The Language of Morals

The Language of Morals

Author: R. M. Hare

Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks

Published: 1964

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 0198810776

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Hare has written a clear, brief, and readable introduction to ethics which looks at all the fundamental problems of the subject.


Moral Thinking

Moral Thinking

Author: R. M. Hare

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 1981-12-17

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 0191519871

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In this work, the author has fashioned out of the logical and linguistic theses of his earlier books a full-scale but readily intelligible account of moral argument.


The Principles of Morals and Legislation

The Principles of Morals and Legislation

Author: Jeremy Bentham

Publisher:

Published: 1879

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13:

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Discusses morals' functions and natures that affect the legislation in general. Bases the discussions on pain and pleasure as basic principle of law embodiment. Mentions of the circumstance influencing sensibility, general human actions, intentionality, conciousness, motives, human dispositions, consequencess of mischievous act, case of punishment, and offences' division.


Ethics After Babel

Ethics After Babel

Author: Jeffrey Stout

Publisher: Beacon Press (MA)

Published: 1990-01

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 9780807014035

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'The most thorough and persuasive attempt to date to take account of the multiplicity of moral standpoints in our culture and to argue that it does not threaten coherent moral discourse.... An unusually lucid and penetrating book.' J.B. Schneewind, Canadian Philosophical Reviews


Elements of Moral Cognition

Elements of Moral Cognition

Author: John Mikhail

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-06-13

Total Pages: 431

ISBN-13: 0521855780

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John Mikhail explores whether moral psychology is usefully modelled on aspects of Universal Grammar.


Introduction to Moral Theology

Introduction to Moral Theology

Author: Romanus Cessario

Publisher: Catholic University of America Press + ORM

Published: 2010-03-30

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 0813220378

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The 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.


The Morals of Modernity

The Morals of Modernity

Author: Charles Larmore

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1996-03-29

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780521497725

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Arguing against recent attempts to return to the virtue-centered perspective of ancient Greek ethics, these essays explore the problem of the relation between moral philosophy and modernity by studying the differences between ancient and modern ethics.


Moral Minds

Moral Minds

Author: Marc D. Hauser

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-10-13

Total Pages: 530

ISBN-13: 0061864781

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A Harvard scientist illuminates the biological basis for human morality in this groundbreaking book. With the diversity of moral attitudes found across cultures around the globe, it is easy to assume that moral perspectives are socially developed—a matter of nurture rather than nature. But in Moral Minds, Marc Hauser presents compelling evidence to the contrary, and offers a revolutionary new theory: that humans have evolved a universal moral instinct. Hauser argues that certain biologically innate moral principles propel us toward judgments of right and wrong independent of gender, education, and religion. Combining his cutting-edge research with the latest findings in cognitive psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, economics, and anthropology, Hauser explores the startling implications of his provocative theory vis-à-vis contemporary bioethics, religion, the law, and our everyday lives.


Ethics Without Morals

Ethics Without Morals

Author: Joel Marks

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 041563556X

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In this volume, Marks offers a defense of amorality as both philosophically justified and practicably livable. In so doing, the book marks a radical departure from both the new atheism and the mainstream of modern ethical philosophy. While in synch with their underlying aim of grounding human existence in a naturalistic metaphysics, the book takes both to task for maintaining a complacent embrace of morality. Marks advocates wiping the slate clean of outdated connotations by replacing the language of morality with a language of desire. The book begins with an analysis of what morality is and then argues that the concept is not instantiated in reality. Following this, the question of belief in morality is addressed: How would human life be affected if we accepted that morality does not exist? Marks argues that at the very least, a moralist would have little to complain about in an amoral world, and at best we might hope for a world that was more to our liking overall. An extended look at the human encounter with nonhuman animals serves as an illustration of amorality's potential to make both theoretical and practical headway in resolving heretofore intractable ethical problems.