Revisions, Changing Perspectives in Moral 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 Revisions, Changing Perspectives in Moral Philosophy write by Stanley Hauerwas. This book was released on 1983. Revisions, Changing Perspectives in Moral Philosophy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Revisions series marks an attempt to recover what is viable in the traditions of which we ought to be the heirs without ignoring what it was that made those traditions vulnerable to modernity.
Modernity's Wager
Modernity's Wager - 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 Modernity's Wager write by Adam B. Seligman. This book was released on 2009-02-09. Modernity's Wager available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Adam Seligman, one of our most important social thinkers, continues the incisive critique of modernity he began in his previously acclaimed The Idea of Civil Society and The Problem of Trust. In this provocative new work of social philosophy, Seligman evaluates modernity's wager, namely, the gambit to liberate the modern individual from external social and religious norms by supplanting them with the rational self as its own moral authority. Yet far from ensuring the freedom of the individual, Seligman argues, "the fundamentalist doctrine of enlightened reason has called into being its own nemesis" in the forms of ethnic, racial, and identity politics. Seligman counters that the modern human must recover a notion of authority that is essentially transcendent, but which extends tolerance to those of other--or no--faiths. Through its denial of an authority rooted in an experience of transcendence, modernity fails to account for individual and collective moral action. First, deprived of a sacred source of the self, depictions of moral action are reduced to motives of self interest. Second, dismissing the sacred leaves the resurgence of religious movements unexplained. In this rigorous and imaginative study, Seligman seeks to discover a durable source of moral authority in a liberalized world. His study of shame, pride, collective guilt, and collective responsibility demonstrates the mutual relationship between individual responsibility and communal authority. Furthermore, Seligman restores the indispensable role of religious traditions--as well as the features of those traditions that enhance, rather than denigrate, tolerance. Sociologists, political theorists, moral philosophers, and intellectual historians will find Seligman's thesis enlightening, as will anyone concerned with the ethical and religious foundations of a tolerant society.
Tradition, Rationality, and Virtue
Tradition, Rationality, and Virtue - 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 Tradition, Rationality, and Virtue write by Thomas D. D'Andrea. This book was released on 2017-09-29. Tradition, Rationality, and Virtue available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tradition, Rationality, and Virtue provides the first comprehensive and detailed treatment of the work of Alasdair MacIntyre. In this book Thomas D'Andrea presents an accessible critical study of the full range of MacIntyre's thought across ethical theory, psychoanalytic theory, social and political philosophy, Marxist theory, and the philosophy of religion. Moving from the roots of MacIntyre's thought in ethical inquiry, this book examines MacIntyre's treatment of Marx, Christianity, and the nature of human action and discusses in depth the development and applications of MacIntyre's After Virtue project. The book culminates in an examination of major internal and external criticisms of MacIntyre's work and a consideration of its future directions.
A Bibliographic Guide to the Comparative Study of Ethics
A Bibliographic Guide to the Comparative Study of 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 A Bibliographic Guide to the Comparative Study of Ethics write by John Braisted Carman. This book was released on 1991-04-26. A Bibliographic Guide to the Comparative Study of Ethics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This bibliography is the culmination of four years' work by a team of noted scholars; its annotated entries are organised by religious tradition and cover each tradition's central concepts, offering a judicious selection of primary and secondary works as well as recommendations of cross-cultural topics to be explored. Specialists in the history and literature of religions and comparative religion will find this bibliography a valuable research tool.
Picturing the Human : The Moral Thought of Iris Murdoch
Picturing the Human : The Moral Thought of Iris Murdoch - 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 Picturing the Human : The Moral Thought of Iris Murdoch write by Maria Antonaccio Assistant Professor of Religion Bucknell University. This book was released on 2000-05-31. Picturing the Human : The Moral Thought of Iris Murdoch available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Iris Murdoch has long been known as one of the most deeply insightful and morally passionate novelists of our time. This attention has often eclipsed Murdoch's sophisticated and influential work as a philosopher, which has had a wide-ranging impact on thinkers in moral philosophy as well as religious ethics and political theory. Yet it has never been the subject of a book-length study in its own right. Picturing the Human seeks to fill this gap. In this groundbreaking book, author Maria Antonaccio presents the first systematic and comprehensive treatment of Murdoch's moral philosophy. Unlike literary critical studies of her novels, it offers a general philosophical framework for assessing Murdoch's thought as a whole. Antonaccio also suggests a new interpretive method for reading Murdoch's philosophy and outlines the significance of her thought in the context of current debates in ethics. This vital study will appeal to those interested in moral philosophy, religious ethics, and literary criticism, and grants those who have long loved Murdoch's novels a closer look at her remarkable philosophy.
