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Author: Stephen Engstrom Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521624978 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 328
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This major collection of essays offers the first serious challenge to the traditional view that ancient and modern ethics are fundamentally opposed. In doing so it has important implications for contemporary ethical thought, as well as providing a significant reassessment of the work of Aristotle, Kant and the Stoics. The contributors include internationally recognised interpreters of ancient and modern ethics.
Author: Stephen Engstrom Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521624978 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 328
Book Description
This major collection of essays offers the first serious challenge to the traditional view that ancient and modern ethics are fundamentally opposed. In doing so it has important implications for contemporary ethical thought, as well as providing a significant reassessment of the work of Aristotle, Kant and the Stoics. The contributors include internationally recognised interpreters of ancient and modern ethics.
Author: Joachim Aufderheide Publisher: Mind Association Occasional ISBN: 0198714017 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 256
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The notion of the highest good is central to both Aristotle's and Kant's ethical theories, despite the fact that their approaches to ethics are often thought to be diametrically opposed. A team of experts shed new light on the work of both major philosophers, and reveal the richness, complexity, and fruitfulness of the notion of the highest good.
Author: Paul Guyer Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521654210 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 456
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Guyer revises the traditional interpretation of Kant's philosophy and shows how Kant's coherent liberalism can guide us in current debates.
Author: Victoria S. Wike Publisher: State University of New York Press ISBN: 1438424035 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 220
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This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Kant's treatment of happiness in ethics. It considers the definition of happiness and the possible roles happiness may serve in ethics. It argues against critics who maintain that Kant's deontological ethic rejects happiness and against critics who assert that Kant's ethic is, in fact, consequential and concerned above all with ends such as happiness. By pointing to a system that organizes Kant's various claims about happiness, the book supports the view that happiness has positive roles to play in Kant's ethic.
Author: Jens Timmermann Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1139485326 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages :
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In his Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Immanuel Kant portrays the supreme moral principle as an unconditional imperative that applies to all of us because we freely choose to impose upon ourselves a law of pure practical reason. Morality is revealed to be a matter of autonomy. Today, this approach to ethical theory is as perplexing, controversial and inspiring as it was in 1785, when the Groundwork was first published. The essays in this volume, by international Kant scholars and moral philosophers, discuss Kant's philosophical development and his rejection of earlier moral theories, the role of happiness and inclination in the Groundwork, Kant's moral metaphysics and theory of value, and his attempt to justify the categorical imperative as a principle of freedom. They reflect the approach of several schools of interpretation and illustrate the lively diversity of Kantian ethics today.
Author: Samuel Kahn Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1498519628 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 280
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This book examines three issues: the principle of ought implies can (OIC); the principle of alternate possibilities (PAP); and Kant’s views on the duty to promote one’s own happiness. It argues that although Kant was wrong to deny such a duty, the part of his denial that rests on a conception of duty incorporating both OIC and PAP is sound.
Author: Robert F. Almeder Publisher: Prometheus Books ISBN: 1615926437 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 212
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What makes a right act right? Why should I be moral? What is human happiness and how do I attain it? These questions are the foundations of ethics and they form the backdrop for all discussions of the subject.In Human Happiness and Morality, noted philosopher Robert Almeder provides lucid introductory explanations of the major ethical theories and traditions, and looks at the answers emerging from the three basic questions. Divided into four parts, the book first details proposed answers to What makes a right act right? including a discussion of consequentialist and deontological theories. Rather than taking sides in the debate as most texts do, Almeder admits that we face daunting difficulties when trying to decide what makes an an act right or wrong. Trying to face these difficulties honestly gives intensity to ethical discussion.The second and third sections of the book ask whether or not one must be moral, and what is the nature of human happiness and how one attains it. Almeder imparts a clear understanding of what is needed for happiness and the place of traditional morality in that pursuit. In closing, the author details simple Stoic rules for happy living and shows how to live a good life despite the existence of unhappiness and failure in others.Robert Almeder (Atlanta, GA) is a professor of philosophy at Georgia State University, the coeditor (with Milton Snoeyenbos and James Humber) of Business Ethics, and the author of many scholarly works.Milton Snoeyenbos, Robert Almeder, and James Humber (Atlanta) are professors of philosophy at Georgia State University.
Author: Ana Marta González Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3030664686 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 111
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This book joins the contemporary recovery of Kant’s empirical works to highlight the relevance of his concept of culture for understanding the sources of various characteristic modern dilemmas, such as the tension between culture and happiness, the morally ambivalent nature of cultural progress, or the existing conflicts between a factual plurality of cultures and the historical forces pressing toward a universal civilization. The book will be of special interest for Kantian scholars, moral and political philosophers, as well as philosophers of culture.
Author: Stephen Engstrom
Author: Stephen Engstrom
Author: Joachim Aufderheide
Author: Paul Guyer
Author: Victoria S. Wike
Author: Jens Timmermann
Author: Samuel Kahn
Author: Jonny Thomson
Author: Robert F. Almeder
Author: Michael Cholbi
Author: Ana Marta González