Ethics For Rational Animals
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Dependent Rational Animals
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Author : Alasdair C. MacIntyre
language : en
Publisher: Open Court Publishing
Release Date : 1999
Dependent Rational Animals written by Alasdair C. MacIntyre and has been published by Open Court Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Philosophy categories.
In Dependent Rational Animals, Alasdair MacIntyre compares humans to other intelligent animals, ultimately drawing remarkable conclusions about human social life and our treatment of those whom he argues we should no longer call "disabled." MacIntyre argues that human beings are independent, practical reasoners, but they are also dependent animals who must learn from each other in order to remain largely independent. To flourish, humans must acknowledge the importance of dependence and independence, both of which are developed in and through social relationships. This requires the development of a local community in which individuals discover their own "goods" through the discovery of a common Good.
Ethics For Rational Animals
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Author : DR ELENA. CAGNOLI FIECCONI
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2024-06-14
Ethics For Rational Animals written by DR ELENA. CAGNOLI FIECCONI 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 2024-06-14 with Philosophy categories.
Ethics for Rational Animals presents a new account of practical wisdom, virtue, and akrasia (acting against one's best judgement) through an original study of the moral psychology at the basis of Aristotle's ethics. It ranges over his works on ethics, psychology, and biology, and defends a novel view concerning Aristotle's intellectualism.
Ethics For Rational Animals
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Author : Elena Cagnoli Fiecconi
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2024-03-14
Ethics For Rational Animals written by Elena Cagnoli Fiecconi 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 2024-03-14 with Philosophy categories.
Ethics for Rational Animals brings to light a novel account of akrasia, practical wisdom, and character virtue through an original and comprehensive study of the moral psychology at the basis of Aristotle's ethics. It argues that practical wisdom is a persuasive rational excellence, that virtue is a listening excellence, and that the ignorance involved in akrasia is in fact a failure of persuasion. Aristotle's moral psychology emerges from this reconstruction as a qualified intellectualism. The view is intellectualistic because it describes practical wisdom as the sort of knowledge that can govern desire and action and akrasia as involving a form of ignorance. However, Aristotle's intellectualism is qualified because practical wisdom goes beyond grasping the truth about the human good, for it must also be able to convey the truth persuasively to non-rational cognition and desires. Through a study of Aristotle's works on ethics, psychology, and biology, Elena Cagnoli Fiecconi shows that there are unexplored ways in which rational and non-rational cognition and desire cooperate and influence one another. These include attention, the capacity of the rational part of the soul to manipulate the non-rational part of the soul, and the capacity to exercise phantasia for speculation, creativity, and research. She argues that, despite being integrated with non-rational cognition and desire, rational cognition of value struggles to control human behaviour and motivation. More specifically, she defends the key thesis that grasping the truth about the human good is not sufficient for humans to regulate action and desire. Therefore, practical wisdom does not merely grasp the truth about the human good, but it controls action and desire because it conveys the truth effectively to the non-rational part of the soul. Conversely, akrasia does not merely involve a lack of epistemic access to the truth about the human good, but a failure to persuade the non-rational part of the soul about it. This study of practical wisdom and akrasia also sheds light on character virtue, which emerges as a practical excellence whose task is to listen to reason.
Ethics For Rational Animals
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Author : Elena Cagnoli Fiecconi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Ethics For Rational Animals written by Elena Cagnoli Fiecconi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Cognitive psychology categories.
Animal Minds And Human Morals
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Author : Richard Sorabji
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2018-05-31
Animal Minds And Human Morals written by Richard Sorabji and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-31 with Philosophy categories.
"They don't have syntax, so we can eat them." According to Richard Sorabji, this conclusion attributed to the Stoic philosophers was based on Aristotle's argument that animals lack reason. In his fascinating, deeply learned book, Sorabji traces the roots of our thinking about animals back to Aristotelian and Stoic beliefs. Charting a recurrent theme in ancient philosophy of mind, he shows that today's controversies about animal rights represent only the most recent chapter in millennia-old debates. Sorabji surveys a vast range of Greek philosophical texts and considers how classical discussions of animals' capacities intersect with central questions, not only in ethics but in the definition of human rationality as well: the nature of concepts; how perceptions differ from beliefs; how memory, intention, and emotion relate to reason; and to what extent speech, skills, and inference can serve as proofs of reason. Focusing on the significance of ritual sacrifice and the eating of meat, he explores religious contexts of the treatment of animals in ancient Greece and in medieval Western Christendom. He also looks closely at the contemporary defenses of animal rights offered by Peter Singer, Tom Regan, and Mary Midgley. Animal Minds and Human Morals sheds new light on traditional arguments surrounding the status of animals while pointing beyond them to current moral dilemmas. It will be crucial reading for scholars and students in the fields of ancient philosophy, ethics, history of philosophy, classics, and medieval studies, and for everyone seriously concerned about our relationship with other species. A Townsend Lecture Book
Aristotle S Anthropology
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Author : Geert Keil
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-05-30
Aristotle S Anthropology written by Geert Keil 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 2019-05-30 with History categories.
The first collection of essays on Aristotle's philosophy of human nature, covering the metaphysical, biological and ethical works.
Animals Rights And Reason In Plutarch And Modern Ethics
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Author : Stephen T. Newmyer
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-04-15
Animals Rights And Reason In Plutarch And Modern Ethics written by Stephen T. Newmyer and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-15 with History categories.
This groundbreaking volume explores Plutarch's unique survival in the argument that animals are rational and sentient, and that we, as humans, must take notice of their interests. Exploring Plutarch's three animal-related treatises, as well as passages from his ethical treatises, Stephen Newmyer examines arguments that, strikingly, foreshadow those found in the works of such prominent animal rights philosophers as Peter Singer and Tom Regan. Unique in viewing Plutarch’s opinions not only in the context of ancient philosophical and ethical through, but also in its place in the history of animal rights speculation, Animals Rights and Reasons points out how remarkably Plutarch differs from such anti-animal thinkers as the Stoics. Classicists, philosophers, animal-welfare students and interested readers will all find this book an invaluable and informative addition to their reading.
The Animals Issue
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Author : Peter Carruthers
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1992-09-24
The Animals Issue written by Peter Carruthers 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 1992-09-24 with Nature categories.
Peter Carruthers explores a variety of moral theories, arguing that animals lack direct moral significance.
The Ethics Of Killing Animals
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Author : Tatjana Višak
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2016
The Ethics Of Killing Animals written by Tatjana Višak and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Nature categories.
This title examines the fields of value theory, normative and applied ethics on the issue of killing animals. It addresses a number of questions: Can painless killing harm or benefit an animal and, if so, why and under what conditions? Can coming into existence harm or benefit an animal? Is killing animals morally acceptable? Should animals have the legal right to life? In addressing these questions, animal rights and animal welfare positions are articulated and debated by some of the foremost thinkers on these issues, with a distinction made between rights-based and utilitarian approaches.
Animals And Their Moral Standing
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Author : Stephen R L Clark
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2006-06-07
Animals And Their Moral Standing written by Stephen R L Clark and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-06-07 with Philosophy categories.
Twenty years ago, people thought only cranks or sentimentalists could be seriously concerned about the treatment of non-human animals. However, since then philosophers, scientists and welfarists have raised public awareness of the issue; and they have begun to lay the foundations for an enormous change in human practice. This book is a record of the development of 'animal rights' through the eyes of one highly-respected and well-known thinker. This book brings together for the first time Stephen R.L. Clark's major essays in one volume. Written with characteristic clarity and persuasion, Animals and Their Moral Standing will be essential reading for both philosophers and scientists, as well as the general reader concerned by the debates over animal rights and treatment.