Good and Evil - 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 Good and Evil write by Richard Taylor. This book was released on 2000. Good and Evil available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The discussion of good and evil must not be confined to the sterile lecture halls of academics but related instead to ordinary human feelings, needs, and desires, says noted philosopher Richard Taylor. Efforts to understand morality by exploring human reason will always fail because we are creatures of desire as well. All morality arises from our intense and inescapable longing. The distinction between good and evil is always clouded by rationalists who convert the real problems of ethics into complex philosophical puzzles. In the first part of Good and Evil, Taylor looks for a more meaningful conception by reexamining and rejecting the whole rationalistic tradition that dominates philosophical ethics. The second part provides an empirical explanation of good and evil, noting that one does not have to look too far to find prime examples of the failure of fixed moral rules. Including important commentary on Joseph Fletcher's groundbreaking situation ethics, and Aristotle's virtues (e.g., magnanimity and pride), Taylor rounds out the book by developing a philosophy of aspiration--personal worth as an ethical ideal--to replace the morality of duty. He offers a modified form of situation ethics to fit the contemporary problems we face.
Good and Evil: a New Direction
Good and Evil: a New Direction - 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 Good and Evil: a New Direction write by Richard Taylor. This book was released on 1970. Good and Evil: a New Direction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Good and Evil: a New Direction
Good and Evil: a New Direction - 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 Good and Evil: a New Direction write by Richard Taylor. This book was released on 1970. Good and Evil: a New Direction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A New Direction
A New Direction - 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 A New Direction write by Brad Bohlen. This book was released on 2021-11-23. A New Direction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When a few elves are taken prisoner by orcs from the evil city of Bellusa, Redhawk, who's already on thin ice, is expelled from the elves for his indignation toward the complacent king. Waylaid by his own conscience, Redhawk must use all that he's learned if he wants to save the elven prisoners from a morbid fate. However, being a strong mind mage just might have a few advantages… Venturing toward the human city of Sartae, where he's hoping to find what he needs to return home, Redhawk makes a few "uncommon" companions. As the small band of odd-fellows face the many challenges that lay ahead, Redhawk starts to realize that the good people of Attaireo just might be in need of some help themselves. Sometimes, the best course of action isn't always the one you were striving for.
Evil in Modern Thought
Evil in Modern Thought - 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 Evil in Modern Thought write by Susan Neiman. This book was released on 2015-08-25. Evil in Modern Thought available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Whether expressed in theological or secular terms, evil poses a problem about the world's intelligibility. It confronts philosophy with fundamental questions: Can there be meaning in a world where innocents suffer? Can belief in divine power or human progress survive a cataloging of evil? Is evil profound or banal? Neiman argues that these questions impelled modern philosophy. Traditional philosophers from Leibniz to Hegel sought to defend the Creator of a world containing evil. Inevitably, their efforts--combined with those of more literary figures like Pope, Voltaire, and the Marquis de Sade--eroded belief in God's benevolence, power, and relevance, until Nietzsche claimed He had been murdered. They also yielded the distinction between natural and moral evil that we now take for granted. Neiman turns to consider philosophy's response to the Holocaust as a final moral evil, concluding that two basic stances run through modern thought. One, from Rousseau to Arendt, insists that morality demands we make evil intelligible. The other, from Voltaire to Adorno, insists that morality demands that we don't.
