Moral Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction

Moral Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction
Author: Daniel R. DeNicola
Publisher: Broadview Press
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2018-11-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1460406605

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Moral Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction is a compact yet comprehensive book offering an explication and critique of the major theories that have shaped philosophical ethics. Engaging with both historical and contemporary figures, this book explores the scope, limits, and requirements of morality. DeNicola traces our various attempts to ground morality: in nature, in religion, in culture, in social contracts, and in aspects of the human person such as reason, emotions, caring, and intuition.

Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy

Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy
Author: John Rawls
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2009-06-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0674042565

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Constantly revised and refined over three decades, Rawls's lectures on various historical figures reflect his developing and changing views on the history of liberalism and democracy. With its careful analyses of the doctrine of the social contract, utilitarianism, and socialism, this volume has a critical place in the traditions it expounds.

Metaethics from a First Person Standpoint

Metaethics from a First Person Standpoint
Author: Catherine Wilson
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2016-01-18
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1783742011

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Metaethics from a First Person Standpoint addresses in a novel format the major topics and themes of contemporary metaethics, the study of the analysis of moral thought and judgement. Metathetics is less concerned with what practices are right or wrong than with what we mean by ‘right’ and ‘wrong.’ Looking at a wide spectrum of topics including moral language, realism and anti-realism, reasons and motives, relativism, and moral progress, this book engages students and general readers in order to enhance their understanding of morality and moral discourse as cultural practices. Catherine Wilson innovatively employs a first-person narrator to report step-by-step an individual’s reflections, beginning from a position of radical scepticism, on the possibility of objective moral knowledge. The reader is invited to follow along with this reasoning, and to challenge or agree with each major point. Incrementally, the narrator is led to certain definite conclusions about ‘oughts’ and norms in connection with self-interest, prudence, social norms, and finally morality. Scepticism is overcome, and the narrator arrives at a good understanding of how moral knowledge and moral progress are possible, though frequently long in coming. Accessibly written, Metaethics from a First Person Standpoint presupposes no prior training in philosophy and is a must-read for philosophers, students and general readers interested in gaining a better understanding of morality as a personal philosophical quest.

The Elements of Moral Philosophy

The Elements of Moral Philosophy
Author: James Rachels
Publisher:
Total Pages: 169
Release: 1986
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780877224051

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Socrates said that moral philosophy deals with 'no small matter, but how we ought to live'. Beginning with a minimum conception of what morality is, the author offers discussions of the most important ethical theories. He includes treatments of such topics as cultural relativism, ethical subjectivism, psychological egoism, and ethical egoism.

Honor in Political and Moral Philosophy

Honor in Political and Moral Philosophy
Author: Peter Olsthoorn
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2014-12-03
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1438455488

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In this history of the development of ideas of honor in Western philosophy, Peter Olsthoorn examines what honor is, how its meaning has changed, and whether it can still be of use. Political and moral philosophers from Cicero to John Stuart Mill thought that a sense of honor and concern for our reputation could help us to determine the proper thing to do, and just as important, provide us with the much-needed motive to do it. Today, outside of the military and some other pockets of resistance, the notion of honor has become seriously out of date, while the term itself has almost disappeared from our moral language. Most of us think that people ought to do what is right based on a love for jus-tice rather than from a concern with how we are perceived by others. Wide-ranging and accessible, the book explores the role of honor in not only philosophy but also literature and war to make the case that honor can still play an important role in contemporary life.

Essays on the History of Moral Philosophy

Essays on the History of Moral Philosophy
Author: J. B. Schneewind
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 466
Release: 2010
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199563012

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J.B. Schneewind presents a selection of his published essays on ethics, the history of ethics and moral psychology, together with a new piece offering an intellectual autobiography. The essays range across the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, with a particular focus on Kant and his relation to earlier thinkers.

The Moral Philosophers

The Moral Philosophers
Author: Richard J. Norman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 246
Release: 1998
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

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The second edition of this accessible book features a new chapter on Nietzsche and an entirely new Part III that covers contemporary utilitarianism, rights-based ethical theories, contractarian ethics and virtue ethics, and recent debates between realism and anti-realism in ethics. The strengths of the first edition--its readability, historical approach, coverage of specific moral philosophers, and detailed recommended reading sections at the beginning of each chapter--combined with the new material make this an essential resource for all readers interested in ethics.

Schopenhauer’s Moral Philosophy

Schopenhauer’s Moral Philosophy
Author: Patrick Hassan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2021-12-23
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1000512959

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This volume brings together internationally recognised Schopenhauer scholars to develop new perspectives on his moral philosophy. Despite anticipating and engaging with many of the arguments now recognisable in Anglophone moral philosophy, Arthur Schopenhauer has often been overlooked as a potential contributor to contemporary discourse within this domain. Not only was he one of the most important 19th-century critics of Kantian deontology, Schopenhauer also developed a plausible moral system of his own grounded in compassion. While interesting parallels can be drawn between his system and the sentimentalist tradition familiar from the likes of Hume and Hutcheson, Schopenhauer’s idiosyncratic metaphysics provide a unique approach to standard questions in moral psychology, the philosophy of action, axiology, and moral epistemology. The chapters in this book draw out the relevance and influence of Schopenhauer’s ethical program, attempting to demonstrate the as yet untapped wealth of conceptual resources for pressing moral problems. They address a wide range of topics, including: the moral status of animals; the moral permissibility of suicide; the possibility of altruistic action; the nature of virtue and asceticism; how Schopenhauer integrated Western influences with various Indian traditions of moral thinking, and more. Schopenhauer’s Moral Philosophy will be of interest to scholars and advanced students interested in Schopenhauer, 19th-century philosophy, and the history of ethics.

God and Morality

God and Morality
Author: John E. Hare
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2009-08-17
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1405195983

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God and Morality evaluates the ethical theories of four principle philosophers, Aristotle, Duns Scotus, Kant, and R.M. Hare. Uses their thinking as the basis for telling the story of the history and development of ethical thought more broadly Focuses specifically on their writings on virtue, will, duty, and consequence Concentrates on the theistic beliefs to highlight continuity of philosophical thought

Moral Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Moral Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Author: Colin Heydt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2018
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108421091

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A new account of a vital period in the history of ethics, focusing on the content of morality.