Goodness And Advice

Author : Judith Jarvis Thomson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400824729
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Goodness and Advice written by Judith Jarvis Thomson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-09 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How should we live? What do we owe to other people? In Goodness and Advice, the eminent philosopher Judith Jarvis Thomson explores how we should go about answering such fundamental questions. In doing so, she makes major advances in moral philosophy, pointing to some deep problems for influential moral theories and describing the structure of a new and much more promising theory. Thomson begins by lamenting the prevalence of the idea that there is an unbridgeable gap between fact and value--that to say something is good, for example, is not to state a fact, but to do something more like expressing an attitude or feeling. She sets out to challenge this view, first by assessing the apparently powerful claims of Consequentialism. Thomson makes the striking argument that this familiar theory must ultimately fail because its basic requirement--that people should act to bring about the "most good"--is meaningless. It rests on an incoherent conception of goodness, and supplies, not mistaken advice, but no advice at all. Thomson then outlines the theory that she thinks we should opt for instead. This theory says that no acts are, simply, good: an act can at most be good in one or another way--as, for example, good for Smith or for Jones. What we ought to do is, most importantly, to avoid injustice; and whether an act is unjust is a function both of the rights of those affected, including the agent, and of how good or bad the act is for them. The book, which originated in the Tanner lectures that Thomson delivered at Princeton University's Center for Human Values in 1999, includes two chapters by Thomson ("Goodness" and "Advice"), provocative comments by four prominent scholars--Martha Nussbaum, Jerome Schneewind, Philip Fisher, and Barbara Herrnstein Smith--and replies by Thomson to those comments.

Author : André Comte-Sponville
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805045567
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues written by André Comte-Sponville and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on thinkers from Aristotle to Simone Weil, by way of Aquinas, Kant, Rilke, Nietzsche, Spinoza, and Rawls, among others, Comte-Sponville elaborates on the qualities that constitute the essence and excellence of humankind.

Author : David Meltzer
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 1452591229
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Connected to Goodness written by David Meltzer and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Meltzer reveals proven business and life principles and how to make a lot of money, help a lot of people, and have a lot of fun. "

Author : Judith Jarvis Thomson
Publisher : Open Court
ISBN 13 : 0812699513
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Normativity written by Judith Jarvis Thomson and published by Open Court. This book was released on 2015-12-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judith Jarvis Thomson's Normativity is a study of normative thought. She brings out that normative thought is not restricted to moral thought. Normative judgments divide into two sub-kinds, the evaluative and the directive; but the sub-kinds are larger than is commonly appreciated. Evaluative judgments include the judgments that such and such is a good umbrella, that Alfred is a witty comedian, and that Bert answered Carol's question correctly, as well as the judgment that David is a good human being. Directive judgments include the judgment that a toaster should toast evenly, that Edward ought to get a haircut, and that Frances must move her rook, as well as the judgment that George ought to be kind to his little brother. Thomson describes how judgments of these two sub-kinds interconnect and what makes them true when they are true. Given the extensiveness of the two sub-kinds of normative judgment, our everyday thinking is rich in normativity, and moreover, there is no gap between normative and factual thought. The widespread suspicion of the normative is therefore in large measure due to nothing deeper than an excessively narrow conception of what counts as a normative judgment.

Author : Steve Zikman
Publisher : Inner Ocean Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781930722392
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doing Good for Goodness' Sake written by Steve Zikman and published by Inner Ocean Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zikman collects real-life stories--some poignant, some hair-raising--of lifesaving rescues, mentoring troubled teens, helping terminally ill patients, and more.

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 Batz
Publisher : Good Leadership Press
ISBN 13 : 9780578402604
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Goodness Pays written by Paul Batz and published by Good Leadership Press. This book was released on 2018-11-16 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'How Goodness Pays'' is the only book that has three years of data to statistically correlate goodness behaviors of leaders to better financial results. It is also the only book that provides an easy one-question tool, the Goodness Pays Score (GPS), to assess and address your organization's goodness in leadership. This book will help CEOs, executives, business owners, and aspiring senior leaders:

Author : Eric Ortlund
Publisher : Crossway
ISBN 13 : 1433576511
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Suffering Wisely and Well written by Eric Ortlund and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2022-02-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why Suffering Exists: God's Purpose for Pain in the Life of Job and throughout Scripture Why does God allow suffering? The pain of suffering can be overwhelmingly mysterious, but the Bible does provide answers. Throughout Scripture, God allows trials in order to accomplish specific purposes in the lives of his people. When faced with suffering they experience spiritual growth; repentance from sin; or, as in the Old Testament story of Job, the chance to demonstrate devotion to God in the face of inexplicable agony. In Suffering Wisely and Well, Eric Ortlund explores different types of trials throughout Scripture, revealing the spiritual purpose for each and reassuring readers with God's promise of restoration. The majority of the book focuses on Job, one of the most well-known yet misunderstood stories of suffering. Ortlund thoughtfully analyzes the text chapter by chapter, including the doubt of Job's friends, God's response to Job's questions, and the meaning behind important imagery including references to Leviathan and Behemoth. Suffering Wisely and Well shows readers how to deepen their relationship with God during painful experiences in their own lives and how to comfort others who are hurting. Explores Lament and Redemption in Scripture: Helps readers understand how to interpret suffering from a Christian perspective Applicable: Each chapter ends with a "What Have We Learned?" summary Biblical Advice on Grief and Support: Teaches Christians how to avoid blame or legalism when addressing the suffering of others

Author : Rüdiger Bittner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197681085
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Good Things to Do written by Rüdiger Bittner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book is to show that the aim of thinking about what to do, of practical reason, is to find, not what we ought to do, but what is a good thing to do for us under the circumstances. So it argues, first, that neither under prudence nor under morality there are things we ought to do. There is no warrant for the idea of our being required, by natural law perhaps or by our rationality, to do either what helps us attain our ends or what is right for moral reasons. While common moral understanding is committed to there being things we ought to do and to our being guilty and deserving blame if we fail to do them, we can lay aside these notions without loss, indeed with benefit. Second, it explains what it is for something to be good for somebody to do under the circumstances and argues for understanding practical reason in these terms. What is good for somebody to do we find by experience: from what we go through we learn what helps and what hinders and figure out on this basis both what is prudentially useful and what is morally right to do - although in the end this difference itself gives way, and morality turns out to be a part of prudence"--

Author : Tony Johnston
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780439233842
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Any Small Goodness written by Tony Johnston and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los Angeles is a place of movie stars and fast cars and people who are too rich and people who are too poor.