The Limits Of Moral Authority

Author : Dale Dorsey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191044724

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Dale Dorsey considers one of the most fundamental questions in philosophical ethics: to what extent do the demands of morality have normative authority over us and our lives? Must we conform to moral requirements? Most who have addressed this question have treated the normative significance of morality as simply a fact to be explained. But Dorsey argues that this traditional assumption is misguided. According to Dorsey, not only are we not required to conform to moral demands, conforming to morality's demands will not always even be normatively permissible—-moral behavior can be (quite literally) wrong. This view is significant not only for understanding the content and force of the moral point of view, but also for understanding the basic elements of how one ought to live.

Author : Dale Dorsey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191044717

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Dale Dorsey considers one of the most fundamental questions in philosophical ethics: to what extent do the demands of morality have normative authority over us and our lives? Must we conform to moral requirements? Most who have addressed this question have treated the normative significance of morality as simply a fact to be explained. But Dorsey argues that this traditional assumption is misguided. According to Dorsey, not only are we not required to conform to moral demands, conforming to morality's demands will not always even be normatively permissible—-moral behavior can be (quite literally) wrong. This view is significant not only for understanding the content and force of the moral point of view, but also for understanding the basic elements of how one ought to live.

Author : Richard T. De George
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015009073597

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The Nature and Limits of Authority by Richard T. De George Pdf

Author : Theodore L. Brown
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780271050935

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Imperfect Oracle by Theodore L. Brown Pdf

Science and its offshoot, technology, enter into the very fabric of our society in so many ways that we cannot imagine life without them. We are surrounded by crises and debates over climate change, stem-cell research, AIDS, evolutionary theory and “intelligent design,” the use of DNA in solving crimes, and many other issues. Society is virtually forced to follow our natural tendency, which is to give great weight to the opinions of scientific experts. How is it that these experts have come to acquire such authority, and just how far does their authority reach? Does specialized knowledge entitle scientists to moral authority as well? How does scientific authority actually function in our society, and what are the countervailing social forces (including those deriving from law, politics, and religion) with which it has to contend? Theodore Brown seeks to answer such questions in this magisterial work of synthesis about the role of science in society. In Part I, he elucidates the concept of authority and its relation to autonomy, and then traces the historical growth of scientific authority and its place in contemporary American society. In Part II, he analyzes how scientific authority plays out in relation to other social domains, such as law, religion, government, and the public sphere.

Author : A. John Simmons
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190603496

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Boundaries of Authority by A. John Simmons Pdf

Modern states claim rights of jurisdiction and control over particular geographical areas and their associated natural resources. Boundaries of Authority explores the possible moral bases for such territorial claims by states, in the process arguing that many of these territorial claims in fact lack any moral justification. The book maintains throughout that the requirement of states' justified authority over persons has normative priority over, and as a result severely restricts, the kinds of territorial rights that states can justifiably claim, and it argues that the mere effective administration of justice within a geographical area is insufficient to ground moral authority over residents of that area. The book argues that only a theory of territorial rights that takes seriously the morality of the actual history of states' acquisitions of power over land and the land's residents can adequately explain the nature and extent of states' moral rights over particular territories. Part I of the book examines the interconnections between states' claimed rights of authority over particular sets of subject persons and states' claimed authority to control particular territories. It contains an extended critique of the dominant "Kantian functionalist" approach to such issues. Part II organizes, explains, and criticizes the full range of extant theories of states' territorial rights, arguing that a little-appreciated Lockean approach to territorial rights is in fact far better able to meet the principal desiderata for such theories. Where the first two parts of the book concern primarily states' claims to jurisdiction over territories, Part III of the book looks closely at the more property-like territorial rights that states claim - in particular, their claimed rights to control over the natural resources on and beneath their territories and their claimed rights to control and restrict movement across (including immigration over) their territorial borders.

Author : Stephen Darwall
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199662586

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Morality, Authority, and Law by Stephen Darwall Pdf

Stephen Darwall presents a series of essays that explore the view that morality is second-personal, entailing mutual accountability and the authority to address demands. He illustrates the power of the second-personal framework to illuminate a wide variety of issues in moral, political, and legal philosophy.

Author : Russell Blackford
Publisher : Springer
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137562708

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The Mystery of Moral Authority by Russell Blackford Pdf

The Mystery of Moral Authority argues for a sceptical and pragmatic view of morality as an all-too-human institution. Searching, intellectually rigorous, and always fair to rival views, it represents the state of the art in a tradition of moral philosophy that includes Thomas Hobbes, David Hume, and J.L. Mackie.

Author : Andy Scerri
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781438472157

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Postpolitics and the Limits of Nature by Andy Scerri Pdf

Explores why past generations of radical ecological and social justice scholarship have been ineffective, and considers the work of a new wave of scholarship that aims to reinvent the radical project and combat injustice. In Postpolitics and the Limits of Nature, Andy Scerri offers a comprehensive overview of the critical theory project from the 1960s to the present, refracted through the lens of US politics and the American Left. He examines why past generations of radical ecological and social justice scholarship have been ineffective in the fight against injustice and rampant environmental exploitation. Scerri then engages a new wave of radicals and reformists who, in the wake of the Occupy movement and the 2016 presidential election, are reinventing the radical project as a challenge to injustice in the Anthropocene era. Along the way, he provides a fresh account of the thought of one of the major contributors to critical theory, Theodor Adorno, and of recent work that seeks to link Adorno’s ideas to the so-called new realism in political philosophy and political theory. Andy Scerri is Assistant Professor of Politics at Virginia Tech and author of Greening Citizenship: Sustainable Development, the State and Ideology.

Author : Susan M. Ryan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780190274030

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The Moral Economies of American Authorship by Susan M. Ryan Pdf

The Moral Economies of American Authorship argues that the moral character of authors became a kind of literary property within mid-nineteenth-century America's expanding print marketplace, shaping the construction, promotion, and reception of texts as well as of literary reputations. Using a wide range of printed materials--prefaces, dedications, and other paratexts as well as book reviews, advertisements, and editorials that appeared in the era's magazines and newspapers--The Moral Economies of American Authorship recovers and analyzes the circulation of authors' moral currency, attending not only to the marketing of apparently ironclad status but also to the period's not-infrequent author scandals and ensuing attempts at recuperation. These preoccupations prove to be more than a historical curiosity--they prefigure the complex (if often disavowed) interdependence of authorial character and literary value in contemporary scholarship and pedagogy. Combining broad investigations into the marketing and reception of books with case studies that analyze the construction and repair of particular authors' reputations (e.g., James Fenimore Cooper, Mary Prince, Elizabeth Keckley, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and E.D.E.N. Southworth), the book constructs a genealogy of the field's investments in and uses of authorial character. In the nineteenth century's deployment of moral character as a signal element in the marketing, reception, and canonization of books and authors, we see how biography both vexed and created literary status, adumbrating our own preoccupations while demonstrating how malleable--and how recuperable--moral authority could be.

Author : Ben Kimpel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Ethics
ISBN : UCAL:B3932497

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Faith and Moral Authority by Ben Kimpel Pdf

Author : Seth M. Limmer,Jonah Dov Pesner
Publisher : CCAR Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780881233193

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Moral Resistance and Spiritual Authority by Seth M. Limmer,Jonah Dov Pesner Pdf

This foundational new book reminds us of our ancient obligation to bring justice to the world. The essays in this collection explore the spiritual underpinnings of our Jewish commitment to justice, using Jewish text and tradition, as well as contemporary sources and models. Among the topics covered are women's health, LGBTQ rights, healthcare, racial justice, speaking truth to power, and community organizing.

Author : Marcel van Ackeren,Michael Kühler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317581307

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The Limits of Moral Obligation by Marcel van Ackeren,Michael Kühler Pdf

This volume responds to the growing interest in finding explanations for why moral claims may lose their validity based on what they ask of their addressees. Two main ideas relate to that question: the moral demandingness objection and the principle "ought implies can." Though both of these ideas can be understood to provide an answer to the same question, they have usually been discussed separately in the philosophical literature. The aim of this collection is to provide a focused and comprehensive discussion of these two ideas and the ways in which they relate to one another, and to take a closer look at the consequences for the limits of moral normativity in general. Chapters engage with contemporary discussions surrounding "ought implies can" as well as current debates on moral demandingness, and argue that applying the moral demandingness objection to the entire range of normative ethical theories also calls for an analysis of its (metaethical) presuppositions. The contributions to this volume are at the leading edge of ethical theory, and have implications for moral theorists, philosophers of action, and those working in metaethics, theoretical ethics and applied ethics.

Author : Andrew W. Dobelstein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429978463

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Moral Authority, Ideology, And The Future Of American Social Welfare by Andrew W. Dobelstein Pdf

This book suggests how welfare can be re-formed by taking the American ideological context as a road map for which welfare changes are possible and which are not, laying out a framework for welfare as America enters the twenty-first century.

Author : Kent J. Kille
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781589014732

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The UN Secretary-General and Moral Authority by Kent J. Kille Pdf

Once described by Trygve Lie as the "most impossible job on earth," the position of UN Secretary-General is as frustratingly constrained as it is prestigious. The Secretary-General's ability to influence global affairs often depends on how the international community regards his moral authority. In relation to such moral authority, past office-holders have drawn on their own ethics and religious backgrounds—as diverse as Lutheranism, Catholicism, Buddhism, and Coptic Christianity—to guide the role that they played in addressing the UN's goals in the international arena, such as the maintenance of international peace and security and the promotion of human rights. In The UN Secretary-General and Moral Authority, contributors provide case studies of all seven former secretaries-general, establishing a much-needed comparative survey of each office-holder's personal religious and moral values. From Trygve Lie's forbearance during the UN's turbulent formative years to the Nobel committee's awarding Kofi Annan and the United Nations the prize for peace in 2001, the case studies all follow the same format, first detailing the environmental and experiential factors that forged these men's ethical frameworks, then analyzing how their "inner code" engaged with the duties of office and the global events particular to their terms. Balanced and unbiased in its approach, this study provides valuable insight into how religious and moral leadership functions in the realm of international relations, and how the promotion of ethical values works to diffuse international tensions and improve the quality of human life around the world.

Author : Shelly Kagan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 54,6 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.