Virtuous And Vicious Expressions Of Partiality

Author : Eric J. Silverman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781003812579

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This volume gathers essays from leading scholars to discuss partiality in ethics. The chapters examine the virtuous and vicious ways in which we relate to those close to us. There has long been a puzzle in ethics concerning the balance between our general moral obligations to everyone and our specific moral obligations to a smaller subset of people: our family, our nation, and our friends. There has been longstanding tension between the moral intuition that equality entails that we have the same moral duties to everyone and the moral intuition that special obligations entail that we have much greater duties to those close to us. The chapters in this volume discuss varying perspectives on partiality within a wide range of relationships. Section 1 offers overarching visions of partiality. Section 2 examines how roles and relationships might shape partiality. Section 3 focuses on the potential moral dangers and pitfalls of partiality. Finally, Section 4 looks at specific applications of partiality expressed as our loyalty to country, religion, sports teams, and employers. Virtuous and Vicious Expressions of Partiality will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in ethics, social and political philosophy, and philosophy of religion.

Author : Eric J. Silverman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12
Category : Fairness
ISBN : 1003393446

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Virtuous and Vicious Expressions of Partiality by Eric J. Silverman Pdf

"This volume gathers essays from leading scholars to discuss partiality in ethics. The chapters examine the virtuous and vicious ways in which we relate to those close to us. There has long been a puzzle in ethics concerning the balance between our general moral obligations to everyone and our specific moral obligations to a smaller subset of people: our family, our nation, and our friends. There has been longstanding tension between the moral intuition that equality entails that we have the same moral duties to everyone and the moral intuition that special obligations entail that we have much greater duties to those close to us. The chapters in this volume discuss varying perspectives on partiality within a wide range of relationships. Part 1 offers overarching visions of partiality. Part 2 examines how roles and relationships might shape partiality. Part 3 focused upon the potential moral dangers and pitfalls of partiality. Finally, Part 4 looks at specific applications of partiality expressed as our loyalty to country, religion, sports teams, and employers. Virtuous and Vicious Expressions of Partiality will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in ethics, social and political philosophy, and philosophy of religion"--

Author : Stephen Kershnar
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781003817147

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Responsibility Collapses by Stephen Kershnar Pdf

Our worldview assumes that people are morally responsible. Our emotions, beliefs, and values assume that a person is responsible for what she thinks and does, and that this is a good thing. This book argues that this worldview is false. It provides four arguments for this conclusion that build on the free will and responsibility literatures in original and insightful ways: 1. Foundation: No one is responsible because there is no foundation for responsibility. A foundation for responsibility is something for which a person is responsible but not by being responsible for something else. 2. Epistemic Condition: No one is responsible because no one fulfills the epistemic condition necessary for blameworthiness. 3. Internalism: If a person were responsible, then she would be responsible for, and only for, what goes on in her head. Most of the evidence for responsibility says the opposite. 4. Amount: No one is responsible because we cannot make sense of what makes a person more or less praiseworthy (or blameworthy). There is no other book that argues against moral responsibility based on foundationalism, the epistemic condition, and internalism and shows that these arguments cohere. The book’s arguments for internalism and quantifying responsibility are new to the literature. Ultimately, the book’s conclusions undermine our commonsense view of the world and the most common philosophical understanding of God, morality, and relationships. Responsibility Collapses: Why Moral Responsibility Is Impossible is essential reading for scholars and advanced students in philosophy, religious studies, and political science who are interested in debates about agency, free will, and moral responsibility.

Author : Michael Robert Kelly
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781003851479

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A Phenomenological Analysis of Envy by Michael Robert Kelly Pdf

This book provides a phenomenological analysis of envy. The author’s account takes a descriptive look at the whole experience of envy as it pertains to the envier’s sense of self and the envied. Philosophical work on envy has predominately focused on how the envier perceives, thinks about, or schemes against the person envied. This book proposes a phenomenological analysis of envy that articulates its essentially comparative character according to which we can further incorporate the role of the envier. This approach offers a novel contribution in three ways. First, it develops a notion of two predominant ways in which envy expresses itself: one that is bad for the envied and the other that is bad for the envier. Second, it renews the traditional defense of the view that envy is bad or vicious. Third, it provides original phenomenological descriptions of differences between envy and covetousness, indignation, emulation, ressentiment, and jealousy. By drawing on literary sources and social scientific literature, the author provides concrete examples of the lived experience of an envier. A Phenomenological Analysis of Envy will appeal to researchers and advanced students working in ethics, moral psychology, phenomenology, and philosophy of emotion.

Author : Elaine M. McGirr
Publisher : Springer
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137027191

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Partial Histories by Elaine M. McGirr Pdf

This book explores the multiple portrayals of the actor and theatre manager Colley Cibber, king of the dunces, professional fop, defacer of Shakespeare and the cruel and unforgiving father of Charlotte Charke. But these portraits of Cibber are doubly partial, exposing even as they paper over gaps and biases in the archive while reflecting back modern desires and methodologies. The Colley Cibber ‘everybody knows’ has been variously constructed through the rise of English literature as both a cultural enterprise and an academic discipline, a process which made Shakespeare the ‘nation’s poet’ and canonised Cibber’s enemies Pope and Fielding; theatre history’s narrative of the birth of naturalism; and the reclamation and celebration of Charlotte Charke by women’s literary history. Each of these stories requires a Colley Cibber to be its butt, antithesis, and/or bête noir. This monograph challenges these partial histories and returns the theatre manager, playwright, poet laureate and bon viveur to the centre of eighteenth-century culture and cultural studies.

Author : Thomas Brown,David Welsh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010319890

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Lectures on the Philosophy of the Mind by Thomas Brown,David Welsh Pdf

Author : Thomas Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600043654

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Lectures on the philosophy of the human mind by Thomas Brown Pdf

Author : Wilfred Carr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000446104

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The RoutledgeFalmer Reader in the Philosophy of Education by Wilfred Carr Pdf

This Reader brings together a wide range of material to present an international perspective on topical issues in philosophy of education today. Focusing on the enduring trends in this field, this lively and informative Reader provides broad coverage of the field and includes crucial topics. With an emphasis on contemporary pieces that deal with issues relevant to the immediate real world, this book represents the research and views of some of the most respected authors in the field today. Wilfred Carr also provides a specially written introduction which provides a much-needed context to the role of philosophy in the current educational climate. Students of philosophy and philosophy of education will find this Reader an important route map to further reading and understanding.

Author : Thomas Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 838 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1828
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : MINN:31951000886777O

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Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind, with a Memoir of the Author by the Rev. David Welsh, Minister of St. David's, Glasgow by Thomas Brown Pdf

Author : Ludvig Beckman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351323864

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Virtues of Independence and Dependence on Virtues by Ludvig Beckman Pdf

Debate about the concept of virtue is a persistent theme in academic discourse. One strand of thinking attempts to examine and reconstruct ethical theories with the aim of formulating a new morality or ethics. A second strand of thought, more strongly represented in this work, attempts to explore the social and political world deploying the concept of virtue. Thus, this volume crosses the established borders of academic disciplines in order to provide a richer and more comprehensive understanding of the place of virtues in contemporary western societies.The editors hold that the dominating virtue of our culture and society is the virtue of independence. Yet independence, or individual autonomy, is contingent upon a diverse, and so far ill-understood, set of cultural, biological, economic, ethical, and political practices. The idea of individuality is in other words supervening on a web of formal and informal relations. This volume therefore attempts to improve our understanding of the prevailing ethos of independence as well as of the mechanisms and practices sustaining it.Virtues are examined in specific contexts. Authors explore what we can learn about our dependence on virtues from the archaic Greek culture. They examine the relevance of virtue-ethics to the understanding of day-to-day practices. And they look at the place of virtues in understanding the norms of independence and liberty. Other contributions attend to the virtues of independence and its challenges, examining possible philosophical challenges, questioning whether independence is always a virtue, and how the virtues of justice fare given a commitment to the virtues of independence.The final portion of the book explore the empirical consequences of the virtues of independence. Among the questions addressed are how personal independence affects political and economic institutions, and the connections between norms of independence and the growth of modernity. This volume is an important contribution to contemporary understanding of what constitutes virtuous and ethical behavior.

Author : Allan Hazlett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199674800

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A Luxury of the Understanding by Allan Hazlett Pdf

Allan Hazlett challenges the philosophical assumption of the value of true belief. He critiques the view that true belief is better for us than false belief, and the view that truth is "the aim of belief". An alternative picture is provided, on which the fact that some people love truth is all there is to "the value of true belief".

Author : Ann Mongoven
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 882 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253003188

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Just Love by Ann Mongoven Pdf

Once upon a time, civic virtue described an ethic of political involvement for all citizens. As American democracy evolved, however, the public and private spheres separated. The latter became domesticated and disengaged from public life by an ideology based on gender and a "disinterested love" of neighbor. Private passion was to be isolated from public reason, private love from public justice. But it need not be so. Drawing on examples of ordinary heroes, Ann Mongoven argues for a transformed civic virtue that articulates "just love": passionate care for fellow citizens as such. By connecting theory to practice, Mongoven dramatizes the challenges raised through tangible political examples and lets ordinary heroes suggest the path toward civic renewal.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 822 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555032337

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Tait's Edinburgh magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : William Tait,Christian Isobel Johnstone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433081663332

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Tait's Edinburgh Magazine by William Tait,Christian Isobel Johnstone Pdf

Author : Andrew Lincoln
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009366557

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Imagining War and Peace in Eighteenth-Century Britain, 1690–1820 by Andrew Lincoln Pdf

Is war the opposite of peace, or its necessary accomplice? Exploring this question in relation to eighteenth-century Britain, Andrew Lincoln opens up complex, paradoxical and enduring issues and shows how ideas and methods were developed to provide the British public with moral insulation from violence both overseas and at home.