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Author: Holger Zaborowski
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010-02-04
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 0199576777
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn analysis of the most important features of Robert Spaemann's philosophy. Holger Zaborowski demonstrates the importance of Spaemann's contribution to a number of contemporary debates in philosophy and theology and explains the unity of his thought.
Author: Robert Spaemann
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0199281815
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn examination and defence of the concept of personality, long central to Western moral culture but now increasingly under attack. Robert Spaemann tackles urgent practical questions, such as our treatment of the severely disabled human and the moral status of intelligent non-human animals.
Author: Robert Spaemann
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780199688050
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe German philosopher Robert Spaemann is one of the most important living thinkers in Europe today. This volume presents a selection of essays that span his career, from his first published academic essay on the origin of sociology (1953) to his more recent work in anthropology and thephilosophy of religion. Spaemann is best known for his work on topical questions in ethics, politics, and education, but the light he casts on these questions derives from his more fundamental studies in metaphysics, the philosophy of nature, anthropology, and the philosophy of religion.At the core of the essays contained in this book is the concept of nature and the notion of the human person. Both are best understood, according to Spaemann, in light of the metaphysics and anthropology found in the classical and Christian tradition, which provides an account of the intelligibilityand integrity of things and beings in the world that safeguards their value against the modern threat of reductionism and fragmentation. A Robert Spaemann Reader shows that Spaemann's profound intellectual formation in this tradition yields penetrating insights into a wide range of subjects,including God, education, art, human action, freedom, evolution, politics, and human dignity.
Author: Robert Spaemann
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2012-01-09
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 080286693X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat does it mean to love someone? What does the concept of human dignity mean, and what are its consequences? What marks the end of a person's life? Is personhood more than consciousness? These perplexing questions lurk beneath the surface of everyday life, surfacing only to demand urgent attention in crises. Renowned German philosopher Robert Spaemann addresses these and other foundational enigmas in three eloquent short essays. Speaking wisdom to controversy, he offers carefully considered, novel approaches to key philosophical and theological questions about the nature of human love ("The Paradoxes of Love"), dignity ("Human Dignity and Human Nature"), and death ("Is Brain Death the Death of a Human Person?").
Author: Robert Spaemann
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2010-06-15
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 1621891119
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe question of the nature of humanity is one of the most complex of all philosophical and theological inquiries. Where might one look to find a decent answer to this question? Should we turn to an investigation of genetics and DNA for such answers? Should we look to the history of humanity's adaption and evolution? Should we look to humanity's cultural achievements and the form of its social life? In this intriguing and provocative collection of essays, philosopher Robert Spaemann reacts against what he calls "scientistic" anthropology and ventures to take up afresh the quaestio de homine, "the question of man." Spaemann contends that when it comes to the nagging question of what we truly are as human beings, understanding our chemical make-up or evolutionary past simply cannot give us the full picture. Instead, without doing away with the findings of modern evolutionary science, Spaemann offers successive treatments of human nature, human evolution, and human dignity, which paint a full and compelling picture of the meaning of human life. Crucial to any anthropology, he demonstrates, is our future as well as our past. And our relationship to God as well as to our next-door neighbor. All of these themes coalesce in a vital contribution to the question of what it means to be human.
Author: Robert Spaemann
Publisher:
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780415029667
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this excellent and clearly-written introduction to ethical thinking, Spaemann provides a stimulating discussion of the fundamental concepts we use every day when we deliberate, alone or with others, about the moral aspects of our action.
Author: Robert Spaemann
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2005-03-16
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780567042316
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChristian philosopher Robert Spaemann takes the reader on a quest for the fundamental principles of ethics. Writing in a clear style accessible to non-specialists, drawing both on ancient and modern philosophy, from Aristotle, Plato and Aquinas to Kant and Hegel, he discovers the intimate relationship between ethics and ontology - the science of being. This book is written for theologians as well as philosophers - indeed for anyone who is concerned with the meaning of a 'life well lived', with good and evil and the search for happiness.
Author: Martin Rhonheimer
Publisher: CUA Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 489
ISBN-13: 0813217997
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Perspective of the Acting Person introduces readers to one of the most important and provocative thinkers in contemporary moral philosophy
Author: Holger Zaborowski
Publisher: CUA Press
Published: 2010-08
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 0813217865
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe essays of this volume examine natural moral law, different natural law theories, and the role that natural law can and should play in our contemporary society
Author: Angelika Krebs
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9783110158304
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIs nature's value only instrumental value for human beings or does nature also have intrinsic value? Can traditional anthropocentrism be defended or must we move to a new, physiocentric moral position? This study develops a critical taxonomy or "map" of thirteen arguments for the conservation of nature. It defends the moral intrinsic value of sentient animals, but not of nonsentient nature. The arguments are phrased in a simple, plastic, and concise language.
