Download or read book An Enquiry into Moral Notions Routledge Revivals written by John Laird and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1935, this book compares and examines what John Laird termed the ‘three most important notions in ethical science’: the concepts of virtue, duty and well-being. Laird poses the question of whether any one of these three concepts is capable of being the foundation of ethics and of supporting the other two. This is an interesting reissue, which will be of particular value to students researching the philosophy of ethics and morality.
Download or read book An Enquiry Into Moral Notions written by John Laird and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals written by David Hume and published by . This book was released on 1751 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Moral Notions written by Julius Kovesi and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Enquiries Concerning the Human Understanding and Concerning the Principles of Morals written by David Hume and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enquiry concerning the principles of morals / Hume, David, 1711-1776.
Download or read book An Enquiry Into the Original of Moral Virtue written by Archibald Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1728 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aret logia Or an Enquiry Into the Original of Moral Virtue written by Archibald Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1728 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Careful and Strict Enquiry Into the Modern Prevailing Notions of that Freedom of Will written by Jonathan Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1762 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Principles of Moral Philosophy written by George Turnbull and published by . This book was released on 1740 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Careful and Strict Inquiry Into the Modern Prevailing Notions of that Freedom of Will written by Jonathan Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1804 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Careful and Strict Enquiry Into the Modern Prevailing Notions of that Freedom of the Will written by Jonathan Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Inquiry Into the Modern Prevailing Notions Respecting that Freedom of Will which is Supposed to be Essential to Moral Agency Virtue and Vice Rewards and Punishment Praise and Blame written by Jonathan Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wittgenstein and Ethical Inquiry written by Jeremy Wisnewski and published by Continuum. This book was released on 2007-07-15 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that Wittgenstein, though himself often silent on particular ethical matters, gives us immense resources for understanding the aims appropriate to any philosophical ethics. This work re-examines some of the landmarks in the history of moral philosophy in order to cast contemporary ethical philosophy in a fresh light.
Download or read book A Careful and Strict Enquiry Into the Modern Prevailing Notions of that Freedom of the Will which is Supposed to be Essential to Moral Agency Virtue and Vice Reward and Punishment Praise and Blame written by Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals written by David Hume and published by Great Books in Philosophy. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judging it to be "of all my writings incomparably the best," Hume accurately assessed this groundbreaking classic, which continues to influence philosophical thinking on ethics to this day through the force of its ideas and its clarity of expression. Among the many insights that Hume expounds in this work is that morality is grounded in feelings, not in knowledge. Based on moral sentiment, people naturally value agreeable qualities and shun disagreeable ones. On closer analysis, Hume concludes that the feeling of agreeableness comes from an innate perception of the utility of a particular quality or person to one’s self. Anticipating later utilitarian philosophy, he maintains that the virtues that are most highly esteemed are those that have the greatest usefulness to most people. Justice, for example, is greatly prized because it ideally ensures to everyone a fair share of happiness and security. Hume puts special emphasis on altruism, which he says is rooted in the natural feeling that each of us has for our fellow human beings. When surrounded by people in enjoyable circumstances, we tend also to feel the same enjoyment, and when learning of tragedy, even among people on the other side of the world, we tend to feel sad. Out of such natural sympathy and our general moral sentiments, moral distinctions between good and bad arise, and we are motivated to direct our actions toward ideal goals, not only for ourselves but especially for others. In many ways, Hume’s thinking about ethics was considered radical in its day. His empirical method of interpreting morality as an outgrowth of innate, human emotions helped to steer later philosophy away from the transcendentalist notions of ethics that had earlier prevailed.
Download or read book Thinking in Moral Terms written by Sigrún Svavarsdóttir and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2001 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines the nature of moral judgements. In the course of developing an account of moral judgements, the author discusses issues such as: moral motivation, the nature of desire, the justification of commitments, the relation between morality and rationality, the difference between moral and scientific inquiry, and the nature of properties, of concepts, and of normativity. The author argues-non-cognitivists who construe moral judgements as mere expressions of sentiments-that moral thought employs concepts which figure into the content of both cognitive and conative states of mind. She argues that this view is not a cause for any metaphysical worries about moral properties, and rejects the idea that the difference in the distinctive action-guiding role of moral judgements is to be understood in terms of the metaphysical nature of the facts which render them true. She also rejects the widespread idea that the distinctive action-guiding role of moral judgements amounts to their being intrinsically motivating, and argues that moral judgements motivate in collaboration with a desire which employs moral concepts in representing the desired state of affairs. Against some moral naturalists, the author argues that it is not a condition on the acceptance of a moral theory that its concepts have some explanatory function, and that this marks the crucial difference between the concepts unique to moral thought and those characteristic of scientific (or proto-scientific) thought). She suggests that this reflects a difference in the aims of moral and scientific inquiry. Appreciation of the distinctive aim of moral practice is required for the mastery of moral concepts and this is why moraljudgements are invariably understood as action-guiding, even if they are not in all cases motivating.
Download or read book Exemplarist Moral Theory written by Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Exemplarist Moral Theory of Linda Zagzebski presents an original moral theory based on direct reference to exemplars of goodness, whom we identify through the emotion of admiration. Using examples of heroes, saints, and sages, she shows how narratives of exemplars and empirical work on the most admirable persons can be incorporated into the theory to serve both theoretical and practical purposes.
