Morality by Degrees - 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 by Degrees write by Alastair Norcross. This book was released on 2020-03-25. Morality by Degrees available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Morality by Degrees, Alastair Norcross articulates and defends a radical new approach to ethical theory. Consequentialist theories of the right connect the rightness and wrongness (and related notions) of actions with the intrinsic goodness and badness of states of affairs consequential on those actions. The most popular such theory is maximization, which is said to demand of agents that they maximize the good, that they do the best they can, at all times. Thus it may seem that consequentialist theories are overly demanding, and, relatedly, that they cannot accommodate the phenomenon of going above and beyond the demands of duty. However, a clear understanding of consequentialism leaves no room for a theory of the right, at least not at the fundamental level of the theory. A consequentialist theory, such as utilitarianism, is a theory of how to rank outcomes, and derivatively actions, which provides reasons for choosing some actions over others. It is thus a purely scalar theory, with no demands that certain actions be performed, and no fundamental classification of actions as right or wrong. However, such notions may have pragmatic benefits at the level of application, since many people find it easier to guide their conduct by simple commands, rather than to think in terms of reasons of varying strength to do one thing rather than another. A contextualist semantics for various terms, such as "right", "permissible", "harm", when combined with the scalar approach to consequentialism, allows for the expression of truth-apt propositions with sentences containing such terms.
A Degree in a Book: Philosophy
A Degree in a Book: Philosophy - 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 Degree in a Book: Philosophy write by Peter Gibson. This book was released on 2018-12-12. A Degree in a Book: Philosophy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A perfect introduction for students and laypeople alike, A Degree in a Book: Philosophy provides you with all the concepts you need to understand the fundamental issues. Filled with helpful diagrams, suggestions for further reading, and easily digestible features on the history of philosophy, this book makes learning the subject easier than ever. Including ideas from Aristotle and Zeno to Descartes and Wittgenstein, it covers the whole range of western thought. By the time you finish reading this book, you will be able to answer questions like: • What is truth? • What can I really know? • How can I live a moral life? • Do I have free will?
The Limits of Moral Authority
The Limits of Moral Authority - 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 Limits of Moral Authority write by Dale Dorsey. This book was released on 2016-04-21. The Limits of Moral Authority available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dale Dorsey considers one of the most fundamental questions in philosophical ethics: to what extent do the demands of morality have normative authority over us and our lives? Must we conform to moral requirements? Most who have addressed this question have treated the normative significance of morality as simply a fact to be explained. But Dorsey argues that this traditional assumption is misguided. According to Dorsey, not only are we not required to conform to moral demands, conforming to morality's demands will not always even be normatively permissible---moral behavior can be (quite literally) wrong. This view is significant not only for understanding the content and force of the moral point of view, but also for understanding the basic elements of how one ought to live.
Moral Education
Moral Education - 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 Education write by Émile Durkheim. This book was released on 2011-11-24. Moral Education available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Eighteen lectures by an influential theorist who discusses school as an appropriate setting for moral education. A pioneer of sociology, Durkheim explains the first element in fostering morality as the development of a sense of discipline, followed by a willingness to behave in accordance with collective interest, and a sense of autonomy.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
The Theory of Moral Sentiments - 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 Theory of Moral Sentiments write by Adam Smith (économiste). This book was released on 1812. The Theory of Moral Sentiments available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
