Philosophical Analysis And Human Welfare

Author : Dickinson S. Miller
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401017921
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophical Analysis and Human Welfare written by Dickinson S. Miller and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When I was Dickinson Miller's assistant from 1940 to 1942, I soon realized that I had encountered an unusually powerful, acute, and original mind and a writer whose clear but vivid style matched the high quality of his intelligence. These traits were apparent in his comments about eminent philosophers with whom he had associated - particularly William James but also Santayana, Dewey, Husserl, and Wittgenstein - and in the mutual criticism he demanded of his writing and my first efforts. I was pleased and felt immensely privileged to share in his planning of a book devoted to "analysis, the method of philosophy at work" as in his articles on the knowledge-problem, induction, and free will. In view of the penetration of his articles, such a book seemed long overdue as James had insisted even in 1905. When Miller's projected book on "analysis at work" did not appear by 1956, I consulted him about putting together a collection of his published essays. Such a collection seemed but slight homage to one who had made such a striking contribution to American philosophy in rela tion to James and one from whom I had learned so much. He felt, however, that such a collection would be inappropriate and preferred to concentrate on a book, never finished, on "the principles of practical intelligence", the application of intelligence in a "morality of results" for human welfare.

Author : Dickinson Sergeant Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789401017930
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophical Analysis and Human Welfare written by Dickinson Sergeant Miller and published by . This book was released on 1975-05-31 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lennart Nordenfelt
Publisher : CABI
ISBN 13 : 1845930606
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animal and Human Health and Welfare written by Lennart Nordenfelt and published by CABI. This book was released on 2006-08-14 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many years scientists within human and animal science have extensively discussed the philosophy of medicine, but never have both sides communicated on their concepts of health, quality of life and welfare, with each other. This book helps clarify the difficult but central notions of health and welfare by comparing the human and animal variants of these concepts. Split into three parts this book starts by presenting a background of some of the major theories of human health and welfare, among these are the bio-statistical theory, classical theories such as Aristotle and Bentham, as well as objectivist and subjectivist contemporary theories. This is followed by a detailed discussion of theories on animal welfare and health; these include coping, feeling and preference theories. The final part of the book tests a comprehensive conceptual framework of a holistic kind, which focuses on the individual's ability to achieve it's vital goals.

Author : Stephen L. Darwall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780691092522
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Welfare and Rational Care written by Stephen L. Darwall and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What kind of life best ensures human welfare? Since the ancient Greeks, this question has been as central to ethical philosophy as to ordinary reflection. But what exactly is welfare? This question has suffered from relative neglect. And, as Stephen Darwall shows, it has done so at a price. Presenting a provocative new "rational care theory of welfare," Darwall proves that a proper understanding of welfare fundamentally changes how we think about what is best for people. Most philosophers have assumed that a person's welfare is what is good from her point of view, namely, what she has a distinctive reason to pursue. In the now standard terminology, welfare is assumed to have an "agent-relative normativity." Darwall by contrast argues that someone's good is what one should want for that person insofar as one cares for her. Welfare, in other words, is normative, but not peculiarly for the person whose welfare is at stake. In addition, Darwall makes the radical proposal that something's contributing to someone's welfare is the same thing as its being something one ought to want for her own sake, insofar as one cares. Darwall defends this theory with clarity, precision, and elegance, and with a subtle understanding of the place of sympathetic concern in the rich psychology of sympathy and empathy. His forceful arguments will change how we understand a concept central to ethics and our understanding of human bonds and human choices.

Author : Stephen Darwall
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400825326
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Welfare and Rational Care written by Stephen Darwall and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-28 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What kind of life best ensures human welfare? Since the ancient Greeks, this question has been as central to ethical philosophy as to ordinary reflection. But what exactly is welfare? This question has suffered from relative neglect. And, as Stephen Darwall shows, it has done so at a price. Presenting a provocative new "rational care theory of welfare," Darwall proves that a proper understanding of welfare fundamentally changes how we think about what is best for people. Most philosophers have assumed that a person's welfare is what is good from her point of view, namely, what she has a distinctive reason to pursue. In the now standard terminology, welfare is assumed to have an "agent-relative normativity." Darwall by contrast argues that someone's good is what one should want for that person insofar as one cares for her. Welfare, in other words, is normative, but not peculiarly for the person whose welfare is at stake. In addition, Darwall makes the radical proposal that something's contributing to someone's welfare is the same thing as its being something one ought to want for her own sake, insofar as one cares. Darwall defends this theory with clarity, precision, and elegance, and with a subtle understanding of the place of sympathetic concern in the rich psychology of sympathy and empathy. His forceful arguments will change how we understand a concept central to ethics and our understanding of human bonds and human choices.

Author : Thomas E. Hill
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199252629
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Welfare and Moral Worth written by Thomas E. Hill and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume II of the exclusive behind-the-scenes diaries of one of Ireland's most hard-working politicians ... Another hilarious account of local politics from Pat Shortt's legendary creation, the esteemed Councillor Maurice Hickey. The sequel to the popular I will in me Politics which was a runaway success - features a host of hilarious and recognisable characters.

Author : R. G. Frey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521039598
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Value, Welfare, and Morality written by R. G. Frey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-08-16 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses critical issues in normative ethical theory. Every such theory must contain not only a theory of motivation but also a theory of value, and the link that is often forged between what is valuable and what would be right is human welfare or well-being. This topic is a subject of considerable controversy in contemporary ethics, not least because of the current reconsideration of utilitarianism. Indeed, there is as much disagreement about the nature of value and its relationship to welfare and morality, as there is about the substantive content of normative ethical theories. The essays in this collection, all new and written by a distinguished team of moral philosophers, provide an overview, analysis, and an attempted resolution of those controversies. They constitute the most rigorous available account of the relationship among value, welfare, and morality.

Author : Noel W Timms
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429878281
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Talking About Welfare written by Noel W Timms and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-18 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1976 Talking About Welfare is a collection of essays providing a general survey of the problems facing social welfare. The book introduces a number of philosophers, social workers and social administrators, concentrating on problems in describing a general philosophical orientation to social work, what it means to understand another person, and to problems in describing and justifying social work and social welfare activity. The essays collected contribute to discussion of a wide range of welfare issues, principally that of personal and social welfare, the moral justification of welfare provision, and conceptions of community.

Author : Thomas E. Hill Jr.
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191530956
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Welfare and Moral Worth written by Thomas E. Hill Jr. and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2002-07-11 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Hill, a leading figure in the recent development of Kantian moral philosophy, presents a series of essays that interpret and develop Kant's ideas on ethics. The first part of the book focuses on basic concepts: a priori method, a good will, categorical imperatives, autonomy, and constructivist strategies of argument. Hill goes on to consider aspects of human welfare, and then moral worth—the nature and grounds of moral assessment of persons as deserving esteem or blame. He offers illuminating discussions of happiness, beneficence, personal values, conscience, moral desert, moral dilemmas, and feelings of regret. He is critical of Kant at many points, but he shows how many familiar objections miss the mark. Two previously unpublished essays challenge the views of other influential Kant scholars and defend alternative interpretations of Kant on beneficence, supererogation, and what it means to 'set oneself an end'. These clear and careful writings show moral, poltical, and social philosophers just how valuable Kantian ethical theory can be in addressing practical matters.

Author : Raymond Plant
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135195668
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Philosophy and Social Welfare (Routledge Revivals) written by Raymond Plant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-07-15 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This re-issued work, first published in 1980, represents a work of normative political philosophy which argues positively for the centrality of the obligation to meet the various demands of social need in our society, and will be of particular interest to students of politics, philosophy, social politics and administration. Bringing the insights of analytical Political Philosophy to bear on the issues of social welfare and welfare provision, the authors discuss such issues as the basis of the sense of stigma involved in the receipt of welfare benefits, the right of welfare and the concepts of ‘community’.