Governing Morals
Author: Alan Hunt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999-08-13
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780521646895
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is a broad-ranging history of moral regulation focusing on Britain and the US.
Author: Alan Hunt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999-08-13
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780521646895
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is a broad-ranging history of moral regulation focusing on Britain and the US.
Author: Joseph S. Nye
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0190935960
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What is the role of ethics in American foreign policy? The Trump Administration has elevated this from a theoretical question to front-page news. Should ethics even play a role, or should we only focus on defending our material interests? In Do Morals Matter? Joseph S. Nye provides a concise yet penetrating analysis of how modern American presidents have-and have not-incorporated ethics into their foreign policy. Nye examines each presidency during theAmerican era post-1945 and scores them on the success they achieved in implementing an ethical foreign policy. Alongside this, he evaluates their leadership qualities, explaining which approaches work and which ones do not.
Author: Department of Commentary People's Daily
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2019-11-20
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9813291788
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This open access book captures and elaborates on the skill of storytelling as one of the distinct leadership features of Xi Jinping, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and the President of the People’s Republic of China. It gathers the stories included in Xi’s speeches on various occasions, where they conveyed the essence of China’s history and culture, its reform and development, and the principles of China’s participating in global governance and cooperating with other countries to build a community of common destiny. The respective stories not only convey abstract and profound concepts of governance in comparatively straightforward language, but also create an immediate emotional connection between the narrator and the listener. In addition to the original stories, extensive additional materials are provided to convey the original context in which each was told, including when and to whom Xi told it, helping readers attain a deeper, intuitive understanding of their relevance.
Author: Ian Shapiro
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2012-10-30
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 0300189753
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When do governments merit our allegiance, and when should they be denied it? Ian Shapiro explores this most enduring of political dilemmas in this innovative and engaging book. Building on his highly popular Yale courses, Professor Shapiro evaluates the main contending accounts of the sources of political legitimacy. Starting with theorists of the Enlightenment, he examines the arguments put forward by utilitarians, Marxists, and theorists of the social contract. Next he turns to the anti-Enlightenment tradition that stretches from Edmund Burke to contemporary post-modernists. In the last part of the book Shapiro examines partisans and critics of democracy from Plato’s time until our own. He concludes with an assessment of democracy’s strengths and limitations as the font of political legitimacy. The book offers a lucid and accessible introduction to urgent ongoing conversations about the sources of political allegiance.
Author: Simon F. Lee
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book examines the relationship between law and morals, especially relating them to issues and events of current interest, and argues for broader participation in the debate, since it raises questions which touch the lives of us all.
Author: David Hume
Publisher:
Published: 1902
Total Pages: 419
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Enquiry concerning the principles of morals / Hume, David, 1711-1776.
Author: Shaun Nichols
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2021-02-11
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 0192640194
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Moral systems, like normative systems more broadly, involve complex mental representations. Rational Rules proposes that moral learning can be understood in terms of general-purpose rational learning procedures. Nichols argues that statistical learning can help answer a wide range of questions about moral thought: Why do people think that rules apply to actions rather than consequences? Why do people expect new rules to be focused on actions rather than consequences? How do people come to believe a principle of liberty, according to which whatever is not expressly prohibited is permitted? How do people decide that some normative claims hold universally while others hold only relative to some group? The resulting account has both empiricist and rationalist features: since the learning procedures are domain-general, the result is an empiricist theory of a key part of moral development, and since the learning procedures are forms of rational inference, the account entails that crucial parts of our moral system enjoy rational credentials. Moral rules can also be rational in the sense that they can be effective for achieving our ends, given our ecological settings. Rational Rules argues that at least some central components of our moral systems are indeed ecologically rational: they are good at helping us attain common goals. Nichols argues that the account might be extended to capture moral motivation as a special case of a much more general phenomenon of normative motivation. On this view, a basic form of rule representation brings motivation along automatically, and so part of the explanation for why we follow moral rules is that we are built to follow rules quite generally.
Author: Jeremy Bentham
Publisher:
Published: 1879
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Discusses morals' functions and natures that affect the legislation in general. Bases the discussions on pain and pleasure as basic principle of law embodiment. Mentions of the circumstance influencing sensibility, general human actions, intentionality, conciousness, motives, human dispositions, consequencess of mischievous act, case of punishment, and offences' division.
Author: Jeremy Bentham
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2021-04-11
Total Pages: 175
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation' is a book by the English philosopher and legal theorist Jeremy Bentham first published in 1789. Labelled as Bentham's "most important theoretical work," it is where Bentham develops his theory of utilitarianism, in respect of ethical theory, and is the first major book on the topic. Bentham seeks to determine what a system of laws would look like if it was constructed on a purely utilitarian basis.