Good And Evil A New Direction

Author : Richard Taylor
Publisher : Great Minds Series
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Good and Evil written by Richard Taylor and published by Great Minds Series. This book was released on 2000 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discussion of good and evil must not be confined to the sterile lecture halls of academics but related instead to ordinary human feelings, needs, and desires, says noted philosopher Richard Taylor. Efforts to understand morality by exploring human reason will always fail because we are creatures of desire as well. All morality arises from our intense and inescapable longing. The distinction between good and evil is always clouded by rationalists who convert the real problems of ethics into complex philosophical puzzles. In the first part of Good and Evil, Taylor looks for a more meaningful conception by reexamining and rejecting the whole rationalistic tradition that dominates philosophical ethics. The second part provides an empirical explanation of good and evil, noting that one does not have to look too far to find prime examples of the failure of fixed moral rules. Including important commentary on Joseph Fletcher's groundbreaking situation ethics, and Aristotle's virtues (e.g., magnanimity and pride), Taylor rounds out the book by developing a philosophy of aspiration--personal worth as an ethical ideal--to replace the morality of duty. He offers a modified form of situation ethics to fit the contemporary problems we face.

Author : Richard Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Good and Evil written by Richard Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Good and Evil: a New Direction written by Richard Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Brad Bohlen
Publisher : Bohlen Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1737845830
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A New Direction written by Brad Bohlen and published by Bohlen Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a few elves are taken prisoner by orcs from the evil city of Bellusa, Redhawk, who's already on thin ice, is expelled from the elves for his indignation toward the complacent king. Waylaid by his own conscience, Redhawk must use all that he's learned if he wants to save the elven prisoners from a morbid fate. However, being a strong mind mage just might have a few advantages… Venturing toward the human city of Sartae, where he's hoping to find what he needs to return home, Redhawk makes a few "uncommon" companions. As the small band of odd-fellows face the many challenges that lay ahead, Redhawk starts to realize that the good people of Attaireo just might be in need of some help themselves. Sometimes, the best course of action isn't always the one you were striving for.

Author : Susan Neiman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691168504
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evil in Modern Thought written by Susan Neiman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether expressed in theological or secular terms, evil poses a problem about the world's intelligibility. It confronts philosophy with fundamental questions: Can there be meaning in a world where innocents suffer? Can belief in divine power or human progress survive a cataloging of evil? Is evil profound or banal? Neiman argues that these questions impelled modern philosophy. Traditional philosophers from Leibniz to Hegel sought to defend the Creator of a world containing evil. Inevitably, their efforts--combined with those of more literary figures like Pope, Voltaire, and the Marquis de Sade--eroded belief in God's benevolence, power, and relevance, until Nietzsche claimed He had been murdered. They also yielded the distinction between natural and moral evil that we now take for granted. Neiman turns to consider philosophy's response to the Holocaust as a final moral evil, concluding that two basic stances run through modern thought. One, from Rousseau to Arendt, insists that morality demands we make evil intelligible. The other, from Voltaire to Adorno, insists that morality demands that we don't.

Author : Peter Singer
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1921351187
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The President of Good & Evil written by Peter Singer and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: President George W. Bush is the 'President of Good and Evil' - the man who, more than any other United States president in living memory, talks constantly about ethics, about values, about good and evil.This book is an attempt to hold the policies of George W. Bush, and his actions as president, up to an ethical standard - including his own. But it goes beyond that. It is also a study in a distinctively American ethic, for there are many features of his ethic that are not widely held elsewhere in the developed world. (There are also, of course, many Americans who do not share them.)Some will question whether Bush is sincere in his ethical pronouncements. While Singer highlights some flagrant inconsistencies between what he has said and what he has done, the book is not an exposi of the 'real' Bush beneath the public pronouncements. The President of Good & Evilis Singer's attempt to hold the world's most prominent moralist accountable.

Author : Karen E. Starr
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135468877
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Repair of the Soul written by Karen E. Starr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Repair of the Soul examines transformation from the perspective of Jewish mysticism and psychoanalysis, addressing the question of how one achieves self-understanding that leads not only to insight but also to meaningful change. In this beautifully written and thought-provoking book, Karen Starr draws upon a contemporary relational approach to psychoanalysis to explore the spiritual dimension of psychic change within the context of the psychoanalytic relationship. Influenced by the work of Lewis Aron, Steven Mitchell and other relational theorists, and drawing upon contemporary scholarship in the field of Jewish studies, Starr brings the ideas of the Kabbalah, the ancient Jewish mystical tradition, into dialogue with modern psychoanalytic thought. Repair of the Soul provides a scholarly integration of several kabbalistic and psychoanalytic themes relating to transformation, including faith, surrender, authenticity, and mutuality, as well as a unique exploration of the relationship of the individual to the universal. Starr uses the Kabbalah’s metaphors as a vivid framework with which to illuminate the experience of transformation in psychoanalytic process, and to explore the evolving view of the psychoanalytic relationship as one in which both parties - the analyst as well as the patient - are transformed.

Author : Paul Cliteur
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000578763
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A New Introduction to Legal Method written by Paul Cliteur and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-04-04 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New Introduction to Legal Method provides a comprehensive overview of legal science and the scientific character of legal knowledge. In five chapters, the book analyses and explores: (i) legal methodology in general, the main features of different schools of thought, and the nature of science in general; (ii) American realism, which offers an ideal starting point for law students to reflect on the material they are about to study critically; (iii) rationalism, empiricism, and logical positivism, in particular the work of Karl Popper; (iv) criticisms of essentialism; (v) the ideological and philosophical background of contemporary liberal interpretation. The inclusion of Dutch, French, and German literature sources makes this law title differ from previous writings on legal science. This textbook is ideal for students of legal method, and will be of great interest to those studying legal science, jurisprudence, legal research,and legal skills.

Author : Richard Carrier
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1452059268
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sense and Goodness Without God written by Richard Carrier and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2005-02-23 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If God does not exist, then what does? Is there good and evil, and should we care? How do we know what’s true anyway? And can we make any sense of this universe, or our own lives? Sense and Goodness answers all these questions in lavish detail, without complex jargon. A complete worldview is presented and defended, covering every subject from knowledge to art, from metaphysics to morality, from theology to politics. Topics include free will, the nature of the universe, the meaning of life, and much more, arguing from scientific evidence that there is only a physical, natural world without gods or spirits, but that we can still live a life of love, meaning, and joy.

Author : Paul Bloom
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307886867
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Just Babies written by Paul Bloom and published by Crown. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading cognitive scientist argues that a deep sense of good and evil is bred in the bone. From John Locke to Sigmund Freud, philosophers and psychologists have long believed that we begin life as blank moral slates. Many of us take for granted that babies are born selfish and that it is the role of society—and especially parents—to transform them from little sociopaths into civilized beings. In Just Babies, Paul Bloom argues that humans are in fact hardwired with a sense of morality. Drawing on groundbreaking research at Yale, Bloom demonstrates that, even before they can speak or walk, babies judge the goodness and badness of others’ actions; feel empathy and compassion; act to soothe those in distress; and have a rudimentary sense of justice. Still, this innate morality is limited, sometimes tragically. We are naturally hostile to strangers, prone to parochialism and bigotry. Bringing together insights from psychology, behavioral economics, evolutionary biology, and philosophy, Bloom explores how we have come to surpass these limitations. Along the way, he examines the morality of chimpanzees, violent psychopaths, religious extremists, and Ivy League professors, and explores our often puzzling moral feelings about sex, politics, religion, and race. In his analysis of the morality of children and adults, Bloom rejects the fashionable view that our moral decisions are driven mainly by gut feelings and unconscious biases. Just as reason has driven our great scientific discoveries, he argues, it is reason and deliberation that makes possible our moral discoveries, such as the wrongness of slavery. Ultimately, it is through our imagination, our compassion, and our uniquely human capacity for rational thought that we can transcend the primitive sense of morality we were born with, becoming more than just babies. Paul Bloom has a gift for bringing abstract ideas to life, moving seamlessly from Darwin, Herodotus, and Adam Smith to The Princess Bride, Hannibal Lecter, and Louis C.K. Vivid, witty, and intellectually probing, Just Babies offers a radical new perspective on our moral lives.