The Radical Choice and Moral Theory
Author: 3Island Press
Publisher:
Published: 1994-10-31
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9789401105026
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: 3Island Press
Publisher:
Published: 1994-10-31
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9789401105026
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Zhenming Zhai
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9401105014
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In a crisp, original style the author approaches the crucial question of moral theory, the `is--ought' problem via communicative argumentation. Moving to the end of Habermas's conception of the communicative action, he introduces the concept of `radical choice' as the key to the transition from the descriptive to the normative. Phenomenological subjectivity of the intersubjective life-world is being vindicated as the `arch-value' of all derivative values, or the first principle for all normative precepts. With exceptional acumen and mastery of the philosophical argument, the author -- a young native Chinese lately trained in a Western university -- delineates a fascinating route along which the philosophical question of justification raised in the analytic tradition can be answered on the basis of phenomenology. A noteworthy contribution to the interplay between the Anglo--American and Continental schools of philosophy.
Author: David Schmidtz
Publisher:
Published: 1995-01
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780691034010
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Is it rational to be moral? How do rationality and morality fit together with being human? These questions are at the heart of David Schmidtz's exploration of the connections between rationality and morality. This inquiry leads into both metaethics and rational choice theory, as Schmidtz develops conceptions of what it is to be moral and what it is to be rational. He defends a fairly expansive conception of rational choice, considering how ends as well as means can be rationally chosen and explaining the role of self-imposed constraints in a rational life plan. His moral theory is dualistic, ranging over social structure as well as personal conduct and building both individual and collective rationality into its rules of recognition for morals. To the "why be moral" question, Schmidtz responds that being moral is rational, but he does not assume we have reasons to be rational. Instead, Schmidtz argues that being moral is rational in a particular way and that beings like us in situations like ours have reasons to be rational in just that way. This approach allows him to identify decisive reasons to be moral; at the same time, it explains why immorality is as prevalent as it is. This book thus offers a set of interesting and realistic conclusions about how morality fits into the lives of humanly rational agents operating in an institutional context like our own.
Author: Charles Taylor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1985-03-28
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780521317504
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Philosophical Papers will interest a very wide range of philosophers and students of the human sciences.
Author: Richard John White
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780742561007
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What is a good life? What does it mean to be a good person? Richard White answers these questions by considering aspects of moral goodness through the virtues: courage, temperance, justice, compassion, and wisdom. White explores how moral virtues affect and support social movements such as pacifism, environmentalism, multiculturalism, and animal rights. Drawing on the classics, White includes historical and cross-cultural analysis and examines the lives of Socrates, Buddha, and Gandhi, who lived virtuous lives, to help the reader understand and acquire moral wisdom. Book jacket.
Author: Sandra Jane Fairbanks
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-03-01
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 0429723962
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book explains Kantian morality against an interrelated set of criticisms that constitute the most influential contemporary critique of Kantian morality. It demonstrates that a theory which emphasizes the guidance of impartial moral principles does not threaten a person's feelings of attachment.
Author: Robert S. Cohen
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 1996-10-31
Total Pages: 532
ISBN-13: 9780792332336
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Author: Stephen O'Kane
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →O'Kane meticulously explores the problem of ethics and morality in modern society and endeavours to develop a contractual theory of ethics to overcome these problems. Ethics and Radical Freedom is a profound academic work that will form a reliable and enduring resource for researchers and students in this field.
Author: J. Baron
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9401582262
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Public controversies - such as those about the distribution of goods between rich and poor, trade and population policies, allocation of medical resources, and the tradeoff between environment al protection and economic efficiency - often hinge on fundamental views about how we ought to make decisions tImt affect each other, that is, what principles we ought to follow. Efforts to find an acceptable public philosophy, a set of such principles on which people might agree, have foundered because of dis agreement among philosophers and others who are concerned with such issues. One view, which I shall develop and defend here, holds that decisions that affect others should be made according to an overall evaluation of the consequences of each option. This consequentialist view is opposed by a variety of alternatives, but many of the alternatives have in COlllmon a basis in moral intuition. To take a simple example, consequentialism holds that, other things equal, if we have decided that it is better to let a terminally ill patient die than to prolong her agony by keeping her alive, then we ought to kill her.
Author: Jonathan Lear
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-06-30
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 0674040023
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Presents the story of Plenty Coups, the last great Chief of the Crow Nation. This title contains a philosophical and ethical inquiry into a people faced with the end of their way of life.