Rationality, Virtue, and Liberation

Rationality, Virtue, and Liberation
Author: Stephen Petro
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2013-11-19
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3319022857

This book explores the overlooked but vital theoretical relationships between R. M. Hare, Alan Gewirth, and Jürgen Habermas. The author claims their accounts of value, while failing to address classic virtue-theoretical critiques, bear the seeds of a resolution to the ultimate question “What is most valuable?” These dialectical approaches, as claimed, justify a reinterpretation of value and value judgment according to the Carnapian conception of an empirical-linguistic framework or grammar. Through a further synthesis with the work of Philippa Foot and Thomas Magnell, the author shows that “value” would be literally meaningless without four fundamental phenomena which constitute such a framework: Logical Judgment, Conceptual Synthesis, Conceptual Abstraction, and Freedom. As part of the 'grammar of goodness,' the excellence of these phenomena, in a highly concrete way, constitute the essence of the greatest good, as this book explains.

After Virtue

After Virtue
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.

Commonsense Consequentialism

Commonsense Consequentialism
Author: Douglas W. Portmore
Publisher: OUP USA
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2011-11-02
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199794537

This is a book about morality, rationality, and the interconnections between the two. In it, Portmore defends a version of consequentialism that both comports with our commonsense moral intuitions and shares with consequentialist theories the same compelling teleological conception of practical reasons.

From Rationality to Liberation

From Rationality to Liberation
Author: J. A. Sabrosky
Publisher: Praeger
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1979
Genre: History
ISBN:

Contents include: Adagio, from Sonata in C Major, Op. 1, No. 2 (Francesco Barsanti), When Daphne the Most Beautiful Maiden (Doen Daphne d'over schoone Maeght) (Jacob van Eyck), Grav,e, from Concerto in F Major (Antonio Vivaldi), Affetuoso, from Sonata in D Minor (Georg Philipp Telemann), Air a L'Italien, from Suite in a Minor (Georg Philipp Telemann), Adagio ma non tanto, from Sonata in F Major, BWV 1035 (Johann Sebastian Bach), Allegro, from Sonata in F Major, BWV 1035 (Johann Sebastian Bach)

Tradition, Rationality, and Virtue

Tradition, Rationality, and Virtue
Author: Thomas D. D'Andrea
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 558
Release: 2017-09-29
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1351878298

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.

Confronting Aristotle's Ethics

Confronting Aristotle's Ethics
Author: Eugene Garver
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 590
Release: 2010-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1459606108

What is the good life? Posing this question today would likely elicit very different answers. Some might say that the good life means doing good - improving one's community and the lives of others. Others might respond that it means doing well - cultivating one's own abilities in a meaningful way. But for Aristotle these two distinct ideas - doi...

Liberation in the Face of Uncertainty

Liberation in the Face of Uncertainty
Author: Hubert J. M. Hermans
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2022-01-13
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1108844405

This book uses Dialogical Self Theory to respond to the challenges of climate change, well-being, and disenchantment of the world.

Relationship Morality

Relationship Morality
Author: James Kellenberger
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2010-11-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0271043725

The Cultures of Maimonideanism

The Cultures of Maimonideanism
Author: James T. Robinson
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 453
Release: 2009
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004174508

In the history of Jewish thought, no individual scholar has exercised more influence than Maimonides (1138-1204) philosopher and physician, legal scholar and communal leader. This collection of papers, originating at the 2007 EAJS colloquium, places primary emphasis on this influence not on Maimonides himself but the many movements he inspired. Using Maimonideanism as an interpretive lens, the authors of this volume representing a variety of fields and disciplines develop new approaches to and fresh perspectives on the peculiar dynamic of Judaism and philosophy. Focusing on social and cultural processes as well as philosophical ideas and arguments, they point toward an original reconceptualization of Jewish thought.

Spinoza on Human Freedom

Spinoza on Human Freedom
Author: Matthew J. Kisner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2011-02-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1139500090

Spinoza was one of the most influential figures of the Enlightenment, but his often obscure metaphysics makes it difficult to understand the ultimate message of his philosophy. Although he regarded freedom as the fundamental goal of his ethics and politics, his theory of freedom has not received sustained, comprehensive treatment. Spinoza holds that we attain freedom by governing ourselves according to practical principles, which express many of our deepest moral commitments. Matthew J. Kisner focuses on this theory and presents an alternative picture of the ethical project driving Spinoza's philosophical system. His study of the neglected practical philosophy provides an accessible and concrete picture of what it means to live as Spinoza's ethics envisioned.