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Book Axiological Pluralism

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lucia Busatta
  • Publisher : Springer Nature
  • Release : 2021-09-02
  • ISBN : 3030784754
  • Pages : 252 pages

Download or read book Axiological Pluralism written by Lucia Busatta and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the features and functionality of the relationship between the law, individual or collective values and medical-scientific evidence when they have to be interpreted by judges, courts and para-jurisdictional bodies. The various degrees to which scientific data and moral values have been integrated into the legal discourse reveal the need for a systematic review of the options and solutions that judges have elaborated on. In turn, the book presents a systematic approach, based on a proposed pattern for classifying these various degrees, together with an in-depth analysis of the multi-layered role of jurisdictions and the means available to them for properly handling new legal demands arising in plural societies. The book outlines a model that makes it possible to focus on and address these issues in a sustainable manner, that is, to respond to individual requests and technological advances in the field of biolaw by consistently and effectively applying suitable legal instruments and jurisdictional interpretation.

Book Religious Pluralism and Values in the Public Sphere

Download or read book Religious Pluralism and Values in the Public Sphere written by Lenn E. Goodman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-07 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does tolerance require us to deny our deep differences or give up all claims to truth, to trade our received traditions for skepticism or relativism? Cultural philosopher Lenn E. Goodman argues that we can respect one another and learn from one another's ways without either sharing them or relinquishing our own.

Book Towards a Phenomenological Axiology

Download or read book Towards a Phenomenological Axiology written by Roberta De Monticelli and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book attempts to open up a path towards a phenomenological theory of values (more technically, a phenomenological axiology). By drawing on everyday experience, and dissociating the notion of value from that of tradition, it shows how emotional sensibility can be integrated to practical reason. This project was prompted by the persuasion that the fragility of democracy, and the current public irrelevance of the ideal principles which support it, largely depend on the inability of modern philosophy to overcome the well-entrenched skepticism about the power of practical reason. The book begins with a phenomenology of cynical consciousness, continues with a survey of still influential theories of value rooted in 20th century philosophy, and finally offers an outline of a bottom-up axiology that revives the anti-skeptical legacy of phenomenology, without ignoring the standards set by contemporary metaethics.

Book Max Scheler in Dialogue

Download or read book Max Scheler in Dialogue written by Susan Gottlöber and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-18 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores Max Scheler’s role within the philosophical and sociological debates of his time into the 21st century. Scheler was an interpreter, a transmitter of, and respondent to the philosophical and sociological tradition. He was an interlocutor for his contemporaries, and an inspiration for subsequent and current debates in philosophy, psychology, and political thought. Both young and established scholars shed light on central and less investigated aspects of Scheler’s thought, such as the question of moral facts, personal individuality, cosmopolitanism, and opportunities for intercultural understanding. The contributors delve into Scheler’s influence on thinkers such as Tischner or Løgstrup, as well as his role as a key figure within Catholic thought. The book appeals to students and researchers while exploring how engaging with Scheler can benefit contemporary debates on embodiment, psychopathology, and value pluralism.

Book Liberalism and its Practice

Download or read book Liberalism and its Practice written by Dan Avnon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liberalism and its Practice brings together leading authorities who provide an excellent insight into the meaning and practice of liberalism. This book explores current debates surrounding liberalism at the end of the twentieth century and what it has to offer in practice. Its focus is two of liberalism's greatest emerging challenges: multiculturalism and states struggling with the transition to democracy. It considers considers the significant tensions that these pressures bring to liberal frameworks and asks what the viable alternatives are.

Book Vice Epistemology

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ian James Kidd
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2020-10-14
  • ISBN : 1351380869
  • Pages : 197 pages

Download or read book Vice Epistemology written by Ian James Kidd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-14 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the most problematic human behaviors involve vices of the mind such as arrogance, closed-mindedness, dogmatism, gullibility, and intellectual cowardice, as well as wishful or conspiratorial thinking. What sorts of things are epistemic vices? How do we detect and mitigate them? How and why do these vices prevent us from acquiring knowledge, and what is their role in sustaining patterns of ignorance? What is their relation to implicit or unconscious bias? How do epistemic vices and systems of social oppression relate to one another? Do we unwittingly absorb such traits from the process of socialization and communities around us? Are epistemic vices traits for which we can blamed? Can there be institutional and collective epistemic vices? This book seeks to answer these important questions about the vices of the mind and their roles in our social and epistemic lives, and is the first collection of its kind. Organized into three parts, chapters by outstanding scholars explore the nature of epistemic vices, specific examples of these vices, and case studies in applied vice epistemology, including education and politics. Alongside these foundational questions, the volume offers sophisticated accounts of vices both new and familiar. These include epistemic arrogance and servility, epistemic injustice, epistemic snobbishness, conspiratorial thinking, procrastination, and forms of closed-mindedness. Vice Epistemology is essential reading for students of ethics, epistemology, and virtue theory, and various areas of applied, feminist, and social philosophy. It will also be of interest to practitioners, scholars, and activists in politics, law, and education.

Book Pluralism and Liberal Democracy

Download or read book Pluralism and Liberal Democracy written by Richard E. Flathman and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2005-09-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turns to the task of how to explain, justify, and encourage the concept, practice, and institutionalization of pluralism. By examining and analyzing the accounts and explanations of four philosophers, the author augments the theories of pluralism familiar to students and scholars of politics and political theory.

Book Rethinking Punishment

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  • Author : Leo Zaibert
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2018-04-19
  • ISBN : 110867660X
  • Pages : 278 pages

Download or read book Rethinking Punishment written by Leo Zaibert and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The age-old debate about what constitutes just punishment has become deadlocked. Retributivists continue to privilege desert over all else, and consequentialists continue to privilege punishment's expected positive consequences, such as deterrence or rehabilitation, over all else. In this important intervention into the debate, Leo Zaibert argues that despite some obvious differences, these traditional positions are structurally very similar, and that the deadlock between them stems from the fact they both oversimplify the problem of punishment. Proponents of these positions pay insufficient attention to the conflicts of values that punishment, even when justified, generates. Mobilizing recent developments in moral philosophy, Zaibert offers a properly pluralistic justification of punishment that is necessarily more complex than its traditional counterparts. An understanding of this complexity should promote a more cautious approach to inflicting punishment on individual wrongdoers and to developing punitive policies and institutions.

Book Moral Neuroeducation for a Democratic and Pluralistic Society

Download or read book Moral Neuroeducation for a Democratic and Pluralistic Society written by Patrici Calvo and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-27 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together a group of top scholars on ethics and moral neuroeducation to cover the specific field of moral learning. Although there are many studies on neural bases of human learning and the application processes in different fields of human activity, such as education, economics or politics, very few of them have delved into the specific field of moral learning. This book brings forward a discursive and cordial ethical concept suitable for the theoretical-practical development of moral neuroeducation, as well as a set of guidelines for the design of an educational model that, based on moral neuroeducation, contributes to the resolution of social problems and the eradication of undesirable patterns and behaviors such as hate speech, corruption, intolerance, nepotism, aporophobia or xenophobia. Furthermore it contains a management approach for the application of this educational model to the different areas of activity involved in social and human development. A must read for students, educators and researchers in the field of moral philosophy, (applied) ethics ethics and any other discipline working with reciprocity (economics, politics, health, etc.).

Book Place Based Conservation

Download or read book Place Based Conservation written by William P. Stewart and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of “Place” has become prominent in natural resource management, as professionals increasingly recognize the importance of scale, place-specific meanings, local knowledge, and social-ecological dynamics. Place-Based Conservation: Perspectives from the Social Sciences offers a thorough examination of the topic, dividing its exploration into four broad areas. Place-Based Conservation provides a comprehensive resource for researchers and practitioners to help build the conceptual grounding necessary to understand and to effectively practice place-based conservation.

Book Christianity  Tolerance and Pluralism

Download or read book Christianity Tolerance and Pluralism written by Michael Jinkins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a sustained, critical and theological engagement with arguably the most crucial aspect of contemporary society - its diversity. The author finds in the social theory of Isaiah Berlin a number of fruitful ways to reframe the debate over these questions, and to contribute to a more positive conversation regarding our fundamental differences. The book focuses particularly on Berlin's critique of monism and idealistic utopianism, arguing that pluralism does not represent a failure in the nature of human society, but a superabundance of possibilities in a created world grounded in the character of God. Bringing Berlin's thought into conversation with other social theorists, philosophers and Christian theologians, the book provides leaders and members of faith communities with a viable model to move beyond tolerance as mere forbearance to a grace which consists of respect and radical acceptance of others.

Book Polish Axiology

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stanisław Jedynak
  • Publisher : CRVP
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 9781565181410
  • Pages : 310 pages

Download or read book Polish Axiology written by Stanisław Jedynak and published by CRVP. This book was released on with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Utility  Progress  and Technology  Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the International Society for Utilitarian Studies

Download or read book Utility Progress and Technology Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the International Society for Utilitarian Studies written by Schefczyk, Michael and published by KIT Scientific Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-27 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects selected papers delivered at the 15th Conference of the International Society for Utilitarian Studies, which was held at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in July 2018. It includes papers dealing with the past, present, and future of utilitarianism – the theory that human happiness is the fundamental moral value – as well as on its applications to animal ethics, population ethics, and the future of humanity, among other topics.

Book Contemporary Pragmatism  Volume 6  Number 2  December 2009

Download or read book Contemporary Pragmatism Volume 6 Number 2 December 2009 written by Mitchell Aboulafia and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents Articles Lawrence Cahoone: Local Naturalism Mark Dietrich Tschaepe: Pragmatics and Pragmatic Considerations in Explanation Stephen S. Bush: Nothing Outside the Text: Derrida and Brandom on Language and World Scott F. Aikin: Prospects for Peircean Epistemic Infinitism Guy Axtell and Philip Olson: Three Independent Factors in Epistemology Stephen M. Fishman and Lucille McCarthy: John Dewey on Happiness: Going Against the Grain of Contemporary Thought Jay Schulkin: Life Experiences and Educational Sensibilities Discussion J. Caleb Clanton and Andrew T. Forcehimes: Can Peircean Epistemic Perfectionists Bid Farewell to Deweyan Democracy? Robert B. Talisse: Reply to Clanton and Forcehimes

Book Czech Philosophy in the XXth Century

Download or read book Czech Philosophy in the XXth Century written by Lubomír Nový and published by CRVP. This book was released on 1994 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ethical Evidence and Policymaking

Download or read book Ethical Evidence and Policymaking written by Ron Iphofen and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2022-07-29 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This important book offers practical advice for using evidence and research in policymaking. The book has two aims. First, it builds a case for ethics and global values in research and knowledge exchange, and second, it examines specific policy areas and how evidence can guide practice. The book covers important policy areas including the GM debate, the environment, Black Lives Matter and COVID-19. Each chapter assesses the ethical challenges, the status of evidence in explaining or describing the issue and possible solutions to the problem. The book will enable policymakers and their advisors to seek evidence for their decisions from research that has been conducted ethically and with integrity.

Book American Aesthetics

    Book Details:
  • Author : Walter B. Gulick
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Release : 2020-05-01
  • ISBN : 1438478593
  • Pages : 430 pages

Download or read book American Aesthetics written by Walter B. Gulick and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although there are distinctly American artists—Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Grandma Moses, Thomas Hart Benton, and Andy Warhol, for example—very little attention has been devoted to formulating any distinctively American characteristics of aesthetic judgment and practice. This volume takes a step in this direction, presenting an introductory essay on the possibility of such a distinctly American tradition, and a collection of essays exploring particular examples from a variety of angles. Some of the essays in this collection extend pragmatist and process insights about the important place aesthetics has in molding and assessing experience. Other essays examine the place of American aesthetics in relation to such particular forms of art as painting, literature, music, and film. Three essays attend to the aesthetic aspects of a flourishing life. In each of the essays, American aesthetics is understood to arise out of deeply felt personal, historical, and cultural backgrounds. Consequently, not only are such relatively abstract notions as harmony, fit, elegance, proportion, and the like involved in aesthetic judgment, but also religious, political, and social factors become embroiled in aesthetic discernment. Thus the ongoing pattern of American aesthetics is shown to be distinguishable from such other varieties of aesthetic thought as analytic aesthetics, New Criticism, and postmodern approaches to aesthetics.