Cicero: On Moral Ends
Author | : Marcus Tullius Cicero |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2001-08-16 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521669016 |
An accessible 2001 translation of Cicero's important work on ethics.
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Author | : Marcus Tullius Cicero |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2001-08-16 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521669016 |
An accessible 2001 translation of Cicero's important work on ethics.
Author | : Quintus Curtius |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2018-11-02 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780578409672 |
This new translation of Cicero's philosophical classic "On Moral Ends" is unlike any other previous translation. Illustrated with original photographs and entirely annotated, it brings this great work to a new generation of readers.
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.
Author | : John E. Atwell |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9400943458 |
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) stands among the greatest thinkers of the Western world. There is hardly an area of thought, at least of philosophical thought, to which he did not make significant and lasting contributions. Particularly noteworthy are his writings on the foundations and limits of human knowledge, the bidimensional nature of perceptual or "natural" objects (including human beings), the basic principles and ends of morality, the character of a just society and of a world at peace, the movement and direction of human history, the nature of beauty, the end or purpose of all creation, the proper education of young people, the true conception of religion, and on and on. Though Kant was a life-long resident of Konigsberg, Prussia - child, student, tutor, and then professor of philosophy (and other subjects) - his thought ranged over nearly all the world and even beyond. Reports reveal that he (a bachelor) was an amiable man, highly respected by his students and colleagues, and even loved by his several close friends. He was apparently a man of integrity, both in his personal relations and in his pursuit of knowledge and truth. Despite his somewhat pessimistic attitude toward the moral progress of mankind - judging from past history and contemporary events - he never wavered from a deep-seated faith in the goodness of the human heart, in man's "splendid disposition toward the good.
Author | : Richard L. Velkley |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2014-02-14 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 022615758X |
In Freedom and the End of Reason, Richard L. Velkley offers an influential interpretation of the central issue of Kant’s philosophy and an evaluation of its position within modern philosophy’s larger history. He persuasively argues that the whole of Kantianism—not merely the Second Critique—focuses on a “critique of practical reason” and is a response to a problem that Kant saw as intrinsic to reason itself: the teleological problem of its goodness. Reconstructing the influence of Rousseau on Kant’s thought, Velkley demonstrates that the relationship between speculative philosophy and practical philosophy in Kant is far more intimate than generally has been perceived. By stressing a Rousseau-inspired notion of reason as a provider of practical ends, he is able to offer an unusually complete account of Kant’s idea of moral culture.
Author | : Alasdair MacIntyre |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2013-10-21 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1623569818 |
Highly controversial when it was first published in 1981, Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue has since established itself as a landmark work in contemporary moral philosophy. In this book, MacIntyre sought to address a crisis in moral language that he traced back to a European Enlightenment that had made the formulation of moral principles increasingly difficult. In the search for a way out of this impasse, MacIntyre returns to an earlier strand of ethical thinking, that of Aristotle, who emphasised the importance of 'virtue' to the ethical life. More than thirty years after its original publication, After Virtue remains a work that is impossible to ignore for anyone interested in our understanding of ethics and morality today.
Author | : Julia Markovits |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2014-03 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199567174 |
Develops and defends a version of a desire-based, internalist account of what normative reasons are, and counters it with an internalist defense of universal moral reason built on Kant's formula of humanity.
Author | : Aristotle |
Publisher | : SDE Classics |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2019-11-05 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9781951570279 |
Author | : Stephen R. Brown |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2008-04-10 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1441146474 |
What make someone a good human being? Is there an objective answer to this question, an answer that can be given in naturalistic terms? For ages philosophers have attempted to develop some sort of naturalistic ethics. Against ethical naturalism, however, notable philosophers have contended that such projects are impossible, due to the existence of some sort of 'gap' between facts and values. Others have suggested that teleology, upon which many forms of ethical naturalism depend, is an outdated metaphysical concept. This book argues that a good human being is one who has those traits the possession of which enables someone to achieve those ends natural to beings like us. Thus, the answer to the question of what makes a good human being is given in terms both objective and naturalistic. The author shows that neither 'is-ought' gaps, nor objections concerning teleology pose insurmountable problems for naturalistic virtue ethics. This work is a much needed contribution to the ongoing debate about ethical theory and ethical virtue.
Author | : Romanus Cessario |
Publisher | : Catholic University of America Press + ORM |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2010-03-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0813220378 |
The comprehensive introduction to Catholic moral theology by the leading theologian and author of The Moral Virtues and Theological Ethics. In Introduction to Moral Theology, Father Romanus Cessario, O.P. presents and expounds on the basic and central elements of Catholic moral theology written in the light of Veritatis splendor. Since its publication in 2001, this first book in the Catholic Moral Thought series has been widely recognized as an authoritative resource on such topics as moral theology and the good of the human person created in God’s image; natural law; principles of human action; determination of the moral good through objects, ends, and circumstances; and the virtues, gifts of the Holy Spirit, and the Beatitudes. The Catholic Moral Thought series is designed to provide students with a comprehensive presentation of both the principles of Christian conduct and the specific teachings and precepts for fulfilling the requirements of the Christian life. Soundly based in the teaching of the Church, the volumes set out the basic principles of Catholic moral thought and the application of those principles within areas of ethical concern that are of paramount importance today.