Download or read book An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections written by Francis Hutcheson and published by . This book was released on 1728 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Illustrations on the Moral Sense written by Francis Hutcheson and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Also contains the Burnet/Hutcheson correspondence.
Download or read book An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections written by Francis Hutcheson and published by . This book was released on 1728 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On the Nature and Conduct of the Passions with Illustrations on Moral Sense 1728 written by Francis Hutcheson and published by Clinamen Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A work dealing with the bases of morality and virtue, both public and private. Hutcheson argues that the natural inclination of the human being is to be virtuous, since the pleasures of being virtuous are the greatest we can experience. Individual human beings have a common inbuilt morality because of the human constitution. In addition to the five senses, he believed there was a moral sense, both equal and complementary to these five. The picture he paints is of a human mentality positively geared to harmonious society, which stumbles and fails only when selfish interest gets in the way. Selfish interest though, was for him only a secondary phenomenon, a failure of the system, which can be corrected if only people could be brought to realize their own nature and the nature of their senses.
Download or read book An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections 2ith Illustrations on the Moral Sense written by Francis Hutcheson and published by . This book was released on 1742 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rational Rules written by Shaun Nichols and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-11 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moral systems, like normative systems more broadly, involve complex mental representations. Rational Rules proposes that moral learning can be understood in terms of general-purpose rational learning procedures. Nichols argues that statistical learning can help answer a wide range of questions about moral thought: Why do people think that rules apply to actions rather than consequences? Why do people expect new rules to be focused on actions rather than consequences? How do people come to believe a principle of liberty, according to which whatever is not expressly prohibited is permitted? How do people decide that some normative claims hold universally while others hold only relative to some group? The resulting account has both empiricist and rationalist features: since the learning procedures are domain-general, the result is an empiricist theory of a key part of moral development, and since the learning procedures are forms of rational inference, the account entails that crucial parts of our moral system enjoy rational credentials. Moral rules can also be rational in the sense that they can be effective for achieving our ends, given our ecological settings. Rational Rules argues that at least some central components of our moral systems are indeed ecologically rational: they are good at helping us attain common goals. Nichols argues that the account might be extended to capture moral motivation as a special case of a much more general phenomenon of normative motivation. On this view, a basic form of rule representation brings motivation along automatically, and so part of the explanation for why we follow moral rules is that we are built to follow rules quite generally.
Download or read book An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections With Illustrations Upon the Moral Sense By Francis Hutcheson The Third Edition written by Francis Hutcheson and published by . This book was released on 1769 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Short Introduction to Moral Philosophy written by Francis Hutcheson and published by . This book was released on 1747 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Embers and the Stars written by Erazim Kohák and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is hard to put this profound book into a category. Despite the author's criticisms of Thoreau, it is more like Walden than any other book I have read. . . . The book makes great strides toward bringing the best insights from medieval philosophy and from contemporary environmental ethics together. Anyone interested in both of these areas must read this book."—Daniel A. Dombrowski, The Thomist "Those who share Kohák's concern to understand nature as other than a mere resource or matter in motion will find his temporally oriented interpretation of nature instructive. It is here in particular that Kohák turns moments of experience to account philosophically, turning what we habitually overlook or avoid into an opportunity and basis for self-knowledge. This is an impassioned attempt to see the vital order of nature and the moral order of our humanity as one."—Ethics
Download or read book An Inquiry Into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue written by Francis Hutcheson and published by . This book was released on 1726 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Moral Imagination written by John Paul Lederach and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in hardcover in 2005.
Download or read book Agency Moral Identity and Free Will written by David Weissman and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is agency in all we do: thinking, doing, or making. We invent a tune, play, or use it to celebrate an occasion. Or we make a conceptual leap and ask more abstract questions about the conditions for agency. They include autonomy and self-appraisal, each contested by arguments immersing us in circumstances we don’t control. But can it be true we that have no personal responsibility for all we think and do? Agency: Moral Identity and Free Will proposes that deliberation, choice, and free will emerged within the evolutionary history of animals with a physical advantage: organisms having cell walls or exoskeletons had an internal space within which to protect themselves from external threats or encounters. This defense was both structural and active: such organisms could ignore intrusions or inhibit risky behavior. Their capacities evolved with time: inhibition became the power to deliberate and choose the manner of one’s responses. Hence the ability of humans and some other animals to determine their reactions to problematic situations or to information that alters values and choices. This is free will as a material power, not as the conclusion to a conceptual argument. Having it makes us morally responsible for much we do. It prefigures moral identity. Closely argued but plainly written, Agency: Moral Identity and Free Will speaks for autonomy and responsibility when both are eclipsed by ideas that embed us in history or tradition. Our sense of moral choice and freedom is accurate. We are not altogether the creatures of our circumstances.
Download or read book An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections written by Francis Hutcheson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections: With Illustrations on the Moral Sense Ch, perhaps, a more exact Theory Of Morals may be formed} than any which has yet appeared: and hopes that this Attempt, to {hew the fair. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections written by Francis Hutcheson and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections written by Francis Hutcheson and published by . This book was released on 1728 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Sense and Goodness Without God written by Richard Carrier and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2005-02-23 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If God does not exist, then what does? Is there good and evil, and should we care? How do we know what’s true anyway? And can we make any sense of this universe, or our own lives? Sense and Goodness answers all these questions in lavish detail, without complex jargon. A complete worldview is presented and defended, covering every subject from knowledge to art, from metaphysics to morality, from theology to politics. Topics include free will, the nature of the universe, the meaning of life, and much more, arguing from scientific evidence that there is only a physical, natural world without gods or spirits, but that we can still live a life of love, meaning, and joy.
