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Book Virtue and Self knowledge

Download or read book Virtue and Self knowledge written by Jonathan A. Jacobs and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Virtue and Moral Self knowledge

Download or read book Virtue and Moral Self knowledge written by Roy Mathieu and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Self knowledge and Moral Virtue

Download or read book Self knowledge and Moral Virtue written by Kathleen A. Poorman Dougherty and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Moral Self

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  • Author : Alexander Knox White
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1923
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 246 pages

Download or read book The Moral Self written by Alexander Knox White and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Morality  Self knowledge  and Human Suffering

Download or read book Morality Self knowledge and Human Suffering written by Josep E. Corbí and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this wholly original study, Josep Corbi asks how one should relate to a certain kind of human suffering, namely, the harm that people cause one another. Relying upon real life examples of human suffering--including torture, genocide, and warfare--as opposed to thought experiments, Corbi proposes a novel approach to self-knowledge that runs counter to standard Kantian approaches to morality.

Book The Virtue of Aristotle s Ethics

Download or read book The Virtue of Aristotle s Ethics written by Paula Gottlieb and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-27 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text looks at Aristotle's claims, particularly the much-maligned doctrine of the mean.

Book Cultivating Virtue

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  • Author : Nancy E. Snow
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN : 0199967423
  • Pages : 358 pages

Download or read book Cultivating Virtue written by Nancy E. Snow and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though virtue ethics is enjoying a resurgence, the topic of virtue cultivation has been largely neglected by philosophers. This book features essays by philosophers, theologians, and psychologists at the forefront of research into virtue.--Publisher's description.

Book The Moral Self

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  • Author : Pauline Chazan
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2002-11-01
  • ISBN : 1134702981
  • Pages : 249 pages

Download or read book The Moral Self written by Pauline Chazan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Moral Self addresses the question of how morality enters into our lives. Pauline Chazan draws upon psychology, r ral philosophy and literary interpretation to rebut the view that morality's role is to limit desire and control self-love. Perserving the ancients' connection between what is good for the self and what is morally good, Chazan argues that a certain kind of care for the self is central to moral agency. Her intriguing argument begins with a critical examination of the views of Hume, Rousseau and Hegel. The constructive part of the book takes a more unusual turn by synthesising the work on the analyst Heinz Kohut and Aristotle into Chazan's own positive account, which is then illustrated by the use of Russian literature.

Book Moral Knowledge

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  • Author : Sarah McGrath
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2019-12-10
  • ISBN : 0192527967
  • Pages : 229 pages

Download or read book Moral Knowledge written by Sarah McGrath and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compared to other kinds of knowledge, how fragile is our knowledge of morality? Does knowledge of the difference between right and wrong fundamentally differ from knowledge of other kinds, in that it cannot be forgotten? What makes reliable evidence in fundamental moral convictions? And what are the associated problems of using testimony as a source of moral knowledge? Sarah McGrath provides novel answers to these questions and many others, as she investigates the possibilities, sources, and characteristic vulnerabilities of moral knowledge. She also considers whether there is anything wrong with simply outsourcing moral questions to a moral expert and evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of the method of equilibrium as an account of how we make up our mind about moral questions. Ultimately, McGrath concludes that moral knowledge can be acquired in any of the ways in which we acquire ordinary empirical knowledge. Our efforts to acquire and preserve such knowledge, she argues, are subject to frustration in all of the same ways that our efforts to acquire and preserve ordinary empirical knowledge are.

Book Virtue   s Reasons

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  • Author : Noell Birondo
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2017-02-17
  • ISBN : 131531424X
  • Pages : 218 pages

Download or read book Virtue s Reasons written by Noell Birondo and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection sheds light on precisely how virtues and reasons are related to each other and what can be learned by exploring this relationship. The first section analyzes how the virtues may be related to, or linked with, normative reasons in ways that improve our understanding of what constitutes virtuous character and ethical agency. The second section explores the reasons moral agents have for cultivating the virtues of character and how the virtues impact moral responsiveness or development. The final section examines how reasons can be employed in understanding the nature of virtue, and how specific virtues, like modesty and practical wisdom, interact with reasons.

Book Intellectual Virtue

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  • Author : Michael Raymond DePaul
  • Publisher : Clarendon Press
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 0199219125
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Intellectual Virtue written by Michael Raymond DePaul and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Virtue ethics has attracted a lot of attention and there has been considerable interest in virtue epistemology as an alternative to traditional approaches in that field. This book fills a gap in the literature for a text that brings virtue epistemologists and virtue ethicists together."-- Back cover.

Book Virtue Is Knowledge

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  • Author : Lorraine Smith Pangle
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2014-05-23
  • ISBN : 022613668X
  • Pages : 287 pages

Download or read book Virtue Is Knowledge written by Lorraine Smith Pangle and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-05-23 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relation between virtue and knowledge is at the heart of the Socratic view of human excellence, but it also points to a central puzzle of the Platonic dialogues: Can Socrates be serious in his claims that human excellence is constituted by one virtue, that vice is merely the result of ignorance, and that the correct response to crime is therefore not punishment but education? Or are these assertions mere rhetorical ploys by a notoriously complex thinker? Lorraine Smith Pangle traces the argument for the primacy of virtue and the power of knowledge throughout the five dialogues that feature them most prominently—the Apology, Gorgias, Protagoras, Meno, and Laws—and reveals the truth at the core of these seemingly strange claims. She argues that Socrates was more aware of the complex causes of human action and of the power of irrational passions than a cursory reading might suggest. Pangle’s perceptive analyses reveal that many of Socrates’s teachings in fact explore the factors that make it difficult for humans to be the rational creatures that he at first seems to claim. Also critical to Pangle’s reading is her emphasis on the political dimensions of the dialogues. Underlying many of the paradoxes, she shows, is a distinction between philosophic and civic virtue that is critical to understanding them. Ultimately, Pangle offers a radically unconventional way of reading Socrates’s views of human excellence: Virtue is not knowledge in any ordinary sense, but true virtue is nothing other than wisdom.

Book Moral and Intellectual Virtues in Western and Chinese Philosophy

Download or read book Moral and Intellectual Virtues in Western and Chinese Philosophy written by Chienkuo Mi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to bring together Western and Chinese perspectives on both moral and intellectual virtues. Editors Chienkuo Mi, Michael Slote, and Ernest Sosa have assembled some of the world’s leading epistemologists and ethicists—located in the U.S., Europe, and Asia—to explore in a global context what they are calling, "the virtue turn." The 15 chapters have never been published previously and by covering topics that bridge epistemology and moral philosophy suggest a widespread philosophical turn away from Kantian and Utilitarian issues and towards character- and agent-based concerns. A goal of this volume is to show students and researchers alike that the (re-)turn toward virtue underway in the Western tradition is being followed by a similar (re-)turn toward virtue in Chinese philosophy.

Book Moral and Intellectual Virtues in Western and Chinese Philosophy

Download or read book Moral and Intellectual Virtues in Western and Chinese Philosophy written by Chienkuo Mi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to bring together Western and Chinese perspectives on both moral and intellectual virtues. Editors Chienkuo Mi, Michael Slote, and Ernest Sosa have assembled some of the world’s leading epistemologists and ethicists—located in the U.S., Europe, and Asia—to explore in a global context what they are calling, "the virtue turn." The 15 chapters have never been published previously and by covering topics that bridge epistemology and moral philosophy suggest a widespread philosophical turn away from Kantian and Utilitarian issues and towards character- and agent-based concerns. A goal of this volume is to show students and researchers alike that the (re-)turn toward virtue underway in the Western tradition is being followed by a similar (re-)turn toward virtue in Chinese philosophy.

Book Socrates and Self Knowledge

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  • Author : Christopher Moore
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2015-10-09
  • ISBN : 1107123305
  • Pages : 295 pages

Download or read book Socrates and Self Knowledge written by Christopher Moore and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-09 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first systematic study of Socrates' interest in selfhood, examining ancient philosophical ideas of what constitutes the self.

Book Self knowledge Essential to Virtue and Happiness

Download or read book Self knowledge Essential to Virtue and Happiness written by and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Virtue Ethics and Moral Knowledge

Download or read book Virtue Ethics and Moral Knowledge written by R. Scott Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a time of moral confusion: many believe there are no overarching moral norms, and we have lost an accepted body of moral knowledge. Alasdair MacIntyre addresses this problem in his much-heralded restatement of Aristotelian and Thomistic virtue ethics; Stanley Hauerwas does so through his highly influential work in Christian ethics. Both recast virtue ethics in light of their interpretations of the later Wittgenstein's views of language. This book systematically assesses the underlying presuppositions of MacIntyre and Hauerwas, finding that their attempts to secure moral knowledge and restate virtue ethics, both philosophical and theological, fail. Scott Smith proposes alternative indications as to how we can secure moral knowledge, and how we should proceed in virtue ethics.