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The Second-Person Standpoint
Author | : Stephen Darwall |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 2009-09-30 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0674034627 |
Why should we avoid doing moral wrong? The inability of philosophy to answer this question in a compelling manner—along with the moral skepticism and ethical confusion that ensue—result, Stephen Darwall argues, from our failure to appreciate the essentially interpersonal character of moral obligation. After showing how attempts to vindicate morality have tended to change the subject—falling back on non-moral values or practical, first-person considerations—Darwall elaborates the interpersonal nature of moral obligations: their inherent link to our responsibilities to one another as members of the moral community. As Darwall defines it, the concept of moral obligation has an irreducibly second-person aspect; it presupposes our authority to make claims and demands on one another. And so too do many other central notions, including those of rights, the dignity of and respect for persons, and the very concept of person itself. The result is nothing less than a fundamental reorientation of moral theory that enables it at last to account for morality’s supreme authority—an account that Darwall carries from the realm of theory to the practical world of second-person attitudes, emotions, and actions.
Twelve Lectures in which the teaching of the Bible is shown to be opposed to the doctrines of all the names and denominations of Christendom. Being a fourth edition, with five additional lectures, etc
Author | : Robert ROBERTS (Christadelphian.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1867 |
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Human Nature After Darwin
Author | : Janet Radcliffe Richards |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2005-07-05 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1134615825 |
Human Nature After Darwin is an original investigation of the implications of Darwinism for our understanding of ourselves and our situation. It casts new light on current Darwinian controversies, also providing an introduction to philosophical reasoning and a range of philosophical problems. Janet Radcliffe Richards claims that many current battles about Darwinism are based on mistaken assumptions about the implications of the rival views. Her analysis of these implications provides a much-needed guide to the fundamentals of Darwinism and the so-called Darwin wars, as well as providing a set of philosophical techniques relevant to wide areas of moral and political debate. The lucid presentation makes the book an ideal introduction to both philosophy and Darwinism as well as a substantive contribution to topics of intense current controversy. It will be of interest to students of philosophy, science and the social sciences, and critical thinking.
Sidgwick's Ethics and Victorian Moral Philosophy
Author | : Jerome B. Schneewind |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780198245520 |
Henry Sidgwick's The Methods of Ethics challenges comparison, as no other work in moral philosophy, with Aristotle's Ethics in the depth of its understanding of practical rationality, and in its architectural coherence it rivals the work of Kant. In this historical, rather than critical study, Professor Schneewind shows how Sidgwick's arguments and conclusions represent rational developments of the work of Sidgwick's predecessors, and brings out the nature and structure of the reasoning underlying his position.