Prospects For A Common Morality

Author : Gene Outka
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400820812
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prospects for a Common Morality written by Gene Outka and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1992-11-17 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume centers on debates about how far moral judgments bind across traditions and epochs. Nowadays such debates appear especially volatile, both in popular culture and intellectual discourse: although there is increasing agreement that the moral and political criteria invoked in human rights documents possess cross-cultural force, many modern and postmodern developments erode confidence in moral appeals that go beyond a local consensus or apply outside a particular community. Often the point of departure for discussion is the Enlightenment paradigm of a common morality, in which it is assumed that certain unchanging beliefs inhere in the structure of human reason. Whereas some thinkers continue to defend this paradigm, others modify it in diverse ways without abandoning entirely the attempt to address a universal audience, and still others jettison virtually all of its distinguishing features. Exhibiting a range of positions Western participants take in these debates, this volume seeks to advance the substance of the debates themselves without prejudging the outcome. Rival assessments of the Enlightenment paradigm are offered from various philosophical and theological points of view. In addition to the editors, the contributors include Robert Merrihew Adams, Annette C. Baier, Alan Donagan, Margaret A. Farley, Alan Gewirth, David Little, Richard Rorty, Jeffrey Stout, and Lee H. Yearley.

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ISBN 13 : 9781400817443
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Author : Bernard Gert
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198038720
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Common Morality written by Bernard Gert and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-08-19 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distinguished philosopher Bernard Gert presents a clear and concise introduction to what he calls "common morality"--the moral system that most thoughtful people implicitly use when making everyday, common sense moral decisions and judgments. Common Morality is useful in that--while not resolving every disagreement on controversial issues--it is able to distinguish between acceptable and unacceptable answers to moral problems.

Author : Bernard Gert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 179 pages
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Download or read book Common Morality written by Bernard Gert and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : D. Z. Phillips
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349135585
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion and Morality written by D. Z. Phillips and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflection on religion inevitably involves consideration of its relation to morality. When great evil is done to human beings, we may feel that something absolute has been violated. Can that sense, which is related to gratitude for existence, be expressed without religious concepts? Can we express central religious concerns, such as losing the self, while abandoning any religious metaphysic? Is moral obligation itself dependent on divine commands if it is to be objective, or is morality not only independent of religion, but its accuser if God is said to allow horrendous evils? In any case, what happens to the absolute claims of religion in what is, undeniably, a morally pluralistic world? These are the central questions discussed by philosophers of religion and moral philosophers in this collection. They do so in ways which bring new aspects to bear on these traditional issues.

Author : Frederick V. Simmons
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 1626163685
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love and Christian Ethics written by Frederick V. Simmons and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the heart of Christian ethics is the biblical commandment to love God and to love one's neighbor as oneself. But what is the meaning of love? Scholars have wrestled with this question since the recording of the Christian gospels, and in recent decades teachers and students of Christian ethics have engaged in vigorous debates about appropriate interpretations and implications of this critical norm. In Love and Christian Ethics, nearly two dozen leading experts analyze and assess the meaning of love from a wide range of perspectives. Chapters are organized into three areas: influential sources and exponents of Western Christian thought about the ethical significance of love, perennial theoretical questions attending that consideration, and the implications of Christian love for important social realities. Contributors bring a richness of thought and experience to deliver unprecedentedly broad and rigorous analysis of this central tenet of Christian ethics and faith. William Werpehowski provides an afterword on future trajectories for this research. Love and Christian Ethics is sure to become a benchmark resource in the field.

Author : Paul W. Diener
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780664257651
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion and Morality written by Paul W. Diener and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some people see religion and morality as undeniably connected; others see them as irreconcilably separate. Paul Diener's accessible new book looks at the connection between these two concepts and examines how various religious and philosophical systems understand morality.

Author : Albert R. Jonsen
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clinical Ethics written by Albert R. Jonsen and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1992 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clinical Ethics introduces the four-topics method of approaching ethical problems (i.e., medical indications, patient preferences, quality of life, and contextual features). Each of the four chapters represents one of the topics. In each chapter, the authors discuss cases and provide comments and recommendations. The four-topics method is an organizational process by which clinicians can begin to understand the complexities involved in ethical cases and can proceed to find a solution for each case.

Author : Abdulaziz Sachedina
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199881553
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Islamic Roots of Democratic Pluralism written by Abdulaziz Sachedina and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-04 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tackles the most significant issues facing Muslims today. Sachedina argues that we must reopen the doors of religious interpretation--to correct false interpretations, replace outdated laws, and formulate new doctrines. His book critically analyzes Muslim teachings on such issues as pluralism, civil society, war and peace, and violence and self-sacrifice.

Author : Mark Timmons
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195176545
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Morality Without Foundations written by Mark Timmons and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-11-18 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timmons defends an original metaethical view that exploits certain contextualist themes in philosophy of language and epistemology. He advances a view that employs semantic contextualism when engaging in moral discourse.