaethics, practical reason, or explanatory moral theory.

Author : Mark Schroeder
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199299508

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Slaves of the Passions by Mark Schroeder Pdf

Long claimed to be the dominant conception of practical reason, the Humean theory that reasons for action are instrumental, or explained by desires, is the basis for a range of worries about the objective prescriptivity of morality. As a result, it has come under intense attack in recent decades. A wide variety of arguments have been advanced which purport to show that it is false, or surprisingly, even that it is incoherent. Slaves of the Passions aims to set the recordstraight, by advancing a version of the Humean theory of reasons which withstands this sophisticated array of objections.Mark Schroeder defends a radical new view which, if correct, means that the commitments of the Humean theory have been widely misunderstood. Along the way, he raises and addresses questions about the fundamental structure of reasons, the nature of normative explanations, the aims of and challenges facing reductive views in metaethics, the weight of reasons, the nature of desire, moral epistemology, and most importantly, the relationship between agent-relational and agent-neutral reasons foraction.

Author : Olli Koistinen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139827652

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The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza's Ethics by Olli Koistinen Pdf

Since its publication in 1677, Spinoza's Ethics has fascinated philosophers, novelists, and scientists alike. It is undoubtedly one of the most exciting and contested works of Western philosophy. Written in an austere, geometrical fashion, the work teaches us how we should live, ending with an ethics in which the only thing good in itself is understanding. Spinoza argues that only that which hinders us from understanding is bad and shows that those endowed with a human mind should devote themselves, as much as they can, to a contemplative life. This Companion volume provides a detailed, accessible exposition of the Ethics. Written by an internationally known team of scholars, it is the first anthology to treat the whole of the Ethics and is written in an accessible style.

Author : Edward Ball
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781466897496

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Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball Pdf

Fifteen years after its hardcover debut, the FSG Classics reissue of the celebrated work of narrative nonfiction that won the National Book Award and changed the American conversation about race, with a new preface by the author The Ball family hails from South Carolina—Charleston and thereabouts. Their plantations were among the oldest and longest-standing plantations in the South. Between 1698 and 1865, close to four thousand black people were born into slavery under the Balls or were bought by them. In Slaves in the Family, Edward Ball recounts his efforts to track down and meet the descendants of his family's slaves. Part historical narrative, part oral history, part personal story of investigation and catharsis, Slaves in the Family is, in the words of Pat Conroy, "a work of breathtaking generosity and courage, a magnificent study of the complexity and strangeness and beauty of the word ‘family.'"

Author : Nicolas W. Proctor
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813921747

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Bathed in Blood by Nicolas W. Proctor Pdf

The hunt, like the church, courthouse, and family, played an integral role in southern society and culture during the antebellum era. Regardless of color or class, southern men hunted. Although hunters always recognized the tangible gains of their mission—meat, hides, furs—they also used the hunt to communicate ideas of gender, race, class, masculinity, and community. Hunting was very much a social activity, and for many white hunters it became a drama in which they could display their capacity for mastery over women, blacks, the natural world, and their own passions. Nicolas Proctor argues in Bathed in Blood that because slaves frequently accompanied white hunters into the field, whites often believed that hunting was a particularly effective venue for the demonstration of white supremacy. Slaves interpreted such interactions quite differently: they remained focused on the products of the hunt and considered the labor performed at the behest of their owners as an opportunity to improve their own condition. Whether acquired as a reward from a white hunter or as a result of their own independent—often illicit—efforts, game provided them with an important supplementary food source, an item for trade, and a measure of autonomy. By sharing their valuable resources with other slaves, slave hunters also strengthened the bonds within their own community. In a society predicated upon the constant degradation of African Americans, such simple acts of generosity became symbolic of resistance and had a cohesive effect on slave families. Proctor forges a new understanding of the significance of hunting in the antebellum South through his analyses of a wealth of magazine articles and private papers, diaries, and correspondence.

Author : Susan Wright
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781471107573

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Dark Passions Book One by Susan Wright Pdf

Klingons and Cardassians rule the Alpha Quadrant in an uneasy alliance that hides a viper's nest of backstabbing plots and counterplots. Annika Hansen has become a trained operative for the Obsidian Order. Her latest target: Kira Nerys, the duplicitous Intendant of Bajor, whose ruthless ambition has brought her to a position of power second only to the Regent himself, the fierce Klingon warrior known as Worf. To get close to her prey, Annika must worm her way into the Intendant's notoriously fickle affections. Easy enough to accomplish, perhaps, but it remains to be seen who is truly manipulating whom....

Author : Frederic Lordon
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781781681619

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Willing Slaves Of Capital by Frederic Lordon Pdf

Why do people work for other people? This seemingly naïve question is at the heart of Lordon's argument. To complement Marx's partial answers, especially in the face of the disconcerting spectacle of the engaged, enthusiastic employee, Lordon brings to bear a "Spinozist anthropology" that reveals the fundamental role of affects and passions in the employment relationship, reconceptualizing capitalist exploitation as the capture and remolding of desire. A thoroughly materialist reading of Spinoza's Ethics allows Lordon to debunk all notions of individual autonomy and self-determination while simultaneously saving the ideas of political freedom and liberation from capitalist exploitation. Willing Slaves of Capital is a bold proposal to rethink capitalism and its transcendence on the basis of the contemporary experience of work.

Author : Kate Scott,Billy Clark,Robyn Carston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108418638

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Relevance, Pragmatics and Interpretation by Kate Scott,Billy Clark,Robyn Carston Pdf

Showcases recent research by leading scholars working within the relevance-theoretic pragmatics framework.

Author : Jacqueline Anne Taylor
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198729525

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Reflecting Subjects by Jacqueline Anne Taylor Pdf

Offers a reconstruction of Hume's social theory and examines his moral philosophy, account of social power, and system of ethics.

Author : Nicole Eustace
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807838792

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Passion Is the Gale by Nicole Eustace Pdf

At the outset of the eighteenth century, many British Americans accepted the notion that virtuous sociable feelings occurred primarily among the genteel, while sinful and selfish passions remained the reflexive emotions of the masses, from lower-class whites to Indians to enslaved Africans. Yet by 1776 radicals would propose a new universal model of human nature that attributed the same feelings and passions to all humankind and made common emotions the basis of natural rights. In Passion Is the Gale, Nicole Eustace describes the promise and the problems of this crucial social and political transition by charting changes in emotional expression among countless ordinary men and women of British America. From Pennsylvania newspapers, pamphlets, sermons, correspondence, commonplace books, and literary texts, Eustace identifies the explicit vocabulary of emotion as a medium of human exchange. Alternating between explorations of particular emotions in daily social interactions and assessments of emotional rhetoric's functions in specific moments of historical crisis (from the Seven Years War to the rise of the patriot movement), she makes a convincing case for the pivotal role of emotion in reshaping power relations and reordering society in the critical decades leading up to the Revolution. As Eustace demonstrates, passion was the gale that impelled Anglo-Americans forward to declare their independence--collectively at first, and then, finally, as individuals.

Author : Heikki Haara,Koen Stapelbroek,Mikko Immanen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110679960

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Passions, Politics and the Limits of Society by Heikki Haara,Koen Stapelbroek,Mikko Immanen Pdf

The 1st part of the volume engages with the theme of inclusion and exclusion in the history of ideas from different perspectives. The 2nd part of the volume discusses debates on natural law, human nature and political economy in early-modern Europe. Its contributions explore the sorts of political and moral visions that were relevant in post-Hobbesian moral philosophy and the development of economic thought.

Author : Évelyne Trouillot
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781496209344

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The Infamous Rosalie by Évelyne Trouillot Pdf

Lisette, a Saint-Domingue-born Creole slave and daughter of an African-born bossale, has inherited not only the condition of slavery but the traumatic memory of the Middle Passage as well. The stories told to her by her grandmother and godmother, including the horrific voyage aboard the infamous slave ship Rosalie, have become part of her own story, the one she tells in this haunting novel by the acclaimed Haitian writer Évelyne Trouillot. Inspired by the colonial tale of an African midwife who kept a cord of some seventy knots, each one marking a child she had killed at birth, the novel transports us back to Saint-Domingue, before it became Haiti. The year is 1750, and a rash of poisonings is sowing fear among the plantation masters, already unsettled by the unrest caused by Makandal, the legendary Maroon leader. Through this tumultuous time, Lisette struggles to maintain her dignity and to imagine a future for her unborn child. In telling Lisette's story, Trouillot gives the revolution that will soon rock the island a human face and at long last sheds light on the invisible women and men of Haitian history. The original French edition of Rosalie l'infâme received the Prix Soroptimist de la romancière francophone, honoring a novel written by a woman from a French-speaking country which showcases the cultural and literary diversity of the French-speaking world.

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781425000868

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Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle Pdf

Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics" is considered to be one of the most important treatises on ethics ever written. In an incredibly detailed study of virtue and vice in man, Aristotle examines one of the most central themes to man, the nature of goodness itself. In Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics," he asserts that virtue is essential to happiness and that man must live in accordance with the "doctrine of the mean" (the balance between excess and deficiency) to achieve such happiness.

Author : Patrick Hamilton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : England
ISBN : 0141181648

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The Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton Pdf