Moral Perception and Particularity - 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 Perception and Particularity write by Lawrence A. Blum. This book was released on 1994-01-28. Moral Perception and Particularity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of Laurence Blum's essays examines the moral import of emotion, motivation, judgement, perception, and group identifications.
Moral Perception
Moral Perception - 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 Perception write by Robert Audi. This book was released on 2013-02-24. Moral Perception available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. We can see a theft, hear a lie, and feel a stabbing. These are morally important perceptions. But are they also moral perceptions--distinctively moral responses? In this book, Robert Audi develops an original account of moral perceptions, shows how they figure in human experience, and argues that they provide moral knowledge. He offers a theory of perception as an informative representational relation to objects and events. He describes the experiential elements in perception, illustrates moral perception in relation to everyday observations, and explains how moral perception justifies moral judgments and contributes to objectivity in ethics. Moral perception does not occur in isolation. Intuition and emotion may facilitate it, influence it, and be elicited by it. Audi explores the nature and variety of intuitions and their relation to both moral perception and emotion, providing the broadest and most refined statement to date of his widely discussed intuitionist view in ethics. He also distinguishes several kinds of moral disagreement and assesses the challenge it poses for ethical objectivism. Philosophically argued but interdisciplinary in scope and interest, Moral Perception advances our understanding of central problems in ethics, moral psychology, epistemology, and the theory of the emotions.
Friendship, Altruism and Morality (Routledge Revivals)
Friendship, Altruism and Morality (Routledge Revivals) - 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 Friendship, Altruism and Morality (Routledge Revivals) write by Laurence A. Blum. This book was released on 2009-12-15. Friendship, Altruism and Morality (Routledge Revivals) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Friendship, Altruism, and Morality, originally published in 1980, gives an account of "altruistic emotions" (compassion, sympathy, concern) and friendship that brings out their moral value. Blum argues that moral theories centered on rationality, universal principle, obligation, and impersonality cannot capture this moral importance. This was one of the first books in contemporary moral philosophy to emphasize the moral significance of emotions, to deal with friendship as a moral phenomenon, and to challenge the rationalism of standard interpretations of Kant, although Blum’s "sentimentalism" owes more to Schopenhauer than to Hume. It was a forerunner to care ethics, and feminist ethics more generally; to virtue ethics; and to subsequent influential interpretations of Kant that attempted to room for altruistic emotion and friendship, and other forms of particularism and partialism. In addition, the work has been widely influential in religious studies, political theory, bioethics, and feminist ethics.
Perception in Aristotle’s Ethics
Perception in Aristotle’s Ethics - 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 Perception in Aristotle’s Ethics write by Eve Rabinoff. This book was released on 2018-02-15. Perception in Aristotle’s Ethics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Perception in Aristotle's Ethics seeks to demonstrate that living an ethical life requires a mode of perception that is best called ethical perception. Specifically, drawing primarily on Aristotle’s accounts of perception and ethics in De anima and Nicomachean Ethics, Eve Rabinoff argues that the faculty of perception (aisthesis), which is often thought to be an entirely physical phenomenon, is informed by intellect and has an ethical dimension insofar as it involves the perception of particulars in their ethical significance, as things that are good or bad in themselves and as occasions to act. Further, she contends, virtuous action requires this ethical perception, according to Aristotle, and ethical development consists in the achievement of the harmony of the intellectual and perceptual, rational and nonrational, parts of the soul. Rabinoff's project is philosophically motivated both by the details of Aristotle’s thought and more generally by an increasing philosophical awareness that the ethical agent is an embodied, situated individual, rather than primarily a disembodied, abstract rational will.
Caring
Caring - 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 Caring write by Nel Noddings. This book was released on 2013-09-14. Caring available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With numerous examples to supplement her rich theoretical discussion, Nel Noddings builds a compelling philosophical argument for an ethics based on natural caring, as in the care of a mother for her child. In Caring—now updated with a new preface and afterword reflecting on the ongoing relevance of the subject matter—the author provides a wide-ranging consideration of whether organizations, which operate at a remove from the caring relationship, can truly be called ethical. She discusses the extent to which we may truly care for plants, animals, or ideas. Finally, she proposes a realignment of education to encourage and reward not just rationality and trained intelligence, but also enhanced sensitivity in moral matters.
