Mere Humanity
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Mere Humanity
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Author : Donald T. Williams
language : en
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Release Date : 2006
Mere Humanity written by Donald T. Williams and has been published by B&H Publishing Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Literary Criticism categories.
Williams delves into the writings of G. K. Chesterton, C. S. Lewis, and J. R. R. Tolkien for answers about the purpose of man and his life on earth.
Humanity S End
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Author : Nicholas Agar
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2013-08-16
Humanity S End written by Nicholas Agar and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-16 with Philosophy categories.
An argument that achieving millennial life spans or monumental intellects will destroy values that give meaning to human lives. Proposals to make us smarter than the greatest geniuses or to add thousands of years to our life spans seem fit only for the spam folder or trash can. And yet this is what contemporary advocates of radical enhancement offer in all seriousness. They present a variety of technologies and therapies that will expand our capacities far beyond what is currently possible for human beings. In Humanity's End, Nicholas Agar argues against radical enhancement, describing its destructive consequences. Agar examines the proposals of four prominent radical enhancers: Ray Kurzweil, who argues that technology will enable our escape from human biology; Aubrey de Grey, who calls for anti-aging therapies that will achieve “longevity escape velocity”; Nick Bostrom, who defends the morality and rationality of enhancement; and James Hughes, who envisions a harmonious democracy of the enhanced and the unenhanced. Agar argues that the outcomes of radical enhancement could be darker than the rosy futures described by these thinkers. The most dramatic means of enhancing our cognitive powers could in fact kill us; the radical extension of our life span could eliminate experiences of great value from our lives; and a situation in which some humans are radically enhanced and others are not could lead to tyranny of posthumans over humans.
Rethinking The Value Of Humanity
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Author : Sarah Buss
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2023-01-24
Rethinking The Value Of Humanity written by Sarah Buss 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 2023-01-24 with Philosophy categories.
To treat some human beings as less worthy of concern and respect than others is to lose sight of their humanity. But what does this moral blindness amount to? What are we missing when we fail to appreciate the value of humanity? The essays in this volume offer a wide range of competing, yet overlapping, answers to these questions. Some essays examine influential views in the history of Western philosophy. In others, philosophers currently working in ethics develop and defend their own views. Some essays appeal to distinctively human capacities. Others argue that our obligations to one another are ultimately grounded in self-interest, or certain shared interests, or our natural sociability. The philosophers featured here disagree about whether the value of human beings depends on the value of anything else. They disagree about how reason and rationality relate to this value, and even about whether we can reason our way to discovering it. This rich selection of proposals encourages us to rethink some of our own deepest assumptions about the moral significance of being human.
Ethics And Humanity
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Author : N. Ann Davis
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2010-02-10
Ethics And Humanity written by N. Ann Davis 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 2010-02-10 with Philosophy categories.
This work pays tribute to Jonathan Glover, a pioneering figure whose thought and personal influence have had a significant impact on applied philosophy. The papers collected here address topics to which Glover has contributed.
Revisiting Kant S Universal Law And Humanity Formulas
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Author : Sven Nyholm
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2015-07-24
Revisiting Kant S Universal Law And Humanity Formulas written by Sven Nyholm and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-24 with Philosophy categories.
This book offers new readings of Kant’s “universal law” and “humanity” formulations of the categorical imperative. It shows how, on these readings, the formulas do indeed turn out being alternative statements of the same basic moral law, and in the process responds to many of the standard objections raised against Kant’s theory. Its first chapter briefly explores the ways in which Kant draws on his philosophical predecessors such as Plato (and especially Plato’s Republic) and Jean-Jacque Rousseau. The second chapter offers a new reading of the relation between the universal law and humanity formulas by relating both of these to a third formula of Kant’s, viz. the “law of nature” formula, and also to Kant’s ideas about laws in general and human nature in particular. The third chapter considers and rejects some influential recent attempts to understand Kant’s argument for the humanity formula, and offers an alternative reconstruction instead. Chapter four considers what it is to flourish as a human being in line with Kant’s basic formulas of morality, and argues that the standard readings of the humanity formula cannot properly account for its relation to Kant’s views about the highest human good.
New Themes For The Protestant Clergy Creeds Without Charity Theology Without Humanity And Protestantism Without Christianity By S A Colwell With Notes By The Editor On The Literature Of Charity Population Pauperism Political Economy And Protestantism
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Author : Stephen A. COLWELL
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1851
New Themes For The Protestant Clergy Creeds Without Charity Theology Without Humanity And Protestantism Without Christianity By S A Colwell With Notes By The Editor On The Literature Of Charity Population Pauperism Political Economy And Protestantism written by Stephen A. COLWELL and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1851 with Charity categories.
Humanity Across International Law And Biolaw
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Author : Britta van Beers
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-02-13
Humanity Across International Law And Biolaw written by Britta van Beers 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 2014-02-13 with Law categories.
An examination of how the concept of humanity is mobilized to make legal arguments in different areas of law.
The Rev Samuel Noble On The Glorification Of The Lord S Humanity
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Author : Samuel Noble
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1856
The Rev Samuel Noble On The Glorification Of The Lord S Humanity written by Samuel Noble and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1856 with categories.
A Note On Mr Gladstone S The Peace To Come
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Author : Scotus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1878
A Note On Mr Gladstone S The Peace To Come written by Scotus and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1878 with Eastern question (Balkan) categories.
The Value Of Humanity In Kant S Moral Theory
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Author : Richard Dean
language : en
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Release Date : 2006-05-11
The Value Of Humanity In Kant S Moral Theory written by Richard Dean and has been published by Clarendon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-11 with Philosophy categories.
The humanity formulation of Kant's Categorical Imperative demands that we treat humanity as an end in itself. Because this principle resonates with currently influential ideals of human rights and dignity, contemporary readers often find it compelling, even if the rest of Kant's moral philosophy leaves them cold. Moreover, some prominent specialists in Kant's ethics recently have turned to the humanity formulation as the most theoretically central and promising principle of Kant's ethics. Nevertheless, despite the intuitive appeal and the increasingly recognized philosophical importance of the humanity formulation, it has received less attention than many other, less central, aspects of Kant's ethics. Richard Dean offers the most sustained and systematic examination of the humanity formulation to date. Dean argues that the 'rational nature' that must be treated as an end in itself is not a minimally rational nature, consisting of the power to set ends or the unrealized capacity to act morally, but instead is the more properly rational nature possessed by someone who gives priority to moral principles over any contrary impulses. This non-standard reading of the humanity formulation provides a firm theoretical foundation for deriving plausible approaches to particular moral issues - and, contrary to first impressions, does not impose moralistic demands to pass judgment on others' character. Dean's reading also enables progress on problems of interest to Kant scholars, such as reconstructing Kant's argument for accepting the humanity formulation as a basic moral principle, and allows for increased understanding of the relationship between Kant's ethics and supposedly Kantian ideas such as 'respect for autonomy'.