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Author: James Edward John Altham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995-04-06
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780521479301
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA distinguished international team of philosophers offer responses to the work of Bernard Williams, followed by the author's reply.
Author: Julian Wuerth
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 0199587620
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJulian Wuerth offers a radically new interpretation of major themes in Kant's philosophy. He explores Kant's ontology of the mind, his transcendental idealism, his account of the mind's powers, and his theory of action, and goes on to develop an original, moral realist account of Kant's ethics.
Author: Tim Mulgan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-09-11
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 131754773X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKImagine living in the future in a world already damaged by humankind, a world where resources are insufficient to meet everyone's basic needs and where a chaotic climate makes life precarious. Then imagine looking back into the past, back to our own time and assessing the ethics of the early twenty-first century. "Ethics for a Broken World" imagines how the future might judge us and how living in a time of global environmental degradation might utterly reshape the politics and ethics of the future. This book is presented as a series of history of philosophy lectures given in the future, studying the classic texts from a past age of affluence, our own time. The central ethical questions of our time are shown to look very different from the perspective of a ruined world. The aim of "Ethics for a Broken" World is to look at our present with the benefit of hindsight - to reimagine contemporary philosophy in an historical context - and to highlight the contingency of our own moral and political ideals.
Author: Joseph Fins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-08-11
Total Pages: 395
ISBN-13: 052188750X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJoseph J. Fins calls for a reconsideration of severe brain injury treatment, including discussion of public policy and physician advocacy.
Author: Ronald Arthur Howard
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1422121062
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work focuses on one of ethics' most insidious problems: the inability to make clear and consistent choices in everyday life. The practical tools and techniques in this book can help readers design a set of personal standards, based on sound ethical reasoning, for reducing everyday compromises.
Author: Alice Crary
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2016-01-05
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 067496781X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlice Crary offers a transformative account of moral thought about human beings and animals. Instead of assuming that the world places no demands on our moral imagination, she underscores the urgency of treating the exercise of moral imagination as necessary for arriving at an adequate world-guided understanding of human beings and animals.
Author: John Henry McDowell
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1996-09
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780674576100
DOWNLOAD EBOOKModern philosophy finds it difficult to give a satisfactory picture of the place of minds in the world. In Mind and World, one of the most distinguished philosophers writing today offers his diagnosis of this difficulty and points to a cure.
Author: Ivana Marková
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-09
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 1107002559
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMarková offers a dialogical perspective to problems in daily life and professional practices involving communication, care, and therapy.
Author: David Edmonds
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-05-23
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1351608010
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArguments about ethics often centre on traditional questions of, for instance, euthanasia and abortion. Whilst these questions are still in the foreground, recent years have seen an explosion of new moral problems. Moral and political clashes are now as likely to be about sexuality and gender and the status of refugees, immigrants and borders, or the ethics of social media, safe spaces, disability and robo-ethics. How should we approach these debates? What are the issues at stake? What are the most persuasive arguments? Edited by best-selling philosophy author David Edmonds, Ethics and the Contemporary World assembles a star-studded line-up of philosophers to explore twenty-five of the most important ethical problems confronting us today. They engage with moral problems in race and gender, the environment, war and international relations, global poverty, ethics and social media, democracy, rights and moral status, and science and technology. Whether you want to learn more about the ethics of poverty, food, extremism, or artificial intelligence and enhancement, this book will help you understand the issues, sharpen your perspective and, hopefully, make up your own mind.
Author: Peter Singer
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2002-01-01
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 0300128525
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten by a religious historian, this is an introduction to early Christian thought. Focusing on major figures such as St Augustine and Gregory of Nyssa, as well as a host of less well-known thinkers, Robert Wilken chronicles the emergence of a specifically Christian intellectual tradition. In chapters on topics including early Christian worship, Christian poetry and the spiritual life, the Trinity, Christ, the Bible, and icons, Wilken shows that the energy and vitality of early Christianity arose from within the life of the Church. While early Christian thinkers drew on the philosophical and rhetorical traditions of the ancient world, it was the versatile vocabulary of the Bible that loosened their tongues and minds and allowed them to construct the world anew, intellectually and spiritually. These thinkers were not seeking to invent a world of ideas, Wilken shows, but rather to win the hearts of men and women and to change their lives. Early Christian thinkers set in place a foundation that has endured. Their writings are an irreplaceable inheritance, and Wilken shows that they can still be heard as living voices within contemporary culture.
