Beyond Moral Judgment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond Moral Judgment write by Alice Crary. This book was released on 2009-09-30. Beyond Moral Judgment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What is moral thought and what kinds of demands does it impose? Alice Crary's book Beyond Moral Judgment claims that even the most perceptive contemporary answers to these questions offer no more than partial illumination, owing to an overly narrow focus on judgments that apply moral concepts (for example, "good," "wrong," "selfish," "courageous") and a corresponding failure to register that moral thinking includes more than such judgments. Drawing on what she describes as widely misinterpreted lines of thought in the writings of Wittgenstein and J. L. Austin, Crary argues that language is an inherently moral acquisition and that any stretch of thought, without regard to whether it uses moral concepts, may express the moral outlook encoded in a person's modes of speech. She challenges us to overcome our fixation on moral judgments and direct attention to responses that animate all our individual linguistic habits. Her argument incorporates insights from McDowell, Wiggins, Diamond, Cavell, and Murdoch and integrates a rich set of examples from feminist theory as well as from literature, including works by Jane Austen, E. M. Forster, Tolstoy, Henry James, and Theodor Fontane. The result is a powerful case for transforming our understanding of the difficulty of moral reflection and of the scope of our ethical concerns.
Regard for Reason in the Moral Mind
Regard for Reason in the Moral Mind - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Regard for Reason in the Moral Mind write by Joshua May. This book was released on 2018-05-04. Regard for Reason in the Moral Mind available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The burgeoning science of ethics has produced a trend toward pessimism. Ordinary moral thought and action, we're told, are profoundly influenced by arbitrary factors and ultimately driven by unreasoned feelings. This book counters the current orthodoxy on its own terms by carefully engaging with the empirical literature. The resulting view, optimistic rationalism, shows the pervasive role played by reason our moral minds, and ultimately defuses sweeping debunking arguments in ethics. The science does suggest that moral knowledge and virtue don't come easily. However, despite the heavy influence of automatic and unconscious processes that have been shaped by evolutionary pressures, we needn't reject ordinary moral psychology as fundamentally flawed or in need of serious repair. Reason can be corrupted in ethics just as in other domains, but a special pessimism about morality in particular is unwarranted. Moral judgment and motivation are fundamentally rational enterprises not beholden to the passions.
Sentimental Rules
Sentimental Rules - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sentimental Rules write by Shaun Nichols. This book was released on 2004-11-04. Sentimental Rules available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Shaun Nichols' theory is that emotions play a critical role in both the psychological and the cultural underpinnings of basic moral judgement, in that the norms prohibiting the harming of others are fundamentally associated with our emotional responses to those harms.
The Practice of Moral Judgment
The Practice of Moral Judgment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Practice of Moral Judgment write by Barbara Herman. This book was released on 1993. The Practice of Moral Judgment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Barbara Herman argues for a radical shift in the way we perceive Kant's ethics. She convincingly reinterprets the key texts, at once allowing Kant to mean what he says while showing that what Kant says makes good moral sense. She urges us to abandon the tradition that describes Kantian ethics as a deontology, a moral system of rules of duty. She finds the central idea of Kantian ethics not in duty but in practical rationality as a norm of unconditioned goodness. This book both clarifies Kant's own theory and adds programmatic vitality to modern moral philosophy.
Moral Development and Reality
Moral Development and Reality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Moral Development and Reality write by John C. Gibbs. This book was released on 2003-04-23. Moral Development and Reality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A supplementary textbook for a graduate or advanced undergraduate course dealing with moral psychology. It looks at implications of and problems with theories of moral development put forward by Lawrence Kohlberg and Martin L. Hoffman. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
