Ethical Sentimentalism

Author : Remy Debes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108618766
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethical Sentimentalism written by Remy Debes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years there has been a tremendous resurgence of interest in ethical sentimentalism, a moral theory first articulated during the Scottish Enlightenment. Ethical Sentimentalism promises a conception of morality that is grounded in a realistic account of human psychology, which, correspondingly, acknowledges the central place of emotion in our moral lives. However, this promise has encountered its share of philosophical difficulties. Chief among them is the question of how to square the limited scope of human motivation and psychological mechanism - so easily influenced by personal, social, and cultural circumstance - with the seeming universal scope and objective nature of moral judgment. The essays in this volume provide a comprehensive evaluation of the sentimentalist project with a particular eye to this difficulty. Each essay offers critical clarification, innovative answers to central challenges, and new directions for ethical sentimentalism in general.

Author : Michael Slote
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199741854
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moral Sentimentalism written by Michael Slote and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-05 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has recently been a good deal of interest in moral sentimentalism, but most of that interest has been exclusively either in metaethical questions about the meaning of moral terms or in normative issues about benevolence and/or caring and their place in morality. In Moral Sentimentalism Michael Slote attempts to deal with both sorts of issues and to do so, primarily, in terms of the notion or phenomenon of empathy. Hume sought to do something like this over two centuries ago, though he didn't have the term "empathy" and used "sympathy" instead; and in effect Slote is seeking to give moral sentimentalism a "second wind" in and for contemporary circumstances. By relying systematically on empathy in its account of normative morality and in what it has to say about the meaning of moral vocabulary, Moral Sentimentalism offers a unified overall ethical picture that can then be tested against ethical rationalism. Rationalism has recently dominated the scene in ethics, but by showing how sentimentalism can make coherent and intuitive sense of such preferred rationalist notions as autonomy, respect, and justice--and by showing how a sentimentalism based in empathy can deal with ethically significant aspects of the moral life that rationalism tends to ignore or skimp on--Slote hopes a wider and more active debate between rationalism and sentimentalism can be set in motion. There are signs that sentimentalist modes of thought are gaining new footholds on the way ethics is done, and this new book is very hopeful about these possibilities.

Author : Michael Slote
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0195391446
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moral Sentimentalism written by Michael Slote and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2010-01-05 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been a good deal of interest in moral sentimentalism in recent years, but most of that interest has been exclusively either in meta-ethical questions or in normative issues about caring or benevolence. This book presents a systematic revival of moral sentimentalism across both normative and meta-ethical issues.

Author : Neil Roughley
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443883174
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Moral Sentimentalism written by Neil Roughley and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-18 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Slote has long been one of the foremost contributors to discussions in moral theory. Both his work on consequentialism and his particular version of virtue ethics have been highly influential. In recent years, Slote has developed a distinctive and original voice, placing his various theoretical endeavours under the title of “sentimentalism”. His key ethical work in this context is Moral Sentimentalism, which, uniquely, defends versions of both a metaethical and aretaic sentimentalist theory. The present volume is an extended discussion of that work, containing eight original commentaries and a substantial response by Slote, which provide fresh insights into his position. The collection will be of significant value to anyone interested in contemporary debates in meta-ethics or normative ethics.

Author : Adam Smith (économiste)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Theory of Moral Sentiments written by Adam Smith (économiste) and published by . This book was released on 1812 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Remy Debes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107089611
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethical Sentimentalism written by Remy Debes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides the first comprehensive evaluation of 'sentimentalism' - one of the most dominant moral theories in philosophy today.

Author : M. Bell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230595502
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sentimentalism, Ethics and the Culture of Feeling written by M. Bell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-09-25 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sentimentalism, Ethics and the Culture of Feeling defends feeling against customary distrust or condescension by showing that the affective turn of the eighteenth-century cult of sentiment, despite its sometimes surreal manifestations, has led to a positive culture of feeling. The very reaction against sentimentalism has taught us to identity sentimentality. Fiction, moreover, remains a principal means not just of discriminating quality of feeling but of appreciating its essentially imaginative nature.

Author : David Hume
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals written by David Hume and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Remy Debes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781108666954
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Ethical Sentimentalism written by Remy Debes and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides the first comprehensive evaluation of 'sentimentalism' - one of the most dominant moral theories in philosophy today

Author : Stan van Hooft
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317544773
Total Pages : 529 pages
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Download or read book The Handbook of Virtue Ethics written by Stan van Hooft and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virtue ethics has emerged as a distinct field within moral theory - whether as an alternative account of right action or as a conception of normativity which departs entirely from the obligatoriness of morality - and has proved itself invaluable to many aspects of contemporary applied ethics. Virtue ethics now flourishes in philosophy, sociology and theology and its applications extend to law, politics and bioethics. "The Handbook of Virtue Ethics" brings together leading international scholars to provide an overview of the field. Each chapter summarizes and assesses the most important work on a particular topic and sets this work in the context of historical developments. Taking a global approach by embracing a variety of major cultural traditions along with the Western, the "Handbook" maps the emergence of virtue ethics and provides a framework for future developments.