Kantian Dignity And Trolley Problems In The Literature Of Richard Wright

Author : Michael Wainwright
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031402162
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kantian Dignity and Trolley Problems in the Literature of Richard Wright written by Michael Wainwright and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-10-27 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the literature of African-American author Richard Wright and the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, arguing that Wright was not only the foremost proponent of minoritarian protest literature, but also a groundbreaking minoritarian exponent of philosophical literature. In presenting this argument, the volume defends trolley problems from the criticism that some philosophers level against them by promoting their use as an interpretive tool for literary scholars. Starting with Martha C. Nussbaum’s interventions in literary theory concerning Henry James and perceptive equilibrium, this book draws on the philosophical thoughts of her contemporaries—Philippa Foot, John Rawls, Judith Jarvis Thomson, and Derek Parfit—to analyze Uncle Tom’s Children, especially “Down by the Riverside,” alongside other works by Wright. This approach emphasizes Wright’s recognition of the importance and integrity of Kant’s concept of dignity.

Author : David Edmonds
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691165637
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Would You Kill the Fat Man? written by David Edmonds and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people feel it's wrong to kill the fat man.

Author : Thomas D. Parsons
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108428789
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethical Challenges in Digital Psychology and Cyberpsychology written by Thomas D. Parsons and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the ethical issues of cyberpsychology research and praxes, which arise in algorithmically paired people and technologies.

Author : Meryl Altman
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004431217
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beauvoir in Time written by Meryl Altman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beauvoir in Time situates Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex in the historical context of its writing and in later contexts of its international reception, from then till now. The book takes up three aspects of Beauvoir's work more recent feminists find embarrassing: "bad sex," "dated" views about lesbians, and intersections with race and class. Through close reading of Beauvoir's writing in many genres, alongside contemporaneous discourses (good and bad novels in French and English, outmoded psychoanalytic and sexological authorities, ethnographic surrealism, the writing of Richard Wright and Franz Fanon), and in light of her travels to the U.S. and China, the author uncovers insights more recent feminist methodologies obscure, showing that Beauvoir is still good to think with today.

Author : Aaron Ross Powell
Publisher : Cato Institute
ISBN 13 : 194442413X
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arguments for Liberty written by Aaron Ross Powell and published by Cato Institute. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two schools of thought have long dominated libertarian discussions about ethics: utilitarianism and natural rights. Those two theories are important, but they’re not the only ways people think about ethics and political philosophy. In Arguments for Liberty, you’ll find a broader approach to libertarianism. In each of Arguments for Liberty’s nine chapters a different political philosopher discusses how his or her preferred school of thought judges political institutions and why libertarianism best meets that standard. Though they end up in the same place, the paths they take diverge in fascinating ways. Readers will find in these pages not only an excellent introduction to libertarianism, but also a primer on some of the most important political and ethical theories. Assuming little or no training in academic philosophy, the essays guide readers through a continuous moral conversation spanning centuries and continents, from Aristotle in ancient Athens to twentieth-century philosopher John Rawls in the halls of Harvard. What’s the best political system? What standards should we use to decide, and why? Arguments for Liberty is a guide to thinking about these questions. It’s also a powerful, nine-fold argument for the goodness and importance of human liberty.

Author : Philippa Foot
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191622915
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Natural Goodness written by Philippa Foot and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2003-10-02 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philippa Foot has for many years been one of the most distinctive and influential thinkers in moral philosophy. Long dissatisfied with the moral theories of her contemporaries, she has gradually evolved a theory of her own that is radically opposed not only to emotivism and prescriptivism but also to the whole subjectivist, anti-naturalist movement deriving from David Hume. Dissatisfied also with both Kantian and utilitarian ethics, she claims to have isolated a special form of evaluation that predicates goodness and defect only to living things considered as such: she finds this form of evaluation in moral judgements. Her vivid discussion ranges over topics such as practical rationality, erring conscience, and the relation between virtue and happiness, ending with a critique of Nietzsche's immoralism. Natural Goodness is the long-awaited exposition of a highly original approach to moral philosophy, representing a fundamental break away from the assumptions of recent debates. Foot challenges many prominent philosophical arguments and attitudes; hers is not, however, a work of dry theory, but full of life and feeling, written for anyone intrigued by the deepest questions about goodness and human life. This beautifully written book offers a new beginning for moral philosophy.

Author : Adil E. Shamoo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199709602
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Responsible Conduct of Research written by Adil E. Shamoo and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-12 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent scandals and controversies, such as data fabrication in federally funded science, data manipulation and distortion in private industry, and human embryonic stem cell research, illustrate the importance of ethics in science. Responsible Conduct of Research, now in a completely updated second edition, provides an introduction to the social, ethical, and legal issues facing scientists today.

Author : Christina Hendricks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781989014189
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Philosophy written by Christina Hendricks and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-27 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We often make judgments about good and bad, right and wrong. Philosophical ethics is the critical examination of these and other concepts central to how we evaluate our own and each others' behavior and choices. This text examines some of the main threads of discussion on these topics that have developed over the last couple of millenia, mostly within the Western cultural tradition.The book is designed to be used alone or alongside a reader of historical and contemporary original sources, and is freely available in web and digital formats at https: //press.rebus.community/intro-to-phil-ethics/. If you are adopting or adapting this book for a course, please let us know on our adoption form for the Introduction to Philosophy open textbook series: https: //docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdwf2E7bRGvWefjhNZ07kgpgnNFxVxxp-iidPE5gfDBQNGBGg/viewform?usp=sf_link. Cover art by Heather Salazar; cover design by Jonathan Lashley. One of nine books in the Introduction to Philosophy open textbook serie

Author : Marshall Berman
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9780860917854
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All that is Solid Melts Into Air written by Marshall Berman and published by Verso. This book was released on 1983 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The experience of modernization -- the dizzying social changes that swept millions of people into the capitalist world -- and modernism in art, literature and architecture are brilliantly integrated in this account.

Author : Thomas S Kidd
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465022774
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God of Liberty written by Thomas S Kidd and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "thought-provoking, meticulously researched" testament to evangelical Christians' crucial contribution to American independence and a timely appeal for the same spiritual vitality today (Washington Times). At the dawn of the Revolutionary War, America was already a nation of diverse faiths-the First Great Awakening and Enlightenment concepts such as deism and atheism had endowed the colonists with varying and often opposed religious beliefs. Despite their differences, however, Americans found common ground against British tyranny and formed an alliance that would power the American Revolution. In God of Liberty, historian Thomas S. Kidd offers the first comprehensive account of religion's role during this transformative period and how it gave form to our nation and sustained it through its tumultuous birth -- and how it can be a force within our country during times of transition today.