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Wittgenstein, Ethics, and Aesthetics
The View from Eternity
Häftad, 1991
455 kr
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As early as 1916, Wittgenstein states that ethics and aesthetics are one, that only through aesthetics and art can what is truly important in human life be shown. This is the first book to clarify Wittgenstein's ideas about ethics and aesthetics, and to illustrate how those ideas apply to art …
Beyond the Call of Duty
Supererogation, Obligation, and Offence
Häftad, 1991
371 kr
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A surprisingly large number of people have denied that it is possible for human moral agents to act in such a way as to go beyond or transcend what moral duty or obligation requires of them. Some of this opposition to the possibility of supererogation, as it is called, has been motivated by …
Immanuel Kant
Häftad, 1994
487 kr
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In this book, Hoffe gives a clear, understandable description of Kant's philosophical development and influence, and he sets forth Kant's main ideas from the Critique of Pure Reason and the ethics to the philosophy of law, history, religion, and art. In his critical treatment, Hoffe shows why …
Rethinking Goodness
Av Michael A. Wallach, Lise Wallach
Inbunden, 1990
1111 kr
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Arguing that a psychological basis for ethics can be found in human motivation, Rethinking Goodness proposes a naturalistic ethics that transcends the conflict between liberalism and authoritarianism-the conflict between freedom at the price of narcissism and morality at the price of coercion. The …
Moral Personhood
An Essay in the Philosophy of Moral Psychology
Av G. E. Scott
Häftad, 1990
401 kr
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This book presents a theory of personhood and moral personhood using results from recent work on intentionality in the philosophy of mind. An account of intentional kinds, causation, and explanation is provided to resolve some current issues in moral and legal theory, and to examine questions …
Wittgenstein, Ethics, and Aesthetics
The View from Eternity
Inbunden, 1991
1111 kr
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As early as 1916, Wittgenstein states that ethics and aesthetics are one, that only through aesthetics and art can what is truly important in human life be shown. This is the first book to clarify Wittgenstein's ideas about ethics and aesthetics, and to illustrate how those ideas apply to art …
Role of Ethics in Social Theory
Essays From a Habermasian Perspective
Av Tony Smith
Inbunden, 1991
1087 kr
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This book defends the derivation of the ethical principle of universalizability presented by Jürgen Habermas, and illustrates the importance of this principle for both social science and social policy. Beginning with a comprehensive analysis of social theory, Smith divides the theory into nine …
Role of Ethics in Social Theory
Essays From a Habermasian Perspective
Av Tony Smith
Häftad, 1991
401 kr
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This book defends the derivation of the ethical principle of universalizability presented by Jürgen Habermas, and illustrates the importance of this principle for both social science and social policy. Beginning with a comprehensive analysis of social theory, Smith divides the theory into nine …
Suffering and the Beneficent Community
Beyond Libertarianism
Häftad, 1991
366 kr
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This book grounds ethics in the capacity for suffering shared by all sentient beings, and sees the avoidance and amelioration of suffering as the prima facie condition of moral interaction. Loewy sees social contract as originating in the original nurturing of individuals, and selfhood and autonomy …
Interventions in Ethics
Häftad, 1992
422 kr
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There is a growing need for interventions in ethics to counteract the tendency to generalize about moral issues. This book contains essays, written between 1965 and 1990, which focus on the need to explore such issues as the nature of moral endeavor, the request for a justification of moral …
Case for Legal Ethics
Legal Ethics as a Source for a Universal Ethic
Häftad, 1993
386 kr
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In suggesting that general ethics be modeled on legal ethics, this book is a call for more creativity in our moral experience. Luizzi argues that lawyers regularly re-think their roles and the rules related to these roles. Their rejection of a prohibition on advertising, for example, was part of …
Other Selves
Aristotle on Personal and Political Friendship
Inbunden, 1994
1111 kr
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This book presents a thorough and systematic integration of Aristotle's analysis of friendship with the main lines of the rest of his work in Politics and Nicomachean Ethics. The author conveys a clear sense of the continuing illumination that Aristotle's analysis of friendship provides to …
Other Selves
Aristotle on Personal and Political Friendship
Häftad, 1994
393 kr
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This book presents a thorough and systematic integration of Aristotle's analysis of friendship with the main lines of the rest of his work in Politics and Nicomachean Ethics. The author conveys a clear sense of the continuing illumination that Aristotle's analysis of friendship provides to …
Kant on Happiness in Ethics
Häftad, 1994
394 kr
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This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Kant's treatment of happiness in ethics. It considers the definition of happiness and the possible roles happiness may serve in ethics. It argues against critics who maintain that Kant's deontological ethic rejects happiness and against critics who …
Imagination and Ethical Ideals
Prospects for a Unified Philosophical and Psychological Understanding
Häftad, 1994
386 kr
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Imagination and Ethical Ideals is an interdisciplinary work which investigates some of the links between moral philosophy and moral psychology, with implications for both personal ethics and social philosophy. Tierney begins with the argument that the widespread fascination with moral principles …
