The Responsibility Of Reason

Author : Ralph Hancock
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1442207396
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Responsibility of Reason written by Ralph Hancock and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2011-01-16 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Responsibility of Reason, Ralph C. Hancock undertakes no less than to answer the Heideggerian challenge. Offering trenchant and original interpretations of Aristotle, Heidegger, Strauss, and Alexis de Tocqueville, he argues that Tocqueville saw the essential more clearly than apparently deeper philosophers. Hancock addresses political theorists on the question of the grounding of liberalism, and, at the same time, philosophers on the most basic questions of the meaning and limits of reason. Moreover, he shows how these questions are for us inseparable.

Author : Joel Feinberg
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780534625573
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reason and Responsibility written by Joel Feinberg and published by Wadsworth Publishing Company. This book was released on 2005 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Twelfth Edition of this best-selling, topically organized anthology provides a superb balance of historical selections and recent material. This new edition features more readings than ever before--79 total--all, where necessary, in the finest translations available. The readings complement each other and naturally build on the topic being covered. Clear, concise introductions to each Part provide just enough guidance to let students learn from experiencing the readings themselves. The text's long-heralded selection of readings covers topics such as reason and religious belief, human knowledge, mind and its place in nature, determinism, free will and responsibility, and morality and its critics in five parts with careful attention to opposing points of view.

Author : Ingmar Persson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199676550
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Morality to the End of Reason written by Ingmar Persson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ingmar Persson presents a new analysis of common sense morality—in particular the act-omission doctrine and the doctrine of double effect. He traces both doctrines to a theory of rights and a conception of responsibility as based on causation, and provides an original account of what it is to have a reason for action.

Author : Hilary Bok
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400822734
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedom and Responsibility written by Hilary Bok and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can we reconcile the idea that we are free and responsible agents with the idea that what we do is determined according to natural laws? For centuries, philosophers have tried in different ways to show that we can. Hilary Bok takes a fresh approach here, as she seeks to show that the two ideas are compatible by drawing on the distinction between practical and theoretical reasoning. Bok argues that when we engage in practical reasoning--the kind that involves asking "what should I do?" and sifting through alternatives to find the most justifiable course of action--we have reason to hold ourselves responsible for what we do. But when we engage in theoretical reasoning--searching for causal explanations of events--we have no reason to apply concepts like freedom and responsibility. Bok contends that libertarians' arguments against "compatibilist" justifications of moral responsibility fail because they describe human actions only from the standpoint of theoretical reasoning. To establish this claim, she examines which conceptions of freedom of the will and moral responsibility are relevant to practical reasoning and shows that these conceptions are not vulnerable to many objections that libertarians have directed against compatibilists. Bok concludes that the truth or falsity of the claim that we are free and responsible agents in the sense those conceptions spell out is ultimately independent of deterministic accounts of the causes of human actions. Clearly written and powerfully argued, Freedom and Responsibility is a major addition to current debate about some of philosophy's oldest and deepest questions.

Author : Bertrand Russell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0192854232
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Problems of Philosophy written by Bertrand Russell and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic work, first published in 1912, has never been supplanted as an approachable introduction to the theory of philosophical enquiry. It gives Russell's views on such subjects as the distinction between appearance and reality, the existence and nature of matter, idealism, knowledge by acquaintance and by description, induction, truth and falsehood, the distinction between knowledge, error and probable opinion, and the limits and value of philosophical knowledge.

Author : Joseph Raz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199693811
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Normativity to Responsibility written by Joseph Raz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-12-08 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are our duties or rights? How should we act? What are we responsible for? Joseph Raz examines the philosophical issues underlying these everyday questions. He explores the nature of normativity--the reasoning behind certain beliefs and emotions about how we should behave--and offers a novel account of responsibility.

Author : Mark Alznauer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107078121
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hegel's Theory of Responsibility written by Mark Alznauer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-19 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book-length treatment of a central concept in Hegel's practical philosophy - the theory of responsibility. This theory is both original and radical in its emphasis on the role and importance of social and historical conditions as a context for our actions.

Author : Susan Searls Giroux
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804775117
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between Race and Reason written by Susan Searls Giroux and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-28 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inquiring into the future of the university, Susan Giroux finds a paradox at the heart of higher education in the post-civil rights era. Although we think of "post-civil rights" as representing a colorblind or race transcendent triumphalism in national political discourse, Giroux argues that our present is shaped by persistent "raceless" racism at home and permanent civilizational war abroad. She sees the university as a primary battleground in this ongoing struggle. As the heir to Enlightenment ideals of civic education, the university should be the institution for the production of an informed and reflective democratic citizenry responsible to and for the civic health of the polity, a privileged site committed to free and equal exchange in the interests of peaceful and democratic coexistence. And yet, says Giroux, historically and currently the university has failed and continues to fail in this role. Between Race and Reason engages the work of diverse intellectuals—Friedrich Nietzsche, W. E. B. Du Bois, Michel Foucault, Martin Luther King, Jr., Jacques Derrida and others—who challenge the university's past and present collusion with racism and violence. The book complements recent work done on the politics of higher education that has examined the consequences of university corporatization, militarization, and bureaucratic rationalization by focusing on the ways in which these elements of a broader neoliberal project are also racially prompted and promoted. At the same time, it undertakes to imagine how the university can be reconceived as a uniquely privileged site for critique in the interests of today's urgent imperatives for peace and justice.

Author : Howard Gardner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118047508
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Responsibility at Work written by Howard Gardner and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-12-21 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with original essays by Howard Gardner, William Damon, Mihaly Csikszenthmihalyi, and Jeanne Nakamura and based on a large-scale research project, the GoodWork® Project, Responsibility at Work reflects the information gleaned from in-depth interviews with more than 1,200 people from nine different professions—journalism, genetics, theatre, higher education, philanthropy, law, medicine, business, and pre-collegiate education. The book reveals how motivation, culture, and professional norms can intersect to produce work that is personally, socially, and economically beneficial. At the heart of the study is the revelation that the key to good work is responsilibilty—taking ownership for one’s work and its wider impact.

Author : David Michael Kleinberg-Levin
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791477827
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Before the Voice of Reason written by David Michael Kleinberg-Levin and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a critique of reason, demanding that we take greater responsibility for nature and other people.