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Nature And Norm
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Author : Randi Rashkover
language : en
Publisher: Academic Studies PRess
Release Date : 2021-02-02
Nature And Norm written by Randi Rashkover and has been published by Academic Studies PRess this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-02 with Religion categories.
Nature and Norm: Judaism, Christianity and the Theopolitical Problem is a book about the encounter between Jewish and Christian thought and the fact-value divide that invites the unsettling recognition of the dramatic acosmism that shadows and undermines a considerable number of modern and contemporary Jewish and Christian thought systems. By exposing the forced option presented to Jewish and Christian thinkers by the continued appropriation of the fact-value divide, Nature and Norm motivates Jewish and Christian thinkers to perform an immanent critique of the failure of their thought systems to advance rational theopolitical claims and exercise the authority and freedom to assert their claims as reasonable hypotheses that hold the potential for enacting effective change in our current historical moment.
From Nature To Norm
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Author : John Post
language : en
Publisher: Booksurge Publishing
Release Date : 2008-10
From Nature To Norm written by John Post and has been published by Booksurge Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10 with Philosophy categories.
A meticulously scripted and thoughtfully considered monograph about the abyss between morality and biology, From Nature to Norm: An Essay in the Metaphysics of Morals proves as inventive as it is original. It combines the highest degree of originality with careful attention to potential objections, all in accord with Stravinsky's rule: To enjoy to the full the conquests of daring, we must demand that it operate in a pitiless light. Author and philosopher John F. Post explains how what seems an impossibility often proves to be a failure of the imagination. With wit and candor, he urges his readers to recall Stravinsky's rule and to ponder the relationships between the moral and biological dimensions of humankind. His is a dialogue to forge a path between the moral and the biological by way of forming a synthesis of these two crucial elements of human being.
The Crossroads Of Norm And Nature
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Author : May Sim
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 1995
The Crossroads Of Norm And Nature written by May Sim and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Philosophy categories.
A discussion of the intersections between Aristotle's works: Ethics and Metaphysics. It debates the ways in which - and even the extent to which - the two texts illuminate one another, examine Aristotle's methods and intellectualism and analyse issues of matter, form, potency and art.
Norms Of Nature
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Author : Paul Sheldon Davies
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2003-01-24
Norms Of Nature written by Paul Sheldon Davies and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01-24 with Science categories.
The components of living systems strike us as functional-as for the sake of certain ends—and as endowed with specific norms of performance. The mammalian eye, for example, has the function of perceiving and processing light, and possession of this property tempts us to claim that token eyes are supposed to perceive and process light. That is, we tend to evaluate the performance of token eyes against the norm described in the attributed functional property. Hence the norms of nature. What, then, are the norms of nature? Whence do they arise? Out of what natural properties or relations are they constituted? In Norms of Nature, Paul Sheldon Davies argues against the prevailing view that natural norms are constituted out of some form of historical success—usually success in natural selection. He defends the view that functions are nothing more than effects that contribute to the exercise of some more general systemic capacity. Natural functions exist insofar as the components of natural systems contribute to the exercise of systemic capacities. This is so irrespective of the system's history. Even if the mammalian eye had never been selected for, it would have the function of perceiving and processing light, because those are the effects that contribute to the exercise of the visual system. The systemic approach to conceptualizing natural norms, claims Davies, is superior to the historical approach in several important ways. Especially significant is that it helps us understand how the attribution of functions within the life sciences coheres with the methods and ontology of the natural sciences generally.
The Norms Of Nature
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Author : Malcolm Schofield
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2007-08-16
The Norms Of Nature written by Malcolm Schofield 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 2007-08-16 with Philosophy categories.
Can moral philosophy alter our moral beliefs or our emotions? Does moral scepticism mean making up our own values, or does it leave us without moral commitments at all? Is it possible to find a basis for ethics in human nature? These are some of the main questions explored in this volume, which is devoted to the ethics of the Hellenistic schools of philosophy. Some of the leading scholars in the field have here taken a look at the bases of the Stoics' and Epicureans' thinking about what the Greeks took to be the central questions of philosophy. Their essays, which originated in a conference held at Bad Homburg in 1983, the third in a series of conferences on Hellenistic philosophy, propose important interpretations of the texts, and pose some fascinating problems about the different roles of argument and reason in ancient and modern moral philosophy. This book will be of interest to moral philosophers and to scholars of Greek philosophy too.
Nature Norm And Psyche
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Author : Michael J. Loux
language : en
Publisher: Scuola Normale Superiore
Release Date : 2004
Nature Norm And Psyche written by Michael J. Loux and has been published by Scuola Normale Superiore this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Philosophy categories.
Nature And Normativity
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Author : Mark Okrent
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-10-24
Nature And Normativity written by Mark Okrent and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-24 with Philosophy categories.
Nature and Normativity argues that the problem of the place of norms in nature has been essentially misunderstood when it has been articulated in terms of the relation of human language and thought, on the one hand, and the world described by physics on the other. Rather, if we concentrate on the facts that speaking and thinking are activities of organic agents, then the problem of the place of the normative in nature becomes refocused on three related questions. First, is there a sense in which biological processes and the behavior of organisms can be legitimately subject to normative evaluation? Second, is there some sense in which, in addition to having ordinary causal explanations, organic phenomena can also legitimately be seen to happen because they should happen in that way, in some naturalistically comprehensible sense of ‘should’, or that organic phenomena happen in order to achieve some result, because that result should occur? And third, is it possible to naturalistically understand how human thought and language can be legitimately seen as the normatively evaluable behavior of a particular species of organism, behavior that occurs in order to satisfy some class of norms? This book develops, articulates, and defends positive answers to each of these questions.
Human Nature
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Author : Francis Etheredge
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-05-30
Human Nature written by Francis Etheredge and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-30 with categories.
There is a 'difference, both anthropological and moral, between contraception and recourse to the rhythm of the cycle: it is a difference which is much wider and deeper than is usually thought, one which involves in the final analysis two irreconcilable concepts of the human person and human sexuality' (St. John Paul II, Familiaris Consortio, 32).Human Nature: Moral Norm wades through a cultural mixture of challenging ideas which are either turning to sludge or starting to make sense, as if coming into clear water, enabling the whole book to find its central focus: Is it true that the human being is so well woven that the precept, "be open to life", is inherent in the very psychosomatic language of a spousal love? In other words, although at times it is almost impossible to summarize or simplify the question under investigation, it nevertheless emerges that it is truly necessary "to be open to life" even when it is deliberately intended to avoid the conception of a child; and, at the same time, that this is a discovery of the content of the human inclinations, psychological structure and spiritual reality of the "one flesh" of marriage. Thus, in a word, the moral norm which is entailed in the reciprocal gift of self in marriage is neither foreign to "being-in-relationship" nor an imposition upon it; rather, "being open to life" is as natural to spousal love as the breath is to breathing. Indeed, the moral norm of being open to life is as integral to human nature as heat is to a flame - as the flame of life and love is to the divine spark which ignites it.There are enlivening contributions from Dr. Mary Anne Urlakis, Dr. Mary Shivanandan; Dr. Hanna Klaus ; Dr. John Purk; and Dr. Thomas Williams, Suzanne Scheller and Dr. Christine M. W. Ward
Knowledge And The Norm Of Assertion
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Author : John Turri
language : en
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Release Date : 2016-02-26
Knowledge And The Norm Of Assertion written by John Turri and has been published by Open Book Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-26 with Philosophy categories.
Language is a human universal reflecting our deeply social nature. Among its essential functions, language enables us to quickly and efficiently share information. We tell each other that many things are true—that is, we routinely make assertions. Information shared this way plays a critical role in the decisions and plans we make. In Knowledge and the Norm of Assertion, a distinguished philosopher and cognitive scientist investigates the rules or norms that structure our social practice of assertion. Combining evidence from philosophy, psychology, and biology, John Turri shows that knowledge is the central norm of assertion and explains why knowledge plays this role. Concise, comprehensive, non-technical, and thoroughly accessible, this volume quickly brings readers to the cutting edge of a major research program at the intersection of philosophy and science. It presupposes no philosophical or scientific training. It will be of interest to philosophers and scientists, is suitable for use in graduate and undergraduate courses, and will appeal to general readers interested in human nature, social cognition, and communication.
Teleology And The Norms Of Nature
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Author : William J. FitzPatrick
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-09-25
Teleology And The Norms Of Nature written by William J. FitzPatrick and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-25 with Philosophy categories.
This work is an examination of teleological attributions i.e. ascriptions of proper functions and natural ends) to the features and behavior of living things with a view to understanding their application to human life.