The Geometry Of Desert

Author : Shelly Kagan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190233729
Total Pages : 675 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Geometry of Desert written by Shelly Kagan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-04 with total page 675 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People differ in terms of how morally deserving they are. And it is a good thing if people get what they deserve. Accordingly, it is important to work out an adequate theory of moral desert. But while certain aspects of such a theory have been frequently discussed in the philosophical literature, many others have been surprisingly neglected. For example, if it is indeed true that it is morally good for people to get what they deserve, does it always do the same amount of good when someone gets what they deserve? Or does it matter how deserving the person is? If we cannot give someone exactly what they deserve, is it better to give too much-or better to give too little? Does being twice as virtuous make you twice as deserving? And how are we to take into account the thought that what you deserve depends in part on how others are doing? The Geometry of Desert explores a number of these less familiar questions, using graphs to illustrate the various possible answers. The result is a more careful investigation into the nature of moral desert than has ever previously been offered, one that reveals desert to have a hidden complexity that most of us have failed to recognize.

Author : Mathematical Association of America
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521531627
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Changing Shape of Geometry written by Mathematical Association of America and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-09 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of popular articles on geometry from distinguished mathematicians and educationalists.

Author : Stephen Kershnar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000429210
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desert Collapses written by Stephen Kershnar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-18 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People consider desert part of our moral world. It structures how we think about important areas such as love, punishment, and work. This book argues that no one deserves anything. If this is correct, then claims that people deserve general and specific things are false. At the heart of desert is the notion of moral credit or discredit. People deserve good things (credit) when they are good people or do desirable things. These desirable things might be right, good, or virtuous acts. People deserve bad things (discredit) when they are bad people or do undesirable things. On some theories, people deserve credit in general terms. For instance, they deserve a good life. On other theories, people deserve credit in specific terms. For instance, they deserve specific incomes, jobs, punishments, relationships, or reputations. The author’s argument against desert rests on three claims: There is no adequate theory of what desert is. Even if there were an adequate theory of what desert is, nothing grounds (justifies) desert. Even if there were an adequate theory of what desert is and something were to ground it, there is no plausible account of what people deserve. Desert Collapses will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working in ethics and political philosophy.

Author : Shelly Kagan
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 019152008X
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Limits of Morality written by Shelly Kagan and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1989-03-09 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of us believe that there are limits to the sacrifices that morality can demand of us. We also think that certain types of acts are simply forbidden, even when necessary for promoting the overall good. Here Kagan argues that attempts to defend these sorts of moral limit are inadequate. In thus rejecting two of the most fundamental features of commonsense morality, the book offers a sustained attack on our ordinary moral views.

Author : Randall Watson
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1680031627
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Geometry of Wishes written by Randall Watson and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-26 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Randall Watson’s The Geometry of Wishes, as much a subtle narrative sequence as it is a collection of lyrical meditations, an ecstatic generosity arises from an elegiac base, moving through our inescapable patterns of loss to emerge as an invocation of our mutuality, our tenderness. Refusing easy sentiment, these poems, resonant and limber, traverse the complexities of longing that beguile us, deepening our lives, giving them both gravity and lightness. Teaching Myself to Read I want to call it autopsia, I want to call it aubade, I want to call it tenderness, return: in the flower’s throat the history of bees

Author : Bertrand Russell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Essay on the Foundations of Geometry written by Bertrand Russell and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Shelly Kagan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192565176
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Count Animals, more or less written by Shelly Kagan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-05 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people agree that animals count morally, but how exactly should we take animals into account? A prominent stance in contemporary ethical discussions is that animals have the same moral status that people do, and so in moral deliberation the similar interests of animals and people should be given the very same consideration. In How to Count Animals, more or less, Shelly Kagan sets out and defends a hierarchical approach in which people count more than animals do and some animals count more than others. For the most part, moral theories have not been developed in such a way as to take account of differences in status. By arguing for a hierarchical account of morality - and exploring what status sensitive principles might look like - Kagan reveals just how much work needs to be done to arrive at an adequate view of our duties toward animals, and of morality more generally.

Author : Sue Johnston-Wilder
Publisher : Paul Chapman Educational Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781412911696
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Developing Thinking in Geometry written by Sue Johnston-Wilder and published by Paul Chapman Educational Publishing. This book was released on 2005-09-14 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "All readers can use this book to reignite their fascination with mathematics. Fosters not only a curiosity about geometry itself but crucially focuses on how learners can actively engage in thinking about geometry and its central key ideas."-Sylvia Johnson, Professor, Sheffield Hallam University"Exudes activity and interactivity. A book for learning geometry, learning to think more deeply about geometry, and also about its teaching and learning."-David Pimm, Professor, University of AlbertaDeveloping Thinking in Geometry enables teachers and their support staff to experience and teach geometric thinking. Discussing key teaching principles, the book and its accompanying interactive CD-ROM include many activities encouraging readers to extend their own learning, and teaching practices.Drawing on innovative approaches for teaching and learning geometry developed by the Open University's Centre for Mathematics Education, this resource is constructed around the following key themes:InvarianceLanguage and points of viewReasoning using invarianceVisualizing and representing

Author : Ida Soulard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788867494521
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Manual for a Future Desert written by Ida Soulard and published by . This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The desert and desertification are concepts with unstable, unfixed definitions that haunt current politics and aesthetics. Manual for a future desert proposes a full-spectrum scanning of the desert and its multiple implications across cultural, technological, political, and ecological concerns. Emerging from an artistic research program conducted in the Chihuahuan Desert on western Texas, this book is a time-space capsule; it collects routes, tools, and understandings on the desert in order to address and act upon issues that shape present and future realities. It is a manual for tapping into the exigency of the desert; it determines the coordinates for finding a future desert without deserting the future --

Author : Shing-Tung Yau
Publisher : Il Saggiatore
ISBN 13 : 0465020232
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shape of Inner Space written by Shing-Tung Yau and published by Il Saggiatore. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The leading mind behind the mathematics of string theory discusses how geometry explains the universe we see. Illustrations.