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The Nature Of Morality
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Author : Gilbert Harman
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1977
The Nature Of Morality written by Gilbert Harman 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 1977 with Philosophy categories.
This book is a philosophical introduction to ethics. It differs from existing texts by focusing on a basic philosophical problem about morality, its apparent immunity from observational testing. Other texts either ignore this issue altogether, in order to concentrate on interesting but largely nonphilosophical discussions of moral problems, or treat the issue as only one of several highly technical questions in something called 'meta-ethics.'
The Nature Of Morality
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Author : F. E. Trainer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
The Nature Of Morality written by F. E. Trainer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Philosophy categories.
The book gives an account of the subjectivist view of morality. Most thinking about morality assumes that moral laws exist in addition to or irrespective of what humans prefer or what consequences result. This objectivist view holds that whether or not an action is morally right is as much a fact of nature as whether or not a thing is metallic. It either is in fact metallic or it is not regardless of what humans might think or prefer.
The Birth Of Ethics
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Author : Philip Pettit
language : en
Publisher: Berkeley Tanner Lectures
Release Date : 2018
The Birth Of Ethics written by Philip Pettit and has been published by Berkeley Tanner Lectures this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Law categories.
Imagine a human society, perhaps in pre-history, in which people were generally of a psychological kind with us, had the use of natural language to communicate with one another, but did not have any properly moral concepts in which to exhort one another to meet certain standards and to lodge related claims and complaints. According to The Birth of Ethics, the members of that society would have faced a set of pressures, and made a series of adjustments in response, sufficient to put them within reach of ethical concepts. Without any planning, they would have more or less inevitably evolved a way of using such concepts to articulate desirable patterns of behavior and to hold themselves and one another responsible to those standards. Sooner or later, they would have entered ethical space. While this central claim is developed as a thesis in conjectural history or genealogy, the aim of the exercise is philosophical. Assuming that it explains the emergence of concepts and practices that are more or less equivalent to ours, the story offers us an account of the nature and role of morality. It directs us to the function that ethics plays in human life and alerts us to the character in virtue of which it can serve that function. The emerging view of morality has implications for the standard range of questions in meta-ethics and moral psychology, and enables us to understand why there are divisions in normative ethics like that between consequentialist and Kantian approaches.
Hume On The Nature Of Morality
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Author : Elizabeth S. Radcliffe
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-01-31
Hume On The Nature Of Morality written by Elizabeth S. Radcliffe 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 2022-01-31 with Philosophy categories.
David Hume's moral system involves considerations that seem at odds with one another. He insists on the reality of moral distinctions, while showing that they are founded on the human constitution. He notes the importance to morality of the consequences of actions, while emphasizing that motives are the subjects of moral judgments. He appeals to facts about human psychology as the basis for an argument that morality is founded, not on reason, but on sentiment. Yet, he insists that no "ought" can follow from an "is." He thinks that our motivation to justice must derive from our nature. Yet, he wonders how to explain why anyone would be motivated to follow rules when doing so does not further their personal interests. As an empiricist, his approach is descriptive, yet morality is prescriptive. This Element addresses these puzzles in Hume's moral theory, with reference to historical and contemporary discussions.
The Nature Of Moral Judgement
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Author : Patrick McGrath
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
The Nature Of Moral Judgement written by Patrick McGrath and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Philosophy categories.
There was a time when moral philosophy -- particularly Christian, and even more particularly Roman Catholic, moral philosophy -- was happily conceived of as a 'science' in which virtually everything could be deduced from a limited number of absolutes. There are moral philosophers who still spend a lifetime doing just this, but their philosophy becomes increasingly inadequate to cope with the new human understandings that have broken in on the world. Absolutist language and ethics can no longer be accepted with the easy assurance they once were. The author discusses the leading moral philosophers of the Anglo-Saxon School, setting out their views clearly and fairly, and criticizing always in a positive and constructive manner. Among those he discusses are A.J. Ayer, Kurt Baier, R.M. Hare, P.H. Nowell-Smith, C.L. Stevenson, Stephen Toulmin and J.O. Urmson.
The Nature Of Moral Thinking
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Author : Francis Snare
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2002-09-11
The Nature Of Moral Thinking written by Francis Snare and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-09-11 with Philosophy categories.
The Nature of Moral Thinking is an introductory text to the questions of ethics, offering a solid philosophical and historical basis for understanding the central issues. Francis Snare discusses in detail the classical philosophical arguments of Plato and Butler in relation to relativism and subjectivism and treats Marx and Nietzsche in regard to the origins and explanation of morality.
The Nature Of Morality
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Author : Arnold W. Green
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
The Nature Of Morality written by Arnold W. Green and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Family & Relationships categories.
In this book, Arnold Green discusses the standards that define moral appraisal. Standards assume roles of conduct (however contradictory the rules may be) which can be imposed during socialization only within the traditional family. Otherwise, the basis of order, which is not collective but individual, is undermined by the extreme degree of disaffection we now face. All the panaceas offered, and in some cases enforced, by one intellectual minority or another, will inevitably have a destructive impact upon our communication with one another. Contents: Perception and Ideology; Self and Family; Relativism and the Family Institution; Religion as Vital Force; Social Class and Prejudice.
The Scope Of Morality
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Author : Peter A. French
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 1979
The Scope Of Morality written by Peter A. French and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Philosophy categories.
Morality And Human Nature
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Author : Robert Mcshea
language : en
Publisher: Temple University Press
Release Date : 1990-12-06
Morality And Human Nature written by Robert Mcshea and has been published by Temple University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-12-06 with Philosophy categories.
Plato asked, "How shall a man live?" In this volume, Robert J. McShea offers an important, serious, and controversial answer to that perennial question. In this inquiry into the origins of human values, the author argues that values are based on emotions rather than on reason. The human ability to recall the past, to imagine future consequences of actions, and to be aware simultaneously of present, past, and probable future feelings form the basis of moral judgments. What is truly valuable to humans is a consequence of their species nature; thus, moral theory is the study of that nature. This is what McShea calls the human nature tradition, from "know thyself": to "the noblest study of man is man." Using ethology (studies of animal behavior), the author seeks to remind the reader of the significance of species being to the understanding of all creatures, and thus of ourselves. In viewing moral values as arising from human nature, McShea challenges a number of influential theories-notably, the belief that values are products of culture. Written out of a growing sense that our society finds itself in a moral and social limbo, Morality and Human Nature aurges that we start afresh and calls us to a continual reassessment of mores and social practices in the light of their adaptability to human feeling.
The Nature Of Moral Judgement
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
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