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Book Symposium on Pluralism and Ethical Theory

Download or read book Symposium on Pluralism and Ethical Theory written by Gerald Dworkin and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Symposium on Impartiality and Ethical Theory

Download or read book Symposium on Impartiality and Ethical Theory written by Symposium on Impartiality and Ethical Theory (1990, Roanoke, Va) and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Philosophy of the Information Society

Download or read book Philosophy of the Information Society written by Herbert Hrachovec and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second of two volumes of the proceedings from the 30th International Wittgenstein Symposium in Kirchberg, August 2007. It contains selected contributions on the Philosophy of media, Philosophy of the Internet, on Ethics and the political economy of information society. Also included are papers presented in a workshop on electronic philosophy resources and open source/open access.

Book Isaiah Berlin

Download or read book Isaiah Berlin written by George Crowder and published by Polity. This book was released on 2004-11-12 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible introduction to the ideas of Isaiah Berlin, this work argues that Berlin's critique of the modern enemies of liberty is exciting and powerful, but also that the coherence of his thought is threatened by a tension between its liberal and pluralist elements.

Book Pluralism in Europe

Download or read book Pluralism in Europe written by Stefan Heuser and published by Lit Verlag. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the ethical dimensions of the legal, economic and cultural challenges that diversity poses to Europe today. The topic takes the form of a question in order to highlight the need for clarification. How much pluralism does Europe need within these three basic areas of ethics? Most articles were first presented as lectures at the Societas Ethica conference in Ljubljana, August 2004. Other articles are presented here as original works. Special significance is attributed to the host country Slovenia, which has meant so much for the history of Europe and its current unification process.

Book Impartiality and Ethical Theory

Download or read book Impartiality and Ethical Theory written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book In Defense of Liberal Pluralism

Download or read book In Defense of Liberal Pluralism written by Upendra Chidella and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a critical view of Kantian and Neo-Kantian moral philosophers’ preference of universalism, the unity of morality, moral impartiality, consensus, and common morality. The central claim of the book is if the human condition is treated as complex and infested with irreducible choices and alternatives, then moral rightness and wrongness ought to operate beyond these binaries; giving epistemic status to Pluralism’s multiple rationalities. Redefining liberal-pluralism, the book also argues that moral reasoning is necessarily bound by paradoxes and contradictions, seen in our choices of life-projects, in the conflict between individual morality and common morality, and in justifying what is morally reasonable in the interpersonal framework. Equivocation in moral argumentation cannot be valued without understanding the nature of the ‘interpersonal’ that ought to sufficiently argue for moral disagreement, irreducible pluralism and limits of morality. Liberal-pluralism, thus, signifies the quasi-relational (partially admitting Gilbert Harman) nature of moral reasoning in the multi-agent framework. It also takes account of reciprocity, fairness, reasonableness, tolerance, open-ended morality, and agreeing to disagree. However, this idea of liberal-pluralism no way undermines rationality and reason, nor turns to anti-theory; rather, it only treats morality as guided by ‘reason without unification’ and ‘pluralism without relativism’.

Book Respect  Pluralism  and Justice

Download or read book Respect Pluralism and Justice written by Thomas E. Hill and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2000-03-30 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Respect, Pluralism, and Justice is a series of essays which sketch a broadly Kantian framework for moral deliberation, and then use it to address important social and political issues. What does it mean to respect humanity in a diverse world? Must respect be earned, and can it be forfeited? How, and why, should the state punish law-breakers? When, if ever, is political violence justified? How far are we responsible for the consequences of our misdeeds? How can liberals justify coercive state power in a world of diverse moral and religious beliefs? How far can we rely on conscience when it conflicts with authority? Although critical of Kant's extreme position on particular issues, Hill suggests ways to develop a Kantian approach that would emphasize the need for mutually respectful dialogue, appreciation of diversity, and sensitivity to particular contexts. In this lucid exploratory work Hill integrates the theoretical and the practical, allowing each to illuminate the other. He not only develops and extends Kantian ethical theory, but shows the role that it can play in our society.

Book Liberalism and Value Pluralism

Download or read book Liberalism and Value Pluralism written by George Crowder and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2002-05-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Value pluralism is the idea, associated with the late Isaiah Berlin, that fundamental human values are irreducibly plural and incommensurable. Ends like liberty, equality and community are intrinsic goods which can neither be ranked in an absolute hierarchy nor translated into units of a common denominator. If that is true, how can we choose among such values when they come into conflict in particular cases? In particular, what reason is there to justify the value ranking characteristic of liberal democracy, favouring personal autonomy and toleration? Recent commentators have seen value pluralism as undermining the traditional claims of liberalism to universal authority, rendering it at best no more than one political form among others with no greater claim to legitimacy. Against that view, George Crowder argues that a strong distinctive case for liberalism as a universal project is implied by value pluralism itself. Reflection on the elements of value pluralism yields a set of ethical principles, including respect for universal values, rejection of political utopianism, promotion of value diversity, accommodation of reasonable disagreement, and cultivation of civic virtues. Those principles are best satisfied by a liberal form of politics characterised by a strong commitment to personal autonomy, by policies of moderate redistribution and multiculturalism, and by constitutional restraints on democractic politics. This is the first book-length defence of liberalism on the basis of value pluralism, complementing and extending the work of Berlin and others.

Book The Georgetown Symposium on Ethics

Download or read book The Georgetown Symposium on Ethics written by Rocco Porreco and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Held Apr. 14-15, 1983. Bibliography: p. 285-293.

Book Philosophy  Religion  and the Question of Intolerance

Download or read book Philosophy Religion and the Question of Intolerance written by Mehdi Amin Razavi and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1997-07-31 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophy, Religion, and the Question of Intolerance is a diverse collection of essays united by a common starting point and theme -- the awareness that intolerance is a phenomenon encountered in diverse places and circumstances and often handled with limited success. The question of toleration, together with its cultural, social, religious, and philosophical implications, are addressed by leading authorities who offer insights from an interdisciplinary perspective. The book begins with essays by three distinguished scholars, Robert Cummings Neville, J. B. Schneewind, and John McCumber. They assess the origins of intolerance, the genesis of our concept of toleration, and the outlook for the practice of tolerance in contemporary society. Beyond the opening essays, the collection is divided into three sections. The first concentrates on the relationship of religious faith and practice to toleration and inquires how religion might either impede or promote toleration. The second section deals primarily with questions regarding tolerance in the face of modern political realities. The final section discusses ethics, namely the philosophical analysis and definition of toleration as a virtue.

Book Ethical Universals in International Business

Download or read book Ethical Universals in International Business written by F. Neil Brady and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increased understanding in international business grows both from an awareness of cultural differences as well as from an appreciation of underlying shared values across cultures. This volume focuses on the latter. It assembles the best thinking of scholars from around the world in an attempt to clarify and deepen our understanding of these ethical universals. Scholars from Germany, England, Canada, Japan, China, and the United States have contributed to this volume. They also represent diverse disciplines: economics, philosophy, business ethics, history, religion, education, and political theory. Nevertheless, they unite in their conviction that the most important values and principles in international business do no vary with geography.

Book Symposium on Pluralism and Democracy  The  Radical Pluralism  of William E  Connolly

Download or read book Symposium on Pluralism and Democracy The Radical Pluralism of William E Connolly written by Symposium on Pluralism and Democracy: The Radical Pluralism of William E. Connolly (2007, Nottingham) and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ibss  Political Science  1992

Download or read book Ibss Political Science 1992 written by British Library of Political and Economic Science and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The IBSS is the essential tool for librarians, university departments, research institutions and any public or private institution whose work requires access to up-to-date and comprehensive knowledge of the social sciences.

Book Symposium on Sterba s The Triumph of Practice Over Theory in Ethics

Download or read book Symposium on Sterba s The Triumph of Practice Over Theory in Ethics written by James P. Sterba and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Disappearance of Moral Knowledge

Download or read book The Disappearance of Moral Knowledge written by Dallas Willard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on an unfinished manuscript by the late philosopher Dallas Willard, this book makes the case that the 20th century saw a massive shift in Western beliefs and attitudes concerning the possibility of moral knowledge, such that knowledge of the moral life and of its conduct is no longer routinely available from the social institutions long thought to be responsible for it. In this sense, moral knowledge—as a publicly available resource for living—has disappeared. Via a detailed survey of main developments in ethical theory from the late 19th through the late 20th centuries, Willard explains philosophy’s role in this shift. In pointing out the shortcomings of these developments, he shows that the shift was not the result of rational argument or discovery, but largely of arational social forces—in other words, there was no good reason for moral knowledge to have disappeared. The Disappearance of Moral Knowledge is a unique contribution to the literature on the history of ethics and social morality. Its review of historical work on moral knowledge covers a wide range of thinkers including T.H Green, G.E Moore, Charles L. Stevenson, John Rawls, and Alasdair MacIntyre. But, most importantly, it concludes with a novel proposal for how we might reclaim moral knowledge that is inspired by the phenomenological approach of Knud Logstrup and Emmanuel Levinas. Edited and eventually completed by three of Willard’s former graduate students, this book marks the culmination of Willard’s project to find a secure basis in knowledge for the moral life.

Book Contributions to Asian studies

Download or read book Contributions to Asian studies written by Judith A. Nagata and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: