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Critique Of The Empiricist Explanation Of Morality

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Author : C. W. Maris
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2013-11-22

Critique Of The Empiricist Explanation Of Morality written by C. W. Maris and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-22 with Philosophy categories.

a. 'Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and the more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within. ' Thus Kant formulates his attitude to morality (Critique of Practical Reason, p. 260). He draws a sharp distinction between these two objects of admiration. The starry sky, he writes, represents my relationship to the natural, empirical world. Moral law, on the other hand, is of a completely different order. It ' . . . begins from my invisible self, my personality, and exhibits me in a world which has true infinity, but which is traceable only by the understanding and with which I discern that I am not in a merely contingent but in a universal and necessary connection (. . . ). ' (p. 260). So Kant sees morality as a separate metaphysical order opposed to the world of empirical phenomena. Human beings belong to both worlds. According to Kant, the personality derives nothing of value from its relationship with the empirical world. His part in the sensuous world of nature places man on a level with any animal which before long must give back to the rest of nature the substances of which it is made.

Empiricism And Ethics

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Author : D. H. Monro
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2009-06-11

Empiricism And Ethics written by D. H. Monro and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-11 with Philosophy categories.

Professor Monro presents an original view of ethics based on empiricism, which leads him to a subjectivist position about moral values. He starts by examining the central problem in moral philosophy: are moral statements objectively true, or are they expressions of preference? The first view conflicts with the empiricist beliefs current in modern thought; the opposing naturalistic theory seems to lead to moral scepticism. After discussing both views, the author presents a detailed defence of the subjectivist position. In the course of his argument he gives a detailed analysis and criticism of the 'universalisability thesis', the theory that moral aspirations differ from others in being applicable to all men, and that it is this that makes them moral. He then offers an alternative account of the nature of moral attitudes. The author illustrates his explanations with straightforward analogies and examples. His clear exposition of the fundamental concepts arising in his argument makes this a book for students as well as for professional moral philosophers.

Getting What You Want

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Author : Robert Brecher
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 1997

Getting What You Want written by Robert Brecher and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Philosophy categories.

Getting What You Want? offers a critique of liberal morality and an analysis of its understanding of the individual as a 'wanting thing'.

Getting What You Want

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Author : Bob Brecher
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-10-12

Getting What You Want written by Bob Brecher and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-12 with Philosophy categories.

Getting What You Want? is the first book which calls for the collapse of liberal morality. Bob Brecher claims that it is wrong to think that morality is simply rooted in what people want. He explains that in our consumerist society, we make the assumption that getting 'what people want' is our natural goal, and that this 'natural goal' is a necessarily good one. We see that whether it is a matter of pornography or getting married - if people want it, then that's that. But is this really a good thing? Getting What You Want? offers a critique of liberal morality and an analysis of its understanding of the individual as a 'wanting thing'. Brecher boldly argues that the Anglo-American liberalism cannot give an adequate account of moral reasoning and action, nor any justification of moral principles or demands. Ultimately, Brecher shows us that the whole idea of liberal morality is not only incoherent but unattainable.

Critique Of Pure Reason

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Author : Immanuel Kant
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1881

Critique Of Pure Reason written by Immanuel Kant 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 categories.

Metaphysicians have for centuries attempted to clarify the nature of the world and how rational human beings construct their ideas of it. Materialists believed that the world (including its human component) consisted of objective matter, an irreducible substance to which qualities and characteristics could be attributed. Mindthoughts, ideas, and perceptionswas viewed as a more sophisticated material substance. Idealists, on the other hand, argued that the world acquired its reality from mind, which breathed metaphysical life into substances that had no independent existence of their own. These two camps seemed deadlocked until Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason endeavored to show that the most accurate theory of reality would be one that combined relevant aspects of each position, yet transcended both to arrive at a more fundamental metaphysical theory. Kant's synthesis sought to disclose how human reason goes about constructing its experience of the world, thus intertwining objective simuli with rational processes that arrive at an orderly view of nature.

Kant S Critique Of Practical Reason And Other Works On The Theory Of Ethics

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Author : Immanuel Kant
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898

Kant S Critique Of Practical Reason And Other Works On The Theory Of Ethics written by Immanuel Kant and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with Ethics categories.

Moral Character

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Author : Christian B. Miller
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2013-05-09

Moral Character written by Christian B. Miller 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 2013-05-09 with Philosophy categories.

Most of us are not virtuous people; but neither are we vicious. Instead, our characters are decidedly mixed, and much more complex than we might have thought. Christian Miller presents a new account of moral character based on Mixed Character Traits. He explores how most of us are less than virtuous people but also morally better than the vicious.