Moral Writings
Author: Harold Arthur Prichard
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 0199250197
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Introduction to Moral Theology
Author: Romanus Cessario
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press + ORM
Published: 2010-03-30
Total Pages: 460
ISBN-13: 0813220378
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe comprehensive introduction to Catholic moral theology by the leading theologian and author of The Moral Virtues and Theological Ethics. In Introduction to Moral Theology, Father Romanus Cessario, O.P. presents and expounds on the basic and central elements of Catholic moral theology written in the light of Veritatis splendor. Since its publication in 2001, this first book in the Catholic Moral Thought series has been widely recognized as an authoritative resource on such topics as moral theology and the good of the human person created in God’s image; natural law; principles of human action; determination of the moral good through objects, ends, and circumstances; and the virtues, gifts of the Holy Spirit, and the Beatitudes. The Catholic Moral Thought series is designed to provide students with a comprehensive presentation of both the principles of Christian conduct and the specific teachings and precepts for fulfilling the requirements of the Christian life. Soundly based in the teaching of the Church, the volumes set out the basic principles of Catholic moral thought and the application of those principles within areas of ethical concern that are of paramount importance today.
Fénelon
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2020-02-20
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0190079614
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFénelon is arguably one of the most neglected major philosophers of early modernity. His political masterwork was the most-read book in eighteenth-century France after the Bible, and yet today even specialists rarely engage his work directly. This problem is particularly acute in the Anglophone world, where only a small fraction of Fénelon's vast and influential corpus has appeared in modern English translation. This collection of new translations of Fénelon's moral and political writings renders one of the leading voices of early modern philosophy accessible to English-language audiences. Reflecting the impressive breadth of Fenelon's thought, the volume includes work on topics ranging from education to literature to religion and statecraft. In the realm of political philosophy and ethics, Fénelon was an uncompromising critic of Louis XIV and absolutism, committed to reforming France's social, political and economic institutions. In the Enlightenment, he came to be celebrated as a pioneering theorist of education and rhetoric, a prescient student of economics and international relations, and a key voice in the philosophical debates among the heirs of Descartes - not to mention his fame as one of the seventeenth-century's most preeminent theologians and spiritualists and masters of French prose. With an extensive introduction to Fénelon's life and work, this volume is a critical resource for students and scholars of French history, political philosophy, economics, education, literature, and religion.
Essays on Moral Realism
Author: Geoffrey Sayre-McCord
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780801495410
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of influential essays illustrates the range, depth, and importance of moral realism, the fundamental issues it raises, and the problems it faces.
Wittgenstein and the Moral Life
Author: Cora Diamond
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 419
ISBN-13: 0262532867
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEssays by leading scholars that take as their point of departure Cora Diamond's work on the unity of Wittgenstein's thought and her writings on moral philosophy.
The Moral Writings of John Dewey
Author: James Gouinlock
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 2009-12-02
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 1615923918
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohn Dewey (1859-1952), renowned educator and philosopher, has been called the national philosopher of American civilization. James Gouinlock''s superb collection of Dewey''s writings presents the many aspects of Dewey''s ethical thought. With this collection, students and scholars alike will more readily acknowledge Dewey''s substantial contribution to our understanding of the moral life.The selections are grouped according to topic, including: "The Nature of Moral Philosophy"; "Man, Nature, and Society"; "Value and Nature"; "Human Nature and Value"; "Value and Intelligence"; "Moral Language"; and "Social Intelligence and Democracy".
A Woman Who Defends All the Persons of Her Sex
Author: Gabrielle Suchon
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010-05-15
Total Pages: 413
ISBN-13: 0226779238
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the oppressive reign of Louis XIV, Gabrielle Suchon (1632–1703) was the most forceful female voice in France, advocating women’s freedom and self-determination, access to knowledge, and assertion of authority. This volume collects Suchon’s writing from two works—Treatise on Ethics and Politics (1693) and On the Celibate Life Freely Chosen; or, Life without Commitments (1700)—and demonstrates her to be an original philosophical and moral thinker and writer. Suchon argues that both women and men have inherently similar intellectual, corporeal, and spiritual capacities, which entitle them equally to essentially human prerogatives, and she displays her breadth of knowledge as she harnesses evidence from biblical, classical, patristic, and contemporary secular sources to bolster her claim. Forgotten over the centuries, these writings have been gaining increasing attention from feminist historians, students of philosophy, and scholars of seventeenth-century French literature and culture. This translation, from Domna C. Stanton and Rebecca M. Wilkin, marks the first time these works will appear in English.
Essays on the History of Moral Philosophy
Author: J. B. Schneewind
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 0199563012
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJ.B. Schneewind presents a selection of his published essays on ethics, the history of ethics and moral psychology, together with a new piece offering an intellectual autobiography. The essays range across the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, with a particular focus on Kant and his relation to earlier thinkers.
Moral Prejudices
Author: Annette Baier
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780674587168
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnnette Baier delivers an appeal for our fundamental moral notions to be governed not by rules and codes but by trust: a moral prejudice. Along the way, she gives us the best feminist philosophy there is. Baier's topics range from violence to love, from cruelty to justice, and are linked by a preoccupation with vulnerability and inequality of vulnerability, with trust and distrust of equals, with cooperation and isolation. Throughout, she is concerned with the theme of women's roles. In this provocative exploration of the implications of trusting to trust rather than proscription, Baier interweaves anecdote and autobiography with readings of Hume and Kant to produce an entertaining, challenging, and highly readable book.
Interpreting 2 Peter through African American Women’s Moral Writings
Author: Shively T. J. Smith
Publisher: SBL Press
Published: 2023-03-15
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1628373180
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShively T. J. Smith reconsiders what is most distinct, troubling, and potentially thrilling about the often overlooked and dismissed book of 2 Peter. Using the rhetorical strategies of nineteenth-century African American women, including Ida B. Wells, Jarena Lee, Anna Julia Cooper, and others, Smith redefines the use of biblical citations, the language of justice and righteousness, and even the matter of pseudonymity in 2 Peter. She approaches 2 Peter as an instance of Christian cultural rhetoric that forges a particular kind of community identity and behavior. This pioneering study considers how 2 Peter cultivates the kind of human relations and attitudes that speak to the values of moral people seeking justice in the past as well as today.
