Morality and Rational Self-interest - 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 Morality and Rational Self-interest write by David P. Gauthier. This book was released on 1970. Morality and Rational Self-interest available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reason, egoism, and utilitarianism, by H. Sidgwick.--Is egoism reasonable? By G.E. Moore.--Ultimate principles and ethical egoism, by B. Medlin.--In defense of egoism, by J. Kalin.--Virtuous affections and self-love, by F. Hutcheson.--Our obligation to virtue, by D. Hume.--Duty and interest, by H.A. Prichard.--The natural condition of mankind and the laws of nature, by T. Hobbes.--Why should we be moral? By K. Baier.--Morality and advantage, by D.P. Gauthier.--Bibliographical essay (p. 181-184).
Sacrifice Regained
Sacrifice Regained - 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 Sacrifice Regained write by Roger Crisp. This book was released on 2019-08-21. Sacrifice Regained available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Does being virtuous make you happy? In this book, Roger Crisp examines the answers to this ancient question provided by the so-called 'British Moralists', from Thomas Hobbes, around 1650, for the next two hundred years, until Jeremy Bentham. This involves elucidating their views on happiness (self-interest, or well-being) and on virtue (or morality), in order to bring out the relation of each to the other. Themes ran through many of these writers: psychological egoism, evaluative hedonism, and - after Hobbes - the acceptance of self-standing moral reasons. But there are exceptions, and even those taking the standard views adopt them for very different reasons and express them in various ways. As the ancients tended to believe that virtue and happiness largely coincide, so these modern authors are inclined to accept posthumous reward and punishment. Both positions sit uneasily with the common-sense idea that a person can truly sacrifice their own good for the sake of morality or for others. Roger Crisp shows that David Hume - a hedonist whose ethics made no appeal to the afterlife - was the first major British moralist to allow for, indeed to recommend, such self-sacrifice. Morality and well-being of course remain central to modern ethics, and Crisp demonstrates how much there is to learn from this remarkable group of philosophers.
Morality and Self-Interest
Morality and Self-Interest - 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 Morality and Self-Interest write by Paul Bloomfield. This book was released on 2008. Morality and Self-Interest available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The relationship between morality and self-interest is a perennial one in philosophy. For Plato, Hobbes, Kant, Aristotle, Hume, Machiavelli, and Nietzsche, it lay at the heart of moral theory. This text introduces the topic and looks at its place in philosophical history.
The Virtue of Selfishness
The Virtue of Selfishness - 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 Virtue of Selfishness write by Ayn Rand. This book was released on 1964-11-01. The Virtue of Selfishness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A collection of essays that sets forth the moral principles of Objectivism, Ayn Rand's controversial, groundbreaking philosophy. Since their initial publication, Rand's fictional works—Anthem, The Fountainhead, and Atlas Shrugged—have had a major impact on the intellectual scene. The underlying theme of her famous novels is her philosophy, a new morality—the ethics of rational self-interest—that offers a robust challenge to altruist-collectivist thought. Known as Objectivism, her divisive philosophy holds human life—the life proper to a rational being—as the standard of moral values and regards altruism as incompatible with man's nature. In this series of essays, Rand asks why man needs morality in the first place, and arrives at an answer that redefines a new code of ethics based on the virtue of selfishness. More Than 1 Million Copies Sold!
Self-Interest: Volume 14, Part 1
Self-Interest: Volume 14, Part 1 - 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 Self-Interest: Volume 14, Part 1 write by Ellen Frankel Paul. This book was released on 1997-05-28. Self-Interest: Volume 14, Part 1 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. '[T]he good man should be a lover of self.' Aristotle wrote. 'For he will both himself profit by doing noble acts, and will benefit his fellows ... '. Yet in much of contemporary moral philosophy, concern for one's own interests is considered a non-moral issue, while concern for the interests of others is paradigmatically moral. Indeed, a central issue in ethical theory involves the proper balance to be struck between prudence and morality, between the pursuit of one's own good and the pursuit of the good of others. When deliberating over what action to take, should one weigh one's own interests more heavily than those of others? Or is it possible to accommodate both self-interest and regard for others, to show that we have self-regarding reasons for helping others? The twelve essays in this volume - written from a range of perspectives - address these questions and examine related issues.
