Three Philosophical Moralists

Author : George C. Kerner
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Ethics
ISBN : UCSD:31822006729479

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Three Philosophical Moralists by George C. Kerner Pdf

This book is a unique and up-to-date introduction to moral philosophy. Kerner defines ethics as the study of what makes life worth living and gives it meaning. Rather than cataloging how various ethical theories bear on ethical issues, he poses the central question: is objective moral knowlege possible? To address that question, he provides an exacting analysis of the works of Mill, Kant, and Sartre, and finally agrees with Sartre that such knowlege is not possible; in morality there are no objective answers but only questions direted at our deep subjectivity.

Author : Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1709
Category : Ethics
ISBN : ONB:+Z179575805

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The Moralists by Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : The Minerva Group, Inc.
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1410217205

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The Classical Moralists by Anonim Pdf

The Classical Moralists is a companion volume in the field of ethics, to the author's Modern Classical Philosophers in the domain of philosophy. The book is virtually a history of ethics, based not upon the ordinary description of systems, but upon selections from the original sources and upon translations of the authors themselves. In 1882 the president and fellows of Harvard elected him to the Walker Fellowship which permitted him to travel and study abroad. He proceeded at once to Heidelberg where he studied under the celebrated philosopher Kuno Fischer. Before returning home he travelled much in Germany, Switzerland, Italy and France. Dr. Rand is the third man whom Harvard ever admitted to the degree of Ph.D. in the department of philosophy. His thesis presented for this degree was "Consciousness and Immortality." He made outstanding contributions in Philosophy and he was internationally known as a Philosopher.

Author : Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1727
Category : Characters and characteristics
ISBN : HARVARD:HW3PYP

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An inquiry concerning virtue and merit. The moralists; a philosophical rhapsody by Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury Pdf

Author : Anthony Ashley Cooper of Shaftesbury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1711
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z17957560X

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Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times by Anthony Ashley Cooper of Shaftesbury Pdf

Author : Michael B. Gill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006-07-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139458290

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The British Moralists on Human Nature and the Birth of Secular Ethics by Michael B. Gill Pdf

Uncovering the historical roots of naturalistic, secular contemporary ethics, in this volume Michael Gill shows how the British moralists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries completed a Copernican revolution in moral philosophy. They effected a shift from thinking of morality as independent of human nature to thinking of it as part of human nature itself. He also shows how the British Moralists - sometimes inadvertently, sometimes by design - disengaged ethical thinking, first from distinctly Christian ideas and then from theistic commitments altogether. Examining in detail the arguments of Whichcote, Cudworth, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson against Calvinist conceptions of original sin and egoistic conceptions of human motivation, Gill also demonstrates how Hume combined the ideas of earlier British moralists with his own insights to produce an account of morality and human nature that undermined some of his predecessors' most deeply held philosophical goals.

Author : David Daiches Raphael
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0872201171

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British Moralists, 1650-1800: Hume by David Daiches Raphael Pdf

"These two attractive volumes replace Selby-Bigge's well-known collection. . . . The present selection is superior in several respects. It is more inclusive, now that Hume, Hartley, Reid, and Cumberland are put in. . . . It is better arranged, the writers now appearing in chronological order. And besides reediting of the texts, the analytical index has been enormously enlarged and improved. . . . The book will be much more useful to students than its predecessor." -- British Book News

Author : Dorothea Krook
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521228862

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Three Traditions of Moral Thought by Dorothea Krook Pdf

The basis of this 1959 book was a course of lectures given at Cambridge University entitled Three Traditions of Moral Thought: Platonic-Christian; Utilitarian; Humanist. Designed for students of literature, and maintaining the accessible structure of the original lectures, it provides an introduction to English moral thought and the problems of moral philosophy.

Author : Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1900
Category : Characters and characteristics
ISBN : UIUC:30112039462293

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The moralists, a philosophical rhapsody. Miscellaneous reflections on the preceding treatises by Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury Pdf

Author : William Leonard Courtney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Ethics
ISBN : UOM:39015039351187

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Constructive Ethics by William Leonard Courtney Pdf

Author : Paul Ramsey
Publisher : Lanham, MD : University Press of America
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : NWU:35556017118555

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Nine Modern Moralists by Paul Ramsey Pdf

Author : Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1723
Category : Characters and characteristics
ISBN : OCLC:22000010

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An inquiry concerning virtue, or merit. The moralists: a philosophical rhapsody by Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury Pdf

Author : Stephen Darwall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780429966903

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Philosophical Ethics by Stephen Darwall Pdf

This book shows how Hobbes, Mill, Kant, Aristotle, and Nietzsche all did ethical philosophy? It introduces students to ethics from a distinctively philosophical perspective, one that weaves together central ethical questions.

Author : Roger Crisp
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192576958

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Sacrifice Regained by Roger Crisp Pdf

Does being virtuous make you happy? In this book, Roger Crisp examines the answers to this ancient question provided by the so-called 'British Moralists', from Thomas Hobbes, around 1650, for the next two hundred years, until Jeremy Bentham. This involves elucidating their views on happiness (self-interest, or well-being) and on virtue (or morality), in order to bring out the relation of each to the other. Themes ran through many of these writers: psychological egoism, evaluative hedonism, and - after Hobbes - the acceptance of self-standing moral reasons. But there are exceptions, and even those taking the standard views adopt them for very different reasons and express them in various ways. As the ancients tended to believe that virtue and happiness largely coincide, so these modern authors are inclined to accept posthumous reward and punishment. Both positions sit uneasily with the common-sense idea that a person can truly sacrifice their own good for the sake of morality or for others. Roger Crisp shows that David Hume - a hedonist whose ethics made no appeal to the afterlife - was the first major British moralist to allow for, indeed to recommend, such self-sacrifice. Morality and well-being of course remain central to modern ethics, and Crisp demonstrates how much there is to learn from this remarkable group of philosophers.

Author : Sir Lewis Amherst Selby-Bigge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Ethics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105046736927

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British Moralists by Sir Lewis Amherst Selby-Bigge Pdf