The Limits Of Morality
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Author | : Shelly Kagan |
Publisher | : Clarendon Press |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 1989-03-09 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 019152008X |
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Most of us believe that there are limits to the sacrifices that morality can demand of us. We also think that certain types of acts are simply forbidden, even when necessary for promoting the overall good. Here Kagan argues that attempts to defend these sorts of moral limit are inadequate. In thus rejecting two of the most fundamental features of commonsense morality, the book offers a sustained attack on our ordinary moral views.
Author | : Russell Hardin |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0226316203 |
Download Morality Within the Limits of Reason Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This provocative, lucidly written reconstruction of utilitarianism focuses on the practical constraints involved in ethical choice: information may be inadequate, and understanding of causes and effects may be limited. Good decision making may be especially constrained if other people are closely involved in determining an outcome. Hardin demonstrates that many of these structural issues can and should be distinguished from the thornier problems of utilitarian value theory, and he is able to show what kinds of moral conclusions we can reach within the limits of reason.
Author | : Shelly Kagan |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
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Basing itself on the premise that there are limits to the sacrifices that morality can demand on individuals, and also that certain types of acts are simply forbidden, this book argues that attempts to defend these sorts of moral limits are inadequate.
Author | : Dale Dorsey |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2016-04-21 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0191044725 |
Download The Limits of Moral Authority Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Dale Dorsey considers one of the most fundamental questions in philosophical ethics: to what extent do the demands of morality have normative authority over us and our lives? Must we conform to moral requirements? Most who have addressed this question have treated the normative significance of morality as simply a fact to be explained. But Dorsey argues that this traditional assumption is misguided. According to Dorsey, not only are we not required to conform to moral demands, conforming to morality's demands will not always even be normatively permissible---moral behavior can be (quite literally) wrong. This view is significant not only for understanding the content and force of the moral point of view, but also for understanding the basic elements of how one ought to live.
Author | : Michael J. Sandel |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2012-04-24 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1429942584 |
Download What Money Can't Buy Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we allow corporations to pay for the right to pollute the atmosphere? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars? Auctioning admission to elite universities? Selling citizenship to immigrants willing to pay? In What Money Can't Buy, Michael J. Sandel takes on one of the biggest ethical questions of our time: Is there something wrong with a world in which everything is for sale? If so, how can we prevent market values from reaching into spheres of life where they don't belong? What are the moral limits of markets? In recent decades, market values have crowded out nonmarket norms in almost every aspect of life—medicine, education, government, law, art, sports, even family life and personal relations. Without quite realizing it, Sandel argues, we have drifted from having a market economy to being a market society. Is this where we want to be?In his New York Times bestseller Justice, Sandel showed himself to be a master at illuminating, with clarity and verve, the hard moral questions we confront in our everyday lives. Now, in What Money Can't Buy, he provokes an essential discussion that we, in our market-driven age, need to have: What is the proper role of markets in a democratic society—and how can we protect the moral and civic goods that markets don't honor and that money can't buy?
Author | : Mark Osiel |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2019-02-25 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0674240200 |
Download The Right to Do Wrong Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Much of what we could do, we shouldn’t—and we don’t. Mark Osiel shows that common morality—expressed as shame, outrage, and stigma—is society’s first line of defense against transgressions. Social norms can be indefensible, but when they complement the law, they can save us from an alternative that is far worse: a repressive legal regime.
Author | : Marcel van Ackeren |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2015-09-16 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 131758130X |
Download The Limits of Moral Obligation Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This volume responds to the growing interest in finding explanations for why moral claims may lose their validity based on what they ask of their addressees. Two main ideas relate to that question: the moral demandingness objection and the principle "ought implies can." Though both of these ideas can be understood to provide an answer to the same question, they have usually been discussed separately in the philosophical literature. The aim of this collection is to provide a focused and comprehensive discussion of these two ideas and the ways in which they relate to one another, and to take a closer look at the consequences for the limits of moral normativity in general. Chapters engage with contemporary discussions surrounding "ought implies can" as well as current debates on moral demandingness, and argue that applying the moral demandingness objection to the entire range of normative ethical theories also calls for an analysis of its (metaethical) presuppositions. The contributions to this volume are at the leading edge of ethical theory, and have implications for moral theorists, philosophers of action, and those working in metaethics, theoretical ethics and applied ethics.
Author | : Owen Flanagan |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 508 |
Release | : 1993-08-26 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780262560740 |
Download Identity, Character, and Morality Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Many philosophers believe that normative ethics is in principle independent of psychology. By contrast, the authors of these essays explore the interconnections between psychology and moral theory. They investigate the psychological constraints on realizable ethical ideals and articulate the psychological assumptions behind traditional ethics. They also examine the ways in which the basic architecture of the mind, core emotions, patterns of individual development, social psychology, and the limits on human capacities for rational deliberation affect morality.
Author | : Bernard Williams |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2011-04-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1136807241 |
Download Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
With a new foreword by Jonathan Lear 'Remarkably lively and enjoyable...It is a very rich book, containing excellent descriptions of a variety of moral theories, and innumerable and often witty observations on topics encountered on the way.' - Times Literary Supplement Bernard Williams was one of the greatest philosophers of his generation. Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy is not only widely acknowledged to be his most important book, but also hailed a contemporary classic of moral philosophy. Drawing on the ideas of the Greek philosophers, Williams reorients ethics away from a preoccupation with universal moral theories towards ‘truth, truthfulness and the meaning of an individual life’. He explores and reflects upon the most difficult problems in contemporary philosophy and identifies new ideas about central issues such as relativism, objectivity and the possibility of ethical knowledge. This edition also includes a commentary on the text by A.W.Moore. At the time of his death in 2003, Bernard Williams was hailed by the Times as 'the outstanding moral philosopher of his age.' He taught at the Universities of Cambridge, Berkeley and Oxford and is the author of many influential books, including Morality; Descartes: The Project of Pure Enquiry (available from Routledge) and Truth and Truthfulness.
Author | : Shelly Kagan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 415 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Electronic books |
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