Wealth Virtue And Moral Luck

Author : Kate Ward
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Christian ethics
ISBN : 9781647121389

Get Book

Wealth, Virtue, and Moral Luck by Kate Ward Pdf

"In this book, Kate Ward addresses the issue of inequality from the perspective of Christian virtue ethics. Her unique contribution is to argue that moral luck, our individual life circumstances, affects one's ability to pursue virtue. She argues that economic status functions as moral luck and impedes the ability of both the wealthy and the impoverished to pursue virtues such as prudence, justice, and temperance. The book presents social science evidence that inequality reduces empathy for others' suffering, and increases violence, fear, and the desire to punish others. For the wealthy, inequality creates "hyperagency" - abundant freedom, power, and choice beyond that enjoyed by other members of society. For the poor, scarcity of time, money, and other important goods can also impair their ability to pursue virtue. Having established the theological harm caused by inequality, Ward then makes the argument that both individual Christians and Christian communities have obligations to address the impact of inequality. As individuals, Christians should pursue what Ward calls encounter, conversion, and contentment. Encounter means genuinely reaching out to the less fortunate and spending enough time to get to know individuals as human beings. For Ward, conversion means informing oneself about the realities of poverty and inequality. Contentment means being satisfied with one's position and not striving for more material wealth. Christian communities, in Ward's view, have obligations to pursue political action, tithing, and aid, and to foster encounters in parishes and educational settings"--

Author : D. Glenn Butner
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781506479415

Get Book

Work Out Your Salvation by D. Glenn Butner Pdf

Work Out Your Salvation demonstrates how participation in markets forms our moral character, perceptions, actions, and ideas. It argues that such formation varies based on market designs and our interactions within them. Undermining simplistic ideas about capitalism, Butler lays bare which features of markets make us better and which make us worse.

Author : Henry Walter Spaulding III
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725287228

Get Book

Iconoclastic Sex by Henry Walter Spaulding III Pdf

Christian sexual ethics operates from a place of privilege when it does not consider those impacted by its moral prescriptions. A large majority of publications on Christian sexual ethics consider choices and images abstracted from lived conditions of the people called to make these decisions. As such, it leaves out many for whom sex is neither welcome nor a choice. As such, these same texts present images of sexual subjects that marginalize those that do not fit. As the book presents, sexuality, both Christian and otherwise, prioritizes a language of purity that strangles the life of those imaged impure. The present book remedies this emphasis through the language of iconoclasm that blasphemes these images and opens theological reflection beyond the boundary of image-based approaches. Utilizing a qualitative study of survivors of trafficking and those who grew up under evangelical purity teachings, Spaulding narrates sexual ethics in light of their testimonies and the theological resources of iconoclasm to articulate a more just and loving sexuality. The new emphasis on sexual ethics not only resists the prescriptions that create the conditions of sex trafficking but the creation of new communities capable of solidarity and mutuality with those caught in the web of trafficking.

Author : Michael Slote
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015005515518

Get Book

Goods and Virtues by Michael Slote Pdf

Offers a critique of prevalent approaches to human good and virtue. Slote shows that typical philosophical accounts of the virtues and human goods oversimplify the subject and that a more exact approach is needed.

Author : Daniel Statman
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791415392

Get Book

Moral Luck by Daniel Statman Pdf

Luck plays a part in determining our judgments and in causing us to question our notions of morality. Should a successful murderer be punished more severely than an unsuccessful one? Should a person be praised for his fine moral character which was a consequence of his good luck in being born into a certain kind of family, in particular historical circumstances? These questions and other ideas are discussed in this book by leading philosophers including: Bernard Williams, Thomas Nagel, Martha C. Nussbaum, Don Levi, Judith Andre, Henning Jensen, Nicholas Rescher, Norvin Richards, Steven Sverdlik, Judith Jarvis Thomson, Michael J. Zimmerman, and Margaret U. Walker. The reader is stimulated to reflect on his or her basic notions of morality, especially those of responsibility, agency, and justification.

Author : William C. Mattison III
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781647123291

Get Book

Growing in Virtue by William C. Mattison III Pdf

A compelling analysis tying the work of Aquinas to contemporary literature on virtue Despite heightened attention to virtue, contemporary philosophical and theological literature has failed to offer detailed analysis of how people attain and grow in the good habits we know as the virtues. Though popular literature provides instruction on attaining and growing in virtue, it lacks careful scholarly analysis of what exactly these good habits are in which we grow. Growing in Virtue is the only comprehensive account of growth in virtue in the thought of Thomas Aquinas. Mattison offers a robust account of habits, including what habits are, why they are needed, and what they supply once possessed. He draws on Aquinas to carefully delineate the commonalities and differences between natural (acquired) virtues and graced (infused) virtues. Along the way, Mattison discusses the distinction between disposition and habit; the role of “custom” in virtue formation; the nature of virtuous passions; the distinct contribution of the gifts of the Holy Spirit to graced life; explanations for persistent activity after the loss of virtue; and the possibility of coexistence of the infused and acquired virtues in the same person. For readers interested in virtue and morality from a philosophical perspective and scholars of theological ethics and moral theology in particular, Mattison offers compelling arguments from the work of Aquinas explicitly connected to contemporary scholarship in philosophical virtue ethics.

Author : Daniel Halliday
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192525000

Get Book

Inheritance of Wealth by Daniel Halliday Pdf

Daniel Halliday examines the moral grounding of the right to bequeath or transfer wealth. He engages with contemporary concerns about wealth inequality, class hierarchy, and taxation, while also drawing on the history of the egalitarian, utilitarian, and liberal traditions in political philosophy. He presents an egalitarian case for restricting inherited wealth, arguing that unrestricted inheritance is unjust to the extent that it enables and enhances the intergenerational replication of inequality. Here, inequality is understood in a group-based sense: the unjust effects of inheritance are principally in its tendency to concentrate certain opportunities into certain groups. This results in what Halliday describes as 'economic segregation'. He defends a specific proposal about how to tax inherited wealth: roughly, inheritance should be taxed more heavily when it comes from old money. He rebuts some sceptical arguments against inheritance taxes, and makes suggestions about how tax schemes should be designed.

Author : Robert J. Hartman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351866880

Get Book

In Defense of Moral Luck by Robert J. Hartman Pdf

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introducing the Problem of Moral Luck -- 2 The Concept of Moral Luck -- 3 Against the Skeptical Denial of Moral Luck -- 4 Against the Non-skeptical Denial of Moral Luck -- 5 In Defense of Moral Luck -- 6 Error Theory for the Luck-Free Intuition -- Index

Author : Adam Smith (économiste)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1812
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BCUL:1092833964

Get Book

The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith (économiste) Pdf

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 153978438X

Get Book

Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle Pdf

The Ethics of Aristotle is one half of a single treatise of which his Politics is the other half. Both deal with one and the same subject. This subject is what Aristotle calls in one place the "philosophy of human affairs;" but more frequently Political or Social Science. In the two works taken together we have their author's whole theory of human conduct or practical activity, that is, of all human activity which is not directed merely to knowledge or truth. The Nicomachean Ethics is the name normally given to Aristotle's best-known work on ethics. The work, which plays a pre-eminent role in defining Aristotelian ethics, consists of ten books, originally separate scrolls, and is understood to be based on notes from his lectures at the Lyceum. The title is often assumed to refer to his son Nicomachus, to whom the work was dedicated or who may have edited it (although his young age makes this less likely). Alternatively, the work may have been dedicated to his father, who was also called Nicomachus. The theme of the work is a Socratic question previously explored in the works of Plato, Aristotle's friend and teacher, of how men should best live. In his Metaphysics, Aristotle described how Socrates, the friend and teacher of Plato, had turned philosophy to human questions, whereas Pre-Socratic philosophy had only been theoretical. Ethics, as now separated out for discussion by Aristotle, is practical rather than theoretical, in the original Aristotelian senses of these terms. In other words, it is not only a contemplation about good living, because it also aims to create good living. It is therefore connected to Aristotle's other practical work, the Politics, which similarly aims at people becoming good. Ethics is about how individuals should best live, while the study of politics is from the perspective of a law-giver, looking at the good of a whole community.

Author : Adam Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1420959751

Get Book

The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith Pdf

Written in 1759 by Scottish philosopher and political economist Adam Smith, "The Theory of Moral Sentiments" provides much of the foundation for the ideas in his later works, most notably in "The Wealth of Nations." Through this initial text, Smith expresses his general system of morals, exploring the propriety of action, reward and punishment, sense of duty, and the effect of numerous factors on moral sentiment. In so doing, Smith devised innovative theories on virtues, conscience, and moral judgment that are still relevant and accessible today. Though somewhat surprising to find a philosopher of Smith's abilities discussing aspects such as luck and sympathy and how they affect self-image or relationships, "The Theory of Moral Sentiments" never loses its critical excellence in its good-natured understanding of the human exploration for the meaning of being good. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.

Author : Claudia Card
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781439903605

Get Book

The Unnatural Lottery by Claudia Card Pdf

A philosophical defense of the concept of moral luck as mediated by gender, race, social class, and sexual passions and an exploration of its implications for responsibility.

Author : Anthony Kenny
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000087713

Get Book

Aristotle on the Perfect Life by Anthony Kenny Pdf

Aristotle's teaching on the subject of happiness has been a topic of intense philosophical debate in recent years; it is of vital importance to the question of the relevance of his ethics in the present day. Aristotle's admirers struggle to read a comprehensive account of the supreme happiness into the Nicomachean Ethics; Kenny argues that those who are prepared to take the neglected Eudemian Ethics seriously preserve their admiration intact without doing violence to any of the relevant texts of the Nicomachean Ethics. Kenny has refined his position on the relation between the two works, offering a fresh examination and interpretation of the Eudemian Ethics on the basis of the 1991 Oxford Classical Text. He combines scholarly discussion of the Greek texts with reflection of the topics covered by Aristotle, taking account of post-Aristotelian treatments of themes such as moral vocation and moral luck.

Author : Eugene Garver
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781459606104

Get Book

Confronting Aristotle's Ethics by Eugene Garver Pdf

What is the good life? Posing this question today would likely elicit very different answers. Some might say that the good life means doing good - improving one's community and the lives of others. Others might respond that it means doing well - cultivating one's own abilities in a meaningful way. But for Aristotle these two distinct ideas - doi...

Author : Julia Driver
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2001-04-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139430029

Get Book

Uneasy Virtue by Julia Driver Pdf

The predominant view of moral virtue can be traced back to Aristotle. He believed that moral virtue must involve intellectual excellence. To have moral virtue one must have practical wisdom - the ability to deliberate well and to see what is morally relevant in a given context. Julia Driver challenges this classical theory of virtue, arguing that it fails to take into account virtues which do seem to involve ignorance or epistemic defect. Some 'virtues of ignorance' are counterexamples to accounts of virtue which hold that moral virtue must involve practical wisdom. Modesty, for example, is generally considered to be a virtue even though the modest person may be making an inaccurate assessment of his or her accomplishments. Driver argues that we should abandon the highly intellectualist view of virtue and instead adopt a consequentialist perspective which holds that virtue is simply a character trait which systematically produces good consequences.