The Moral Wager
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The Moral Wager
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Author : Malcolm Murray
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2007-05-05
The Moral Wager written by Malcolm Murray and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-05-05 with Philosophy categories.
In the following chapters, I offer an evolutionary account of morality and from that extrapolate a version of contractarianism I call consent theory. Game theory helps to highlight the evolution of morality as a resolution of interpersonal conflicts under strategic negotiation. It is this emphasis on strategic negotiation that underwrites the idea of consent. Consent theory differs from other contractarian models by abandoning reliance on rational self-interest in favour of evolutionary adaptation. From this, more emphasis will be placed on consent as natural convergence rather than consent as an idealization. My picture of contractarianism, then, ends up looking more like the relativist model offered by Harman, rather than the rational (or pseudo-rational) model offered by Gauthier, let alone the Kantian brands of Rawls or Scanlon. So at least some of my discussion will dwell on why it is no loss to abandon hope for the universal, categorical morality that rational models promise. In the introduction, I offer the betting analogy that underwrites the remaining picture. There are some bets where the expected utility is positive, though the odds of winning on this particular occasion are exceedingly low. In such cases, we cannot hope to give an argument that taking the bet is rational. The only thing we can say is that those predisposed to take this kind of bet on these kinds of occasions will do better than those with other dispositions, so long as such games occur often enough.
The Bet Anton P Chekhov S Wager On Human Nature
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Author : Anton P. Chekhov
language : en
Publisher: Namaskar Book
Release Date : 101-01-01
The Bet Anton P Chekhov S Wager On Human Nature written by Anton P. Chekhov and has been published by Namaskar Book this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 101-01-01 with categories.
Engage in a battle of wits and wills with Anton P. Chekhov's thought-provoking tale, "The Bet." Enter a world where morality and materialism collide, and the true cost of human ambition is put to the test. As Chekhov's gripping narrative unfolds, follow the high-stakes wager between a banker and a young lawyer—a bet that will test the limits of human endurance and the depths of human depravity. Delve into the moral quandaries and ethical dilemmas that arise as the bet unfolds.But amidst the moral ambiguity and existential uncertainty, a question arises: What if the true cost of ambition is not in the pursuit of wealth and power, but in the loss of one's humanity? Could Chekhov's tale of greed and temptation serve as a cautionary tale of the dangers of unchecked ambition? Immerse yourself in the intellectual duel and psychological drama that Chekhov expertly orchestrates. His sharp wit and keen insight into human nature will keep you guessing until the very end. Are you ready to place your own bet with "The Bet"?Join the banker and the lawyer as they engage in a battle of wills that will test the limits of their morality and the depths of their convictions. Let Chekhov's provocative narrative challenge your assumptions and provoke your thoughts on the nature of wealth, power, and the pursuit of happiness. Here's your chance to not just read, but to participate in a battle of wits and wills. This is more than a story; it's a philosophical inquiry into the nature of human ambition and the price we're willing to pay for it. Will you dare to place your own bet?Seize the opportunity to own a masterpiece of Russian literature. Purchase "The Bet" now, and let Chekhov's timeless tale of morality and materialism inspire and challenge you in equal measure.
Pascal S Pens Es
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Author : Blaise Pascal
language : en
Publisher: Namaskar Books
Release Date :
Pascal S Pens Es written by Blaise Pascal and has been published by Namaskar Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Literary Criticism categories.
Gambling On God
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Author : Jeff Jordan
language : en
Publisher: Rl Innactive Titles
Release Date : 1994
Gambling On God written by Jeff Jordan and has been published by Rl Innactive Titles this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Philosophy categories.
Gambling on God brings together a superb collection of new and classic essays that provide the first sustained analysis of Pascal's Wager and the idea of an infinite utility as well as the first in-depth look at moral objections to the Wager.
Taking Pascal S Wager
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Author : Michael Rota
language : en
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Release Date : 2016-04-21
Taking Pascal S Wager written by Michael Rota and has been published by InterVarsity Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-21 with Religion categories.
WORLD Magazine’s Best Books of 2016 Short List Christianity Today's 2017 Book of the Year Award of Merit - Apologetics/Evangelism Since we can't know with absolute certainty that God exists, each of us in a sense makes a bet. If we believe in God and are right, the benefits include eternal life. If we are wrong, the downside is limited. On the other hand, we might not believe in God. If we are right, then we will have lived in line with reality. If we are wrong, however, the consequences could be eternally disastrous. This was the challenge posed by the French philosopher Blaise Pascal over three hundred years ago. But Michael Rota contends that Pascal's argument is still compelling today. Since there is much to gain (for ourselves as well as for others) and relatively little to lose, the wise decision is to seek a relationship with God and live a Christian life. Rota considers Pascal's wager and the roles of uncertainty, evidence and faith in making a commitment to God. By engaging with themes such as decision theory, the fine-tuning of the universe, divine hiddenness, the problem of evil, the historicity of the resurrection and the nature of miracles, he probes the many dynamics at work in embracing the Christian faith. In addition, Rota takes a turn not found in many books of philosophy. He looks at the actual effects of such a commitment in three recent, vivid, gripping examples—Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Jean Vanier and Immaculée Ilibagiza. Like Pascal, Rota leaves us with a question: What wager will we make?
Pascal S Wager
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Author : Jeff Jordan
language : en
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Release Date : 2006-10-26
Pascal S Wager written by Jeff Jordan and has been published by Clarendon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10-26 with Philosophy categories.
What if there is no strong evidence that God exists? Is belief in God when faced with a lack of evidence illegitimate and improper? Evidentialism answers yes. According to Evidentialism, it is impermissible to believe any proposition lacking adequate evidence. And if any thesis enjoys the status of a dogma among philosophers, it is Evidentialism. Presenting a direct challenge to Evidentialism are pragmatic arguments for theism, which are designed to support belief in the absence of adequate evidence. Pascal's Wager is the most prominent theistic pragmatic argument, and issues in epistemology, the ethics of belief, and decision theory, as well as philosophical theology, all intersect at the Wager. Other prominent theistic pragmatic arguments include William James's celebrated essay, 'The Will to Believe'; a posthumously published and largely ignored pragmatic argument authored by J.S. Mill, supporting the propriety of hoping that quasi-theism is true; the eighteenth-century Scottish essayist James Beattie's argument that the consoling benefit of theistic belief is so great that theistic belief is permissible even when one thinks that the existence of God is less likely than not; and an argument championed by the nineteenth-century French philosopher Jules Lachelier, which based its case for theistic belief on the empirical benefits of believing as a theist, even if theism was very probably false. In Pascal's Wager: Pragmatic Arguments and Belief in God, Jeff Jordan explores various theistic pragmatic arguments, and the objections employed against them. Jordan presents a new version of the Wager, what he calls the 'Jamesian Wager', and argues that the Jamesian Wager survives the objections hurled against theistic pragmatic arguments and provides strong support for theistic belief. In addition to arguing for a sound version of the Wager, Jordan also argues that there is a version of Evidentialism compatible with a principled use of pragmatic arguments, and that the Argument from Divine Silence fails. Objections found in Voltaire, Hume, and Nietzsche against the Wager are scrutinized, as are objections issued by Richard Swinburne, Richard Gale, and other contemporary philosophers. The ethics of belief, the many-gods objection, the problem of infinite utilities, and the propriety of a hope based acceptance are also examined.
The Moral Miscellany
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1773
The Moral Miscellany written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1773 with English literature categories.
Philosophies Of Place
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Author : Peter D. Hershock
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2019-06-30
Philosophies Of Place written by Peter D. Hershock and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-30 with Philosophy categories.
Humanity takes up space. Human beings, like many other species, also transform spaces. What is perhaps uniquely human is the disposition to qualitatively transform spaces into places that are charged with distinctive kinds of intergenerational significance. There is a profound, felt difference between a house as domestic space and a home as familial place or between the summit of a mountain one has climbed for the first time and the “same” rock pinnacle celebrated in ancestral narratives. Contemporary philosophical uses of the word “place” often pivot on the distinction between “space” and “place” formalized by geographer-philosopher Yi-fu Tuan, who suggested that places incorporate the experiences and aspirations of a people over the course of their moral and aesthetic engagement with sites and locations. While spaces afford possibilities for different kinds of presence—physical, emotional, cognitive, dramatic, spiritual—places emerge as different ways of being present, fuse over time, and saturate a locale with distinctively collaborative patterns of significance. This approach to issues of place, however, is emblematic of what Edward S. Casey has argued are convictions about the primacy of absolute space and time that evolved along with the progressive dominance of the scientific imagination and modern imaginations of the universal. The recent reappearance of place in Western philosophy represents a turn away from abstract and a priori reasoning and back toward phenomenal experience and the primacy of embodied and emplaced intelligence. Places are enacted through the sustainably shared practices of mutually-responsive and mutually-vulnerable agents and are as numerous in kind as we are divergent in the patterns of values and intentions. The contributors to this volume draw on resources from Asian, European, and North American traditions of thought to engage in intercultural reflection on the significance of place in philosophy and of the place of philosophy itself in the cultural, social, economic, and political domains of contemporary life. The conversation of place that results explores the meaning of intercultural philosophy, the critical interplay of place and personal identity, the meaning of appropriate emplacement, the shared place of politics and religion, and the nature of the emotionally emplaced body.
Moral Play And Counterpublic
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Author : Ineke Murakami
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2011-02-25
Moral Play And Counterpublic written by Ineke Murakami and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-25 with Drama categories.
In this study, Murakami overturns the misconception that popular English morality plays were simple medieval vehicles for disseminating conservative religious doctrine. On the contrary, Murakami finds that moral drama came into its own in the sixteenth century as a method for challenging normative views on ethics, economics, social rank, and political obligation. From its inception in itinerate troupe productions of the late fifteenth century, "moral play" served not as a cloistered form, but as a volatile public forum. This book demonstrates how the genre’s apparently inert conventions—from allegorical characters to the battle between good and evil for Mankind’s soul—veiled critical explorations of topical issues. Through close analysis of plays representing key moments of formal and ideological innovation from 1465 to 1599, Murakami makes a new argument for what is at stake in the much-discussed anxiety around the entwined social practices of professional theater and the emergent capitalist market. Moral play fostered a phenomenon that was ultimately more threatening to ‘the peace’ of the realm than either theater or the notorious market--a political self-consciousness that gave rise to ephemeral, non-elite counterpublics who defined themselves against institutional forms of authority.
Modernity S Wager
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Author : Adam B. Seligman
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2009-02-09
Modernity S Wager written by Adam B. Seligman and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-09 with Philosophy categories.
Adam Seligman, one of our most important social thinkers, continues the incisive critique of modernity he began in his previously acclaimed The Idea of Civil Society and The Problem of Trust. In this provocative new work of social philosophy, Seligman evaluates modernity's wager, namely, the gambit to liberate the modern individual from external social and religious norms by supplanting them with the rational self as its own moral authority. Yet far from ensuring the freedom of the individual, Seligman argues, "the fundamentalist doctrine of enlightened reason has called into being its own nemesis" in the forms of ethnic, racial, and identity politics. Seligman counters that the modern human must recover a notion of authority that is essentially transcendent, but which extends tolerance to those of other--or no--faiths. Through its denial of an authority rooted in an experience of transcendence, modernity fails to account for individual and collective moral action. First, deprived of a sacred source of the self, depictions of moral action are reduced to motives of self interest. Second, dismissing the sacred leaves the resurgence of religious movements unexplained. In this rigorous and imaginative study, Seligman seeks to discover a durable source of moral authority in a liberalized world. His study of shame, pride, collective guilt, and collective responsibility demonstrates the mutual relationship between individual responsibility and communal authority. Furthermore, Seligman restores the indispensable role of religious traditions--as well as the features of those traditions that enhance, rather than denigrate, tolerance. Sociologists, political theorists, moral philosophers, and intellectual historians will find Seligman's thesis enlightening, as will anyone concerned with the ethical and religious foundations of a tolerant society.