Treatises on Various Subjects (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 16)

Treatises on Various Subjects (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 16)
Author: Saint Augustine
Publisher: CUA Press
Total Pages: 490
Release: 2010-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0813211166

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The present volume consists of a collection of minor writings of St. Augustine often classified under the general title of 'Works of Moral and Practical Theology.'

Augustine

Augustine
Author: Stephen D. Eyre
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2002-05-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780830820818

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Six lessons on Christian living based on Augustine's life, his Confessions and City of God, and on a variety of passages from Scripture.

Lying and Deception

Lying and Deception
Author: Thomas L. Carson
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2010-04-29
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0191614645

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Thomas Carson offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date investigation of moral and conceptual questions about lying and deception. Part I addresses conceptual questions and offers definitions of lying, deception, and related concepts such as withholding information, "keeping someone in the dark," and "half truths." Part II deals with questions in ethical theory. Carson argues that standard debates about lying and deception between act-utilitarians and their critics are inconclusive because they rest on appeals to disputed moral intuitions. He defends a version of the golden rule and a theory of moral reasoning. His theory implies that there is a moral presumption against lying and deception that causes harm — a presumption at least as strong as that endorsed by act-utilitarianism. He uses this theory to justify his claims about the issues he addresses in Part III: deception and withholding information in sales, deception in advertising, bluffing in negotiations, the duties of professionals to inform clients, lying and deception by leaders as a pretext for fighting wars, and lying and deception about history (with special attention to the Holocaust), and cases of distorting the historical record by telling half-truths. The book concludes with a qualified defence of the view that honesty is a virtue.

Reforming the Humanities

Reforming the Humanities
Author: P. Levine
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2009-12-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 023010469X

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Through an analysis of Dante's story of Paolo and Francesco, this book combines contemporary ethical theory, literary interpretation, and historical narrative to defend the humanities as a source of moral guidance.

The Importance of What We Care About

The Importance of What We Care About
Author: Harry G. Frankfurt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 204
Release: 1988-05-27
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521336116

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A collection of thirteen seminal essays on ethics, free will, and the philosophy of mind, first published in 1988.

Dictionary of Ethics, Theology and Society

Dictionary of Ethics, Theology and Society
Author: Paul A. B. Clarke
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 961
Release: 2013-11-05
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1136120920

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This Dictionary provides a unique and groundbreaking survey of both the historical and contemporary interrelations between ethics, theology and society. In over 250 separately-authored entries, a selection of the world's leading scholars from many disciplines and many denominations present their own views on a wide range of topics. Arranged alphabetically, entries cover all aspects of philosophy, theology, ethics, economics, politics and government. Each entry includes: * a concise definition of the term * a description of the principal ideas behind it * analysis of its history, development and contemporary relevance * a detailed bibliography giving the major sources in the field The entire field is prefaced by an editorial introduction outlining its scope and diversity. Selected entries include: Animal Rights * Capital Punishment * Communism * Domestic Violence * Ethics * Evil * Government * Homophobia * Humanism * Liberation Theology * Politics * Pornography * Racism * Sexism * Society * Vivisection * Women's Ordination

From Lying to Perjury

From Lying to Perjury
Author: Laurence R. Horn
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2022-06-06
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110733811

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This volume provides new insights on lying and (intentionally) misleading in and out of the courtroom, a timely topic for scholarship and society. Not all deceptive statements are lies; not every lie under oath amounts to perjury—but what are the relevant criteria? Taxonomies of falsehood based on illocutionary force, utterance context and speakers’ intentions have been debated by linguists, moral philosophers, social psychologists and cognitive scientists. Legal scholars have examined the boundary between actual perjury and garden-variety lies. The fourteen previously unpublished essays in this book apply theoretical and empirical tools to delineate the landscape of falsehood, half-truth, perjury, and verbal manipulation, including puffery, bluffing, and bullshit. The papers in this collection address conceptual and ethical aspects of lying vs. misleading and the correlation of this opposition with the Gricean pragmatic distinction between what is said and what is implicated. The questions of truth and lies addressed in this volume have long engaged the attention of scholars in linguistics, philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, organizational research, and the law, and researchers from all these fields will find this book of interest.

Robot Ethics 2.0

Robot Ethics 2.0
Author: Patrick Lin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 441
Release: 2017-09-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0190652977

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The robot population is rising on Earth and other planets. (Mars is inhabited entirely by robots.) As robots slip into more domains of human life--from the operating room to the bedroom--they take on our morally important tasks and decisions, as well as create new risks from psychological to physical. This makes it all the more urgent to study their ethical, legal, and policy impacts. To help the robotics industry and broader society, we need to not only press ahead on a wide range of issues, but also identify new ones emerging as quickly as the field is evolving. For instance, where military robots had received much attention in the past (and are still controversial today), this volume looks toward autonomous cars here as an important case study that cuts across diverse issues, from liability to psychology to trust and more. And because robotics feeds into and is fed by AI, the Internet of Things, and other cognate fields, robot ethics must also reach into those domains, too. Expanding these discussions also means listening to new voices; robot ethics is no longer the concern of a handful of scholars. Experts from different academic disciplines and geographical areas are now playing vital roles in shaping ethical, legal, and policy discussions worldwide. So, for a more complete study, the editors of this volume look beyond the usual suspects for the latest thinking. Many of the views as represented in this cutting-edge volume are provocative--but also what we need to push forward in unfamiliar territory.

Deception and Detection in Eighteenth-century Britain

Deception and Detection in Eighteenth-century Britain
Author: John T. Lynch
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2008
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780754665281

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In the first extended treatment of the debates surrounding public deception in eighteenth-century Britain, Jack Lynch contends that forgery and fraud make explicit the usually unspoken grounds on which Britons made sense of their world. While taking up the critical philosophical questions surrounding fraud, Lynch shows that fakery takes us to the heart of eighteenth-century values as they relate to evidence, perception and memory, the relationship between art and life, historicism, and human motivation.

The Way That Leads There

The Way That Leads There
Author: Gilbert Meilaender
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2006
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 080283213X

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Saint Augustine formulated the classic Christian understanding of desire, that "our hearts are restless until they rest in God." Gilbert Meilaender maintains that this frustrated desire lies at the heart of our existence. In The Way That Leads There he takes Augustine as a "conversation partner" for exploring subjects that human beings have wrestled with for centuries -- desire, duty, politics, sex, and grief. Meilaender's carefully reasoned, insightful work rescues Augustine from many of our misperceptions and interacts meaningfully with both C. S. Lewis and Catholic moral theology, generating insights on difficult topics. The picture of life that emerges in these pages is one of incompleteness, of our inability to perfect and unify our moral lives. Yet this inability is not a cause for despair; it is rather a call to look, with Augustine, to God as the source and object of our greatest desire.