Author: William Leonard CourtneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Constructive Ethics, a Review of Modern Moral Philosophy in Its Three Stages of Interpretation, Criticism, and Reconstruction
Author: William Leonard CourtneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Constructive Ethics, a Review of Modern Moral Philosophy
Author: William Leonard CourtneyPublisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9780530140483
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
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Constructive Ethics
Author: W. L. CourtneyPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330087275
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
Excerpt from Constructive Ethics: A Review of Modern Moral Philosophy in Its Three Stages of Interpretation, Criticism, and Reconstruction Perhaps an apology is needed, not indeed for the appearance of a new book on Moral Philosophy - for that I hope is sufficiently justified by the importance of the subject, - but for the title which I have ventured to assume for it. The title 'Constructive Ethics,' would indeed with difficulty be justified, if the single volume now offered to the public were all that the author had in mind. In reality, the present book is intended to be a first volume, of which a second and fuller volume will be the sequel. It is intended as an Introduction to a systematic effort to work out a System of Ethics, which some time in the future I hope to be able to accomplish. It was natural and necessary to show, in the first place, that the history of Moral Philosophy itself invites a reconstruction on the lines of that particular theory of ethical data which I have called indifferently Rationalism or Idealism. 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.
Constructive Ethics
Author: William Leonard CourtneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Constructive Ethics
Author: W. L. CourtneyPublisher:
ISBN: 9783348019040
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Constructive Ethics
Author: William Leonard CourtneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Constructive Ethics, a Review of Modern Moral Philosophy in Its Three Stages of Interpretation, Criticism, and Reconstruction
Author: William Leonard CourtneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Modern Moral Philosophy
Author: W.D. HudsonPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
A completely revised and updated second edition of Modern Moral Philosophy , first published in 1970. During the twentieth-century many philosophers of the analytical tradition have debated the meaning of moral judgements. This book analyzes the principle moves and countermoves in that debate. To the first five chapters of the original edition Dr Hudson has added three new chapters on The Derivation of Ought from Is , Further Forms of Descriptivism and Anti-Utilitarianism and the Two-level Theory , taking into account the recent work of Gewirth, Geach, Philippa Foot, Hampshire, Williams, MacIntyre, Hare and other contemporary philosophers.
Ethics after Anscombe
Author: D.J. RichterPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401714789
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
How, if at all, can we do moral philosophy in the light of the radical critique made by Elizabeth Anscombe in "Modem Moral Philosophy"? Among the principal theses of this essay is that ethical thinking (that of philosophers and others) suffers from a widespread appeal to incoherent uses of terms such as 'obligation,' 'ought,' 'right' and 'wrong. ' In this book I first explain and evaluate her thesis and the argument for it, and I then confront the challenge it poses: what ways are there of doing moral philosophy that avoid the kind of incoherence to which she has drawn our attention? The best way to show how it is possible for us to think about ethics is to demonstrate how to do so, using actual cases. This book therefore combines the critical study of central theoretical issues about ethics, in the first half, with concrete examination of serious practical issues, in the second. Following Dostoyevsky's Ivan Karamazov, it is often said that if God does not exist then everything is permitted. This is not literally the case, since God cannot permit anything if He does not exist, and those of us who do exist do not permit everything, or at least our parents, employers, and governments do not. It is true, though, that if God does not exist then nothing is forbidden in the traditional sense of 'forbidden'.
The Contradictions of Modern Moral Philosophy
Author: Dr Paul JohnstonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134619111
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The Contradictions of Modern Moral Philosophy is a highly original and radical critique of contemporary moral theory. Paul Johnston demonstrates that much recent moral philosophy is confused about the fundamental issue of whether there are correct moral judgements. He shows that the standard modern approaches to ethics cannot justify - or even make much sense of - traditional moral beliefs. Applied rigorously, these approaches suggest that we should reject ethics as a set of outdated and misguided claims. Rather than facing up to this conclusion, most recent moral philosophy consists of attempts to find some ways of preserving moral beliefs. This places a contradiction at the heart of moral philosophy. As a resilt it is often impossible to tell whether a contemporary philosopher ultimately rejects or endorses the idea of objective right and wrong. On the basis of a Wittgenstein approach Paul Johnston puts forward an alternative account of ethics that avoids this contradiction and recognises that the central issues of ethics cannot be resolved by conceptual analysis. He then uses this account to highlight the contradictions of important contemporary moral theorists such as Bernard Williams, Alasdair MacIntyre, Thomas Nagel and Charles Taylor.