Motive and Rightness

Motive and Rightness
Author: Steven Sverdlik
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2011-01-27
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780199594948

This is the first book to answer the question: Does the motive of an action ever make a difference to whether that action is morally right or wrong? Sverdlik's answer is yes. He analyses the nature of motives and their relation to normative judgements and intentions, and argues that consequentialism gives the best account of these matters.

Morals from Motives

Morals from Motives
Author: Michael Slote
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2001-02-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0190207930

Morals from Motives develops a virtue ethics inspired more by Hume and Hutcheson's moral sentimentalism than by recently-influential Aristotelianism. It argues that a reconfigured and expanded "morality of caring" can offer a general account of right and wrong action as well as social justice. Expanding the frontiers of ethics, it goes on to show how a motive-based "pure" virtue theory can also help us to understand the nature of human well-being and practical reason.

Divine Motivation Theory

Divine Motivation Theory
Author: Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 438
Release: 2004-08-02
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521535762

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The Emergence of Autonomy in Kant's Moral Philosophy

The Emergence of Autonomy in Kant's Moral Philosophy
Author: Stefano Bacin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2019
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1107182859

A thorough study of why Kant developed the concept of autonomy, one of his central legacies for contemporary moral thought.

Creating the Kingdom of Ends

Creating the Kingdom of Ends
Author: Christine M. Korsgaard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 466
Release: 1996-07-28
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521499620

Christine Korsgaard has become one of the leading interpreters of Kant's moral philosophy. She is identified with a small group of philosophers who are intent on producing a version of Kant's moral philosophy that is at once sensitive to its historical roots while revealing its particular relevance to contemporary problems. She rejects the traditional picture of Kant's ethics as a cold vision of the moral life which emphasises duty at the expense of love and value. Rather, Kant's work is seen as providing a resource for addressing not only the metaphysics of morals, but also for tackling practical questions about personal relations, politics, and everyday human interaction. This collection contains some of the finest current work on Kant's ethics and will command the attention of all those involved in teaching and studying moral theory.

Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
Author: Paul Guyer
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages: 415
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0585080720

Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals is one of the most important works in modern moral philosophy. This collection of essays, the first of its kind in nearly thirty years, introduces the reader to some of the most important studies of the book from the past two decades, arranged in the form of a collective commentary.