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Calculation And Morality
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Author : Caroline Oudin-Bastide
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-01-10
Calculation And Morality written by Caroline Oudin-Bastide and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-10 with Business & Economics categories.
Debates about whether to maintain or abolish slavery revolved around two key values: the morality of enslaving other human beings and the economic benefits and costs of slavery as compared to free labor. Various and conflicting arguments were presented by abolitionists, colonists, and administrators in slave-holding societies, all of whom used calculations about the relative cost and productivity of slavery to defend their own point of view in an impassioned debate. In Calculation and Morality, Caroline Oudin-Bastide and Philippe Steiner consider how economic calculations, estimations, and arguments informed the long debate over French slavery between 1771 and 1848. They show how calculation was introduced into moral debate and became a critical social object in regard both to its consistency and its manifest effects. To do so they trace a process in which phenomena were classified into groups, becoming a category, and then how metrics and calculations were used to analyze the possible effects of emancipating slaves in French colonies. Abolitionists sought to demonstrate that it was in the interest of slaveowners and/or the entire nation to employ free labour in the colonies, and to show the irrationality of the colonial and metropolitan defenders of servitude; their aim was to enlighten various parties as to their real interest, and how that real interest coincided with justice. In turn, colonists accused those opposed to slavery of being blinded by their own philanthropic principles and insisted on the rationality of the slave system as the only means of meeting the interests of everyone, including slaves, at least in the short and medium term. Oudin-Bastide and Steiner closely examine the positions and reasoning of such influential French thinkers as Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Antoine Nicolas de Condorcet, Simonde de Sismondi, Jean Baptiste Say, and Alexis de Tocqueville. In doing so they shed light on the interaction of moral precepts and econonomic calculations in a trenchant study in the history of ideas.
The Development Of Ethics Volume 3
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Author : Terence Irwin
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2009-09-10
The Development Of Ethics Volume 3 written by Terence Irwin and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-10 with Philosophy categories.
This book is a selective historical and critical study of moral philosophy in the Socratic tradition, with special attention to Aristotelian naturalism. It discusses the main topics of moral philosophy as they have developed historically, including: the human good, human nature, justice, friendship, and morality; the methods of moral inquiry; the virtues and their connexions; will, freedom, and responsibility; reason and emotion; relativism, subjectivism, and realism; the theological aspect of morality. The first volume discusses ancient and mediaeval moral philosophy. The second volume examines early modern moral philosophy from the 16th to the 18th century. This third volume continues the story up to Rawls's Theory of Justice. A comparison between the Kantian and the Aristotelian outlook is one central theme of the third volume. The chapters on Kant compare Kant both with his rationalist and empiricist predecessors and with the Aristotelian naturalist tradition. Reactions to Kant are traced through Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Kierkegaard. Utilitarian and idealist approaches to Kantian and Aristotelian views are traced through Sidgwick, Bradley, and Green. Mill and Sidgwick provide a link between 18th-century rationalism and sentimentalism and the 20th-century debates in the metaphysics and epistemology of morality. These debates are explored in Moore, Ross, Stevenson, Hare, C.I. Lewis, Heidegger, and in some more recent meta-ethical discussion. This volume concludes with a discussion of Rawls, with special emphasis on a comparison of his position with utilitarianism, intuitionism, Kantianism, naturalism, and idealism. Since this book seeks to be not only descriptive and exegetical, but also philosophical, it discusses the comparative merits of different views, the difficulties that they raise, and how some of the difficulties might be resolved. It presents the leading moral philosophers of the past as participants in a rational discussion in which the contemporary reader can participate.
Ethics Morality And Human Nature
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Author : Hector Davidson
language : en
Publisher: Dedona Publishing
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Ethics Morality And Human Nature written by Hector Davidson and has been published by Dedona Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Philosophy categories.
This is a bundle of the following books: - Aesthetics - Analytic Philosophy - Critical Theory - Cynicism - Determinism - Humanism - Idealism - Liberalism - Moral Philosophy - Naturalism - Nihilism - Parmenides - Phenomenology - Structuralism - Utilitarianism
The Routledge Handbook Of Moral Epistemology
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Author : Aaron Zimmerman
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-11-02
The Routledge Handbook Of Moral Epistemology written by Aaron Zimmerman and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-02 with Philosophy categories.
The Routledge Handbook of Moral Epistemology brings together philosophers, cognitive scientists, developmental and evolutionary psychologists, animal ethologists, intellectual historians, and educators to provide the most comprehensive analysis of the prospects for moral knowledge ever assembled in print. The book’s thirty chapters feature leading experts describing the nature of moral thought, its evolution, childhood development, and neurological realization. Various forms of moral skepticism are addressed along with the historical development of ideals of moral knowledge and their role in law, education, legal policy, and other areas of social life. Highlights include: • Analyses of moral cognition and moral learning by leading cognitive scientists • Accounts of the normative practices of animals by expert animal ethologists • An overview of the evolution of cooperation by preeminent evolutionary psychologists • Sophisticated treatments of moral skepticism, relativism, moral uncertainty, and know-how by renowned philosophers • Scholarly accounts of the development of Western moral thinking by eminent intellectual historians • Careful analyses of the role played by conceptions of moral knowledge in political liberation movements, religious institutions, criminal law, secondary education, and professional codes of ethics articulated by cutting-edge social and moral philosophers.
Critical And Modern Movements
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Author : Hector Davidson
language : en
Publisher: Dedona Publishing
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Critical And Modern Movements written by Hector Davidson and has been published by Dedona Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Philosophy categories.
This book contains the following titles and topics: - Deconstructionism - Determinism - Feminist Philosophy - Humanism - Liberalism - Moral Philosophy - Naturalism - Nihilism - Phenomenology - Pragmatism - Structuralism - Utilitarianism
Calculating Ethics In The Fourteenth Century
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2024-06-24
Calculating Ethics In The Fourteenth Century written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-24 with History categories.
Calculating Ethics in the Fourteenth Century addresses a moment in the history of ethics, when discoveries in natural philosophy blurred the boundary between the possible and the impossible, and made the impossible a preferred territory in discussions on practical reason. The volume studies the onset and expansion of a new movement in constructing ethics, as the methods, arguments, and cases adopted from logic and natural philosophy came to be extensively applied at Oxford and swiftly disseminated among other Oxonians eventually making their way outside Oxford. It shows how the Oxford Calculators triggered a unique and durable transformation in ethics. Contributors are Pascale Bermon, Valeria Buffon, Michael W. Dunne, Marek Gensler, Simon Kemp, Edit A. Lukács, Monika Michałowska, and Andrea Nannini.
Hartley And James Mill
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Author : George Spencer Bower
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1881
Hartley And James Mill written by George Spencer Bower and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1881 with Philosophy, English categories.
Science And Morality
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
Science And Morality written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Communism and society categories.
The Teaching Of Morality In The Family And The School
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Author : Sophie Willock Bryant
language : en
Publisher: London : S. Sonnenschein ; New York : Macmillan Company
Release Date : 1897
The Teaching Of Morality In The Family And The School written by Sophie Willock Bryant and has been published by London : S. Sonnenschein ; New York : Macmillan Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1897 with Ethics categories.
The Influence Of Literature Upon Society
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Author : Madame de Staël (Anne-Louise-Germaine)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1835
The Influence Of Literature Upon Society written by Madame de Staël (Anne-Louise-Germaine) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1835 with Literature categories.