Moral Philosophy

Author : Wolff, Jonathan
Publisher : W.W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393428176
Total Pages : 9 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Moral Philosophy written by Wolff, Jonathan and published by W.W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From respected philosopher and writer Jonathan Wolff, this brief introduction to ethics stimulates independent thought, emphasizes real-world examples, and provides clear and engaging introductions to key moral theories and the thinkers behind them. The new Second Edition offers expanded coverage of moral reasoning, as well as two thoughtful and contemporary new chapters on applying moral philosophy and the ethics of race. A companion primary source collection, Readings in Moral Philosophy, amplifies issues discussed in the text, connecting them to problems in applied ethics.

Author : James Rachels
Publisher : McGraw Hill
ISBN 13 : 0077147987
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Elements of Moral Philosophy 7e written by James Rachels and published by McGraw Hill. This book was released on 2012-03-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Firmly established as the standard text for undergraduate courses in ethics, James Rachels and Stuart Rachels’ The Elements of Moral Philosophy introduces readers to major moral concepts and theories through eloquent explanations and compelling, thought-provoking discussions.

Author : Daniel R. DeNicola
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1460406605
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moral Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction written by Daniel R. DeNicola and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moral Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction is a compact yet comprehensive book offering an explication and critique of the major theories that have shaped philosophical ethics. Engaging with both historical and contemporary figures, this book explores the scope, limits, and requirements of morality. DeNicola traces our various attempts to ground morality: in nature, in religion, in culture, in social contracts, and in aspects of the human person such as reason, emotions, caring, and intuition.

Author : Anne-Marie Søndergaard Christensen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198866690
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moral Philosophy and Moral Life written by Anne-Marie Søndergaard Christensen and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021-01-03 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne-Marie Søndergaard Christensen presents a new account of the role of moral philosophy and its relationship to our ordinary moral lives. She challenges the idea that moral theories have an authoritative explanatory or action-guiding role, and develops instead a descriptive, pluralistic, and elucidatory conception of moral philosophy.

Author : James Rachels
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780877224051
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Elements of Moral Philosophy written by James Rachels and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Socrates said that moral philosophy deals with 'no small matter, but how we ought to live'. Beginning with a minimum conception of what morality is, the author offers discussions of the most important ethical theories. He includes treatments of such topics as cultural relativism, ethical subjectivism, psychological egoism, and ethical egoism.

Author : Catherine Wilson
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783742011
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Metaethics from a First Person Standpoint written by Catherine Wilson and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metaethics from a First Person Standpoint addresses in a novel format the major topics and themes of contemporary metaethics, the study of the analysis of moral thought and judgement. Metathetics is less concerned with what practices are right or wrong than with what we mean by ‘right’ and ‘wrong.’ Looking at a wide spectrum of topics including moral language, realism and anti-realism, reasons and motives, relativism, and moral progress, this book engages students and general readers in order to enhance their understanding of morality and moral discourse as cultural practices. Catherine Wilson innovatively employs a first-person narrator to report step-by-step an individual’s reflections, beginning from a position of radical scepticism, on the possibility of objective moral knowledge. The reader is invited to follow along with this reasoning, and to challenge or agree with each major point. Incrementally, the narrator is led to certain definite conclusions about ‘oughts’ and norms in connection with self-interest, prudence, social norms, and finally morality. Scepticism is overcome, and the narrator arrives at a good understanding of how moral knowledge and moral progress are possible, though frequently long in coming. Accessibly written, Metaethics from a First Person Standpoint presupposes no prior training in philosophy and is a must-read for philosophers, students and general readers interested in gaining a better understanding of morality as a personal philosophical quest.

Author : John Rawls
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674042565
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy written by John Rawls and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constantly revised and refined over three decades, Rawls's lectures on various historical figures reflect his developing and changing views on the history of liberalism and democracy. With its careful analyses of the doctrine of the social contract, utilitarianism, and socialism, this volume has a critical place in the traditions it expounds.

Author : Sacha Golob
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108215556
Total Pages : 766 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Moral Philosophy written by Sacha Golob and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-31 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With fifty-four chapters charting the development of moral philosophy in the Western world, this volume examines the key thinkers and texts and their influence on the history of moral thought from the pre-Socratics to the present day. Topics including Epicureanism, humanism, Jewish and Arabic thought, perfectionism, pragmatism, idealism and intuitionism are all explored, as are figures including Aristotle, Boethius, Spinoza, Hobbes, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Mill, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre and Rawls, as well as numerous key ideas and schools of thought. Chapters are written by leading experts in the field, drawing on the latest research to offer rigorous analysis of the canonical figures and movements of this branch of philosophy. The volume provides a comprehensive yet philosophically advanced resource for students and teachers alike as they approach, and refine their understanding of, the central issues in moral thought.

Author : Louis P. Pojman
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603845038
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moral Philosophy: A Reader written by Louis P. Pojman and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of classic and contemporary readings in ethics presents sharp, competing views on a wide range of fundamentally important topics: moral relativism and objectivism, ethical egoism, value theory, utilitarianism, deontological ethics, virtue ethics, ethics and religion, and applied ethics. The Fourth Edition dramatically increases the volume’s utility by expanding and updating the selections and introductions while retaining the structure that has made previous editions so successful.

Author : Jussi Suikkanen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429839235
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Methodology and Moral Philosophy written by Jussi Suikkanen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-31 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many ethicists either accept the reflective equilibrium method or think that anything goes in ethical theorizing as long as the results are plausible. The aim of this book is to advance methodological thinking in ethics beyond these common attitudes and to raise new methodological questions about how moral philosophy should be done. What are we entitled to assume as the starting-point of our ethical inquiry? What is the role of empirical sciences in ethics? Is there just one general method for doing moral philosophy or should different questions in moral philosophy be answered in different ways? Are there argumentative structures and strategies that we should be encouraged to use or typical argumentative patterns that we should avoid? This volume brings together leading moral philosophers to consider these questions. The chapters investigate the prospects of empirical ethics, outline new methods of ethics, evaluate recent methodological advances, and explore whether different areas of moral philosophy are methodologically continuous or independent of one another. The aim of Methodology and Moral Philosophy is to make moral philosophers more self-aware and reflective of the way in which they do moral philosophy and also to encourage them to take part in methodological debates.