Subordinated Ethics

Author : Caitlin Smith Gilson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532686399

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Subordinated Ethics by Caitlin Smith Gilson Pdf

With Dostoyevsky’s Idiot and Aquinas’ Dumb Ox as guides, this book seeks to recover the elemental mystery of the natural law, a law revealed only in wonder. If ethics is to guide us along the way, it must recover its subordination; description must precede prescription. If ethics is to invite us along the way, it cannot lead, either as politburo, or even as public orthodoxy. It cannot be smugly symbolic but must be by way of signage, of directionality, of the open realization that ethical meaning is en route, pointing the way because it is within the way, as only sign, not symbol, can point to the sacramental terminus. The courtesies of dogma and tradition are the road signs and guideposts along the longior via, not themselves the termini. We seek the dialogic heart of the natural law through two seemingly contradictory voices and approaches: St. Thomas Aquinas and his famous five ways, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s holy idiot, Prince Myshkin. It is precisely the apparent miscellany of these selected voices that provide us with a connatural invitation into the natural law as subordinated, as descriptive guide, not as prescriptive leader.

Author : Robert Heinaman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351910750

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Plato and Aristotle's Ethics by Robert Heinaman Pdf

This volume, emanating from the Fourth Keeling Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, presents essays and comments by nine outstanding scholars of ancient philosophy, which examine the influence of Plato on the development of Aristotle's ethics. The essays focus on the role of pleasure in happiness and the good life (Christopher Taylor and Sarah Broadie), the irreducibility of ethical concepts to value-neutral concepts (Anthony Price and Sarah Broadie), the relation of virtue to happiness (Roger Crisp and Christopher Rowe, Terry Irwin and Sir Anthony Kenny), the role of the requirement of self-sufficiency in determining the content of happiness (John Cooper and Sir Anthony Kenny), and the question of whether the just man should be a participant in the political life of his city (Richard Kraut and Christopher Rowe).

Author : Erica Benner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400831845

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Machiavelli's Ethics by Erica Benner Pdf

Machiavelli's Ethics challenges the most entrenched understandings of Machiavelli, arguing that he was a moral and political philosopher who consistently favored the rule of law over that of men, that he had a coherent theory of justice, and that he did not defend the "Machiavellian" maxim that the ends justify the means. By carefully reconstructing the principled foundations of his political theory, Erica Benner gives the most complete account yet of Machiavelli's thought. She argues that his difficult and puzzling style of writing owes far more to ancient Greek sources than is usually recognized, as does his chief aim: to teach readers not how to produce deceptive political appearances and rhetoric, but how to see through them. Drawing on a close reading of Greek authors--including Thucydides, Xenophon, Plato, and Plutarch--Benner identifies a powerful and neglected key to understanding Machiavelli. This important new interpretation is based on the most comprehensive study of Machiavelli's writings to date, including a detailed examination of all of his major works: The Prince, The Discourses, The Art of War, and Florentine Histories. It helps explain why readers such as Bacon and Rousseau could see Machiavelli as a fellow moral philosopher, and how they could view The Prince as an ethical and republican text. By identifying a rigorous structure of principles behind Machiavelli's historical examples, the book should also open up fresh debates about his relationship to later philosophers, including Rousseau, Hobbes, and Kant.

Author : Damien Keown
Publisher : Springer
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781349220922

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The Nature of Buddhist Ethics by Damien Keown Pdf

In this book the author considers data from both early and later schools of Buddhism in an attempt to provide an overall characterization of the structure of Buddhist ethics. The importance of ethics in the Buddha's teachings is widely acknowledged, but the pursuit of ethical ideals has up to now been widely held to be secondary to the attainment of knowledge. Drawing on the Aristotelian tradition of ethics the author argues against this intellectualization of Buddhism and in favour of a new understanding of the tradition in terms of which ethics plays an absolutely central role. In the course of this reassessment many basic concepts such as karma, nirvana, and the Eightfold Path, are reviewed and presented in a fresh light. The book will be of interest to readers with a background in either Buddhist studies or comparative religious ethics.

Author : Miguel A. De La Torre,Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780664236809

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Beyond the Pale by Miguel A. De La Torre,Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas Pdf

How should Augustine, Aquinas, Bonhoeffer, Kant, Nietzsche, and Plato be read today, in light of postcolonial theory and twenty-first-century understandings? This book offers a reader-friendly introduction to Christian liberationist ethics by having scholars "from the margins" explore how questions of race and gender should be brought to bear on twenty-four classic ethicists and philosophers. Each short chapter gives historical background for the thinker, describes that thinker's most important contributions, then raises issues of concern for women and persons of color. Contributors include George (Tink) Tinker, Asante U. Todd, Traci West, Darryl Trimiew, Ada María Isasi-Díaz, Robyn Henderson-Espinoza, and many others.

Author : Frederick C. Beiser
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192666772

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Johann Friedrich Herbart by Frederick C. Beiser Pdf

Though little known today, Johann Friedrich Herbart was one of the leading philosophers of his age, the competitor of Schelling and Hegel. Although he was trained by Fichte, Herbart soon became a critic of the idealist tradition and developed a philosophy antithetical to it. His own philosophy was opposed to the idealist tradition in important respects: he defended a dualism between the factual and normative; he was an ontological pluralist rather than monist; and he accepted crucial Kantian dualisms that had been rejected by the idealists. Herbart was also an important forerunner of analytic philosophy, first in breaking with the idealist tradition, and second in insisting that the proper method of philosophy is the analysis of concepts rather than speculation about the universe as a whole. In the first intellectual biography of Herbart in English, Frederick C. Beiser studies the development of one of 19th-century Germany's most important philosophers, from his education in Oldenburg and Jena to his final years in Göttingen.

Author : Tim Stuart-Buttle
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198835585

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From Moral Theology to Moral Philosophy by Tim Stuart-Buttle Pdf

The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries represent a period of remarkable intellectual vitality in British philosophy, as figures such as Hobbes, Locke, Hume, and Smith attempted to explain the origins and sustaining mechanisms of civil society. Their insights continue to inform how political and moral theorists think about the world in which we live. From Moral Theology to Moral Philosophy reconstructs a debate which preoccupied contemporaries but which seems arcane to us today. It concerned the relationship between reason and revelation as the two sources of mankind's knowledge, particularly in the ethical realm: to what extent, they asked, could reason alone discover the content and obligatory character of morality? This was held to be a historical, rather than a merely theoretical question: had the philosophers of pre-Christian antiquity, ignorant of Christ, been able satisfactorily to explain the moral universe? What role had natural theology played in their ethical theories - and was it consistent with the teachings delivered by revelation? Much recent scholarship has drawn attention to the early-modern interest in two late Hellenistic philosophical traditions - Stoicism and Epicureanism. Yet in the English context, three figures above all - John Locke, Conyers Middleton, and David Hume - quite deliberately and explicitly identified their approaches with Cicero as the representative of an alternative philosophical tradition, critical of both the Stoic and the Epicurean: academic scepticism. All argued that Cicero provided a means of addressing what they considered to be the most pressing question facing contemporary philosophy: the relationship between moral philosophy and moral theology.

Author : Peggy DesAutels,Joanne Waugh
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0742512118

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Feminists Doing Ethics by Peggy DesAutels,Joanne Waugh Pdf

As the initial book in the Feminist Constructions series, Feminists Doing Ethics broaches the ideas of critiquing social practice and developing an ethics of universal justness. The essays collected within explore the intricacies and impact of reasoned moral action, the virtues of character, and the empowering responsibility that comes with morality. These and other essays were taken from Feminist Ethics Revisited: An International Conference on Feminist Ethics held in October of 1999. Waugh and DesAutels bring to light in these pages work discussed at this conference that extends our understanding of morality and ourselves. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 41,5 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 : Paul Carus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Religion
ISBN : NYPL:33433081667218

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The Open Court by Paul Carus Pdf

Author : Robin May Schott,Kirsten Klercke
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 8763505037

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Philosophy on the Border by Robin May Schott,Kirsten Klercke Pdf

This anthology is inspired by the conviction that the big questions of human existence, including matters of love and hate, responsibility and war, matter to us both as individuals and as citizens of a global order. Hence, these questions ought to matter to philosophers as well. In exploring these questions, the authors follow the ethical turn in philosophy, which transgresses the boundaries between philosophical thought and empirical existence, as well as between philosophy and other disciplines. The central themes of the anthology focus on the relation between self and other, between ambiguity and ambivalence, and between the problem of evil and responses to it. The authors discuss these themes in relation to concrete issues in the present, including colonialism, immigration and national policies towards refugees, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, genocide, and mass rape. The contributors to this anthology, who come from a variety of national backgrounds, work in the fields of philosophy, psychology, and Holocaust studies.

Author : International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. World Congress
Publisher : Franz Steiner Verlag
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Law
ISBN : 3515079033

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Applied Ethics at the Turn of the Millenium by International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. World Congress Pdf

Burton M. Leiser: Preface Elspeth Attwooll / Annette Brockmoller: Preface Rafael Encinas de Munagorri: Les Problemes de preuve poses par l'evolution des sciences et des technologies Richard A. L. Gambitta / Gary S. Kitchen: Genetic Engineering and the Law Mariachiara Tallacchini: The Patentability of Human Biological Materials Joan C. Callahan: Liberalism, Reproductive Technologies, and Feminist Skepticism Gerry Maher: Future Trends in Computer-Generated Pornography: Ethical Principle and Legal Regulation of "Bespoke" Pornography Fernando Galindo: La puesta en practica de la regulacion de Internet por la Filosofia del Derecho comunicativa Richard T. De George: Business Ethics and The International Legal Coordination Problem Takao Katsuragi: On Multi-Value Structure or Market Ethics Francois Ost / Mark van Hoecke: From contract to transmission Robert Isaak: Philosophical Bases of "Green Logic"

Author : Clifford G. Christians,Michael Traber
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1997-01-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781506338767

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Communication Ethics and Universal Values by Clifford G. Christians,Michael Traber Pdf

This volume is designed to revolutionize the field of communication by identifying a broad ethical theory which transcends the world of mass media practice to reveal a more humane and responsible code of values. The contributors, representing a diverse range of intercultural perspectives, defend the possibility of universal moral imperatives such as justice, reciprocity and human dignity. Through an examination of the values in which their cultures are grounded, they provide a short list of ethical principles which form the common ground from which to view contemporary issues in the media, interpersonal communication, mediation and conflict resolution.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11821561

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International Journal of Ethics by Anonim Pdf

Author : James Lorimer
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783382330910

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Political Progress not necessarily Democratic by James Lorimer Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1857. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.