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Moral Failure
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Author : Lisa Tessman
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016
Moral Failure written by Lisa Tessman 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 2016 with Philosophy categories.
Moral Failure: On the Impossible Demands of Morality asks what happens when the sense that "I must" collides with the realization that "I can't." Bringing together philosophical and empirical work in moral psychology, Lisa Tessman here examines moral requirements that are non-negotiable and that contravene the principle that "ought implies can." In some cases, it is because two non-negotiable requirements conflict that one of them becomes impossible to satisfy, and yet remains binding. In other cases, performing a particular action may be non-negotiably required -- even if it is impossible -- because not performing the action is unthinkable. After offering both conceptual and empirical explanations of the experience of impossible moral requirements and the ensuing failures to fulfill them, Tessman considers what to make of such experience, and in particular, what role such experience has in the construction of value and of moral authority. According to the constructivist account that the book proposes, some moral requirements can be authoritative even when they are impossible to fulfill. Tessman points out a tendency to not acknowledge the difficulties that impossible moral requirements and unavoidable moral failures create in moral life, and traces this tendency through several different literatures, from scholarship on Holocaust testimony to discussions of ideal and nonideal theory, from theories of supererogation to debates about moral demandingness and to feminist care ethics.
Overcoming Moral Failure
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Author : Froese Gordon
language : en
Publisher: CrossBooks Publishing
Release Date : 2013-12
Overcoming Moral Failure written by Froese Gordon and has been published by CrossBooks Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12 with categories.
Have you ever felt entrapped or snared by some bad behavior? Although what you're doing feels good, deep in your heart you know it is wrong. Unable to escape the trap you've created for yourself, you feel as though there is no way out and no one to turn to for help. In Overcoming Moral Failure: Picking Up the Pieces, author Gordon Froese helps you understand how you arrived where you are and what you need to do to find relief and recovery from a life that is broken. For believers in the God of the Bible, this message resonates with the truth of the Scriptures, while nonbelievers may find that the God of the Bible has an astounding amount of insight into the behavior and misbehavior of human beings. Froese offers insights based not only the results of research and study, but also on his own real-life moral failure and recovery. This guide offers an open and frank discussion of moral failure and presents ways to recover from it. God can restore anyone who is willing to seek restoration God's way; it can be a reality when there is true repentance and a willingness to do whatever it takes.
Overcoming Moral Failure
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Author : Gordon S. Froese
language : en
Publisher: WestBow Press
Release Date : 2016-02-01
Overcoming Moral Failure written by Gordon S. Froese and has been published by WestBow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-01 with Self-Help categories.
Have you ever felt entrapped or snared by some bad behavior? Although what youre doing feels good, deep in your heart you know it is wrong. Unable to escape the trap youve created for yourself, you feel as though there is no way out and no one to turn to for help. In Overcoming Moral Failure: Picking Up the Pieces, author Gordon Froese helps you understand how you arrived where you are and what you need to do to find relief and recovery from a life that is broken. For believers in the God of the Bible, this message resonates with the truth of the Scriptures, while nonbelievers may find that the God of the Bible has an astounding amount of insight into the behavior and misbehavior of human beings. Froese offers insights based not only the results of research and study, but also on his own real-life moral failure and recovery. This guide offers an open and frank discussion of moral failure and presents ways to recover from it. God can restore anyone who is willing to seek restoration Gods way; it can be a reality when there is true repentance and a willingness to do whatever it takes.
Moral Failure
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Author : Lisa Tessman
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2014-11-03
Moral Failure written by Lisa Tessman 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 2014-11-03 with Philosophy categories.
Moral Failure: On the Impossible Demands of Morality asks what happens when the sense that "I must" collides with the realization that "I can't." Bringing together philosophical and empirical work in moral psychology, Lisa Tessman here examines moral requirements that are non-negotiable and that contravene the principle that "ought implies can." In some cases, it is because two non-negotiable requirements conflict that one of them becomes impossible to satisfy, and yet remains binding. In other cases, performing a particular action may be non-negotiably required -- even if it is impossible -- because not performing the action is unthinkable. After offering both conceptual and empirical explanations of the experience of impossible moral requirements and the ensuing failures to fulfill them, Tessman considers what to make of such experience, and in particular, what role such experience has in the construction of value and of moral authority. According to the constructivist account that the book proposes, some moral requirements can be authoritative even when they are impossible to fulfill. Tessman points out a tendency to not acknowledge the difficulties that impossible moral requirements and unavoidable moral failures create in moral life, and traces this tendency through several different literatures, from scholarship on Holocaust testimony to discussions of ideal and nonideal theory, from theories of supererogation to debates about moral demandingness and to feminist care ethics.
Broken Broke And Brought Back
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Author : Keith Gilliam
language : en
Publisher: R. R. Bowker
Release Date : 2020-03-11
Broken Broke And Brought Back written by Keith Gilliam and has been published by R. R. Bowker this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-11 with categories.
We are all just one decision away from losing everything - resulting in complete bankruptcy of emotions, relationships, even money and material possessions. One bad decision can ruin a reputation and rob your joy and peace. One decision can turn your life around and point it in a completely different direction all together. One decision could cost you everything you hold dear, including financial security, family and future. One decision. We all stand at the threshold of decisions every moment of every day that could derail our lives, if acted upon, could cause unparalleled heartache and damage even for the most innocent in our lives. It happened to me. It can happen to you. It can happen to anyone. For me, one decision became another decision because it was such a well-kept secret, at least I thought it was. Once a line is crossed, it seems impossible to go back - a new course is charted, a new blueprint is drawn. Sure, you may be able to dabble with sin a time or two and turn from it, but the allure of sin calls us back, again and again, until we are exposed by the light of God's grace, and then, the damage is done, it's too late. Or is it? God's grace finds us all as sinners with our only hope being God's sovereign work of sending His only Son, Jesus, to die for our sins. So, in reality, we are all at one time one decision away from committing our lives to Christ in complete devotion; and when we make that decision, His love abounds in our hearts, minds and souls. We see life from a new perspective with a new purpose than before. Then, we really do have a new course charted and a new blueprint begins to be drawn. So, how about you? Have you faced temptation and fallen? Do you find it difficult to resist the constant barrage of thoughts of lusts? More importantly, do you want to be remembered as "a man after God's own heart"? Then read on.
Death Penalty
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Author : JoAnn Bren Guernsey
language : en
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
Release Date : 2009-09-01
Death Penalty written by JoAnn Bren Guernsey and has been published by Twenty-First Century Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Discusses the history of execution, the process from sentencing to execution, moral issues involved in the death penalty, arguments for and against it, and the shrinking number of countries with it.
When Doing The Right Thing Is Impossible
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Author : Lisa Tessman
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017-06-01
When Doing The Right Thing Is Impossible written by Lisa Tessman 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 2017-06-01 with Philosophy categories.
Suppose that in an emergency evacuation of a hospital after a flood, not all of the patients can make it out alive. You are the doctor faced with the choice between abandoning these patients to die alone and in pain, or injecting them with a lethal dose of drugs, without consent, so that they die peacefully. Perhaps no one will be able to blame you whatever you decide, but, whichever action you choose, you will remain burdened by guilt. What happens, in cases like this, when, no matter what you do, you are destined for moral failure? What happens when there is no available means of doing the right thing? Human life is filled with such impossible moral decisions. These choices and case studies that demonstrate them form the focus of Lisa Tessman's arresting and provocative work. Many philosophers believe that there are simply no situations in which what you morally ought to do is something that you can't do, because they think that you can't be required to do something unless it's actually in your power to do it. Despite this, real life presents us daily with situations in which we feel that we have failed morally even when no right action would have been possible. Lisa Tessman boldly argues that sometimes we feel this way because we have encountered an 'impossible moral requirement.' Drawing on philosophy, empirical psychology, and evolutionary theory, When Doing the Right Thing Is Impossible explores how and why human beings have constructed moral requirements to be binding even when they are impossible to fulfill.
Moral Error Theory
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Author : Wouter Floris Kalf
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-05-30
Moral Error Theory written by Wouter Floris Kalf and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-30 with Philosophy categories.
This book provides a novel formulation and defence of moral error theory. It also provides a novel solution to the so-called now what question; viz., the question what we should do with our moral thought and talk after moral error theory. The novel formulation of moral error theory uses pragmatic presupposition rather than conceptual entailment to argue that moral judgments carry a non-negotiable commitment to categorical moral reasons. The new answer to the now what question is pragmatic presupposition substitutionism: we should substitute our current moral judgments, which pragmatically presuppose the existence of categorical moral reasons with ‘schmoral’ judgments that pragmatically presuppose the existence of a specific class of prudential reasons. These are prudential reasons that, when we act on them, contribute to the satisfaction of what the author calls ‘the fundamental desire’; namely, the desire to live in a world with mutually beneficial cooperation.
Moral Error Theory
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Author : Jonas Olson
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2014-01-23
Moral Error Theory written by Jonas Olson and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-23 with Philosophy categories.
Jonas Olson presents a critical survey of moral error theory, the view that there are no moral facts and so all moral claims are false. In Part I (History), he explores the historical context of the debate, and discusses the moral error theories of David Hume and of some more or less influential twentieth century philosophers, including Axel Hägerström, Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Richard Robinson. He argues that the early cases for moral error theory are suggestive but that they would have been stronger had they included something like J. L. Mackie's arguments that moral properties and facts are metaphysically queer. Part II (Critique) focuses on these arguments. Olson identifies four queerness arguments, concerning supervenience, knowledge, motivation, and irreducible normativity, and goes on to establish that while the first three are not compelling, the fourth has considerable force, especially when combined with debunking explanations of why we tend to believe that there are moral properties and facts when in fact there are none. One conclusion of Part II is that a plausible error theory takes the form of an error theory about irreducible normativity. In Part III (Defence), Olson considers challenges according to which that kind of error theory has problematic ramifications regarding hypothetical reasons, epistemic reasons, and deliberation. He ends his discussion with a consideration of the implications of moral error theory for ordinary moral thought and talk, and for normative theorizing.
Disorientation And Moral Life
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Author : Ami Harbin
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016-04-01
Disorientation And Moral Life written by Ami Harbin 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 2016-04-01 with Philosophy categories.
This book is a philosophical exploration of disorientation and its significance for action. Disorientations are human experiences of losing one's bearings, such that life is disrupted and it is not clear how to go on. In the face of life experiences like trauma, grief, illness, migration, education, queer identification, and consciousness raising, individuals can be deeply disoriented. These and other disorientations are not rare. Although disorientations can be common and powerful parts of individuals' lives, they remain uncharacterized by Western philosophers, and overlooked by ethicists. Disorientations can paralyze, overwhelm, embitter, and misdirect moral agents, and moral philosophy and motivational psychology have important insights to offer into why this is. More perplexing are the ways disorientations may prompt improved moral action. Ami Harbin draws on first person accounts, philosophical texts, and qualitative and quantitative research to show that in some cases of disorientation, individuals gain new forms of awareness of political complexity and social norms, and new habits of relating to others and an unpredictable moral landscape. She then argues for the moral and political promise of these gains. A major contention of the book is that disorientations have 'non-resolutionary effects': they can help us act without first helping us resolve what to do. In exploring these possibilities, Disorientation and Moral Life contributes to philosophy of emotions, moral philosophy, and political thought from a distinctly feminist perspective. It makes the case for seeing disorientations as having the power to motivate profound and long-term shifts in moral and political action. A feminist re-envisioning of moral psychology provides the framework for understanding how they do so.