Theory of moral sentiments

Theory of Moral Sentiments

Investigating the flip side of economic self-interest, this title advances ideas about conscience, moral judgement and virtue that have taken on the i

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Theory of Moral Sentiments

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The Theory of Moral Sentiments

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Platonic Theory of Moral Education

Discussing PlatoÂ’s views on knowledge, recollection, dialogue, and epiphany, this ambitious volume offers a systematic analysis of the ways that Plat

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Classics of Moral and Political Theory

An anthology that offers selections from Aristotle's "Politics", Aquinas' "Disputed Questions on Virtue a Treatise on Law", as well as the entirety of

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Adam Smith and Modernity Taylor & Francis Ltd

This volume features essays on Adam Smith’s conception of modernity. The contributions demonstrate the relevance of Smith as the great interpreter of modernity 250 years after the publication of The Wealth of Nations. The chapters in Section 1 focus on structural aspects of Smith’s work. Part 2 addresses the construction of modern subjectivity between Lectures on Rhetoric...

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Handbook of Moral Development

The Handbook of Moral Development is the definitive source of theory and research on the origins and development of morality in childhood and adolesce

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Moral Status of Combatants

This book develops a new contractualist foundation for just war theory, which defends the traditional view of the moral equality of combatants and ass

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Moral Relativism and Moral Objectivity

Do moral questions have objective answers? In this great debate, Gilbert Harman explains and argues for relativism, emotivism, and moral scepticism. In his view, moral disagreements are like disagreements about what to pay for a house; there are no correct answers ahead of time, except in relation to one or another moral framework. Independently, Judith Jarvis Thomson ex...

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Moral Constraints on War

This book seeks, in concrete historical terms, to deal with the issue of constraining war on the basis of moral principles as found in Just War Theory

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Moral Teleology Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book develops a unified theory of moral progress. It argues that there are mechanisms in place that drive societies towards moral improvement. The first part shows that cultural evolution successfully explains the origins of modern forms of morally welcome change. The second part argues that there is logical space for a moderate form of teleology, and that the conver...

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Drone Theory

Drawing on philosophical debate, moral lessons from Greek mythology and transcripts of conversations between drone operators, this book re-evaluates t

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Moral Panics and School Educational Policy

This book explores school educational policy through the lens of moral panic theory at a theoretical level, and through a select history of moral pani

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Becoming Human: A Theory of Ontogeny - Tomasello Michael

Anotace: "A landmark in our understanding of human development."?Paul Harris, author of Trusting What You´re Told"Magisterial...Makes an impressive argument that most distinctly human traits are established early in childhood and that the general chronology in which these traits appear can...be identified."?Wall Street JournalVirtually all theories of how humans have bec...

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Enigma of Social Harm

Drawing on a novel blend of moral philosophy, social science psychoanalytic theory and continental philosophy, this book offers up a diagnosis of cont

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Evolution of the Soul

Men have evolved from animals, and animals from inanimate matter, but what has evolved is qualitatively different from the inanimate matter from which it began. Both men and the higher animals have a mental life of sensation, thought, purpose, desire, and belief. Although these mental states in part cause, and are caused by, brain states, they are distinct from them. Rich...

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Getting Our Act Together

This book develops an original theory of collective moral obligations. The theory does not stipulate a new type of moral obligation, but rather sugges

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C. S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man (A Macat Analysis) - Brittany Pheiffer Noble

<p>C.S. Lewis’s 1943 The Abolition of Man is a set of three essays that encapsulate some of the most important elements of good critical thinking. Lewis considers a weighty topic, moral philosophy – and more precisely how we teach it, and where morality comes from. As critics and enthusiasts for Lewis’s work alike have noted, though, he was not a philosopher as such...

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Ethics

An insight into moral skepticism of the 20th century. The author argues that our every-day moral codes are an 'error theory' based on the presumption

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Thomas Aquinas on Virtue

Thomas Aquinas's work on moral theory focused on the status and value of the virtues, and the way in which a moral life can be organized around them.

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Morality Made Visible

This book is the first full study of Edward WestermarckÂ’s moral and social theory, focusing on the key elements of his theory of moral emotions as pr

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Self-Constitution

Christine M. Korsgaard presents an account of the foundation of practical reason and moral obligation, based on a new theory of action and interaction

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Opus Dei

In this book, Agamben investigates the roots of the modern moral concept of duty in the theory and practice of Christian liturgy.

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Aspiration

Aspiration by Agnes Callard locates standing assumptions in the theory of rationality, moral psychology and autonomy that preclude the possibility of

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Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics Volume 13

OSNE is an annual forum for new work in normative ethical theory. Leading philosophers advance our understanding of a wide range of moral issues and p

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Practical Wisdom

This book rethinks the role of practical wisdom in light of recent developments in virtue theory and moral, social and developmental psychology. They

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Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics Volume 10

OSNE is an annual forum for new work in normative ethical theory. Leading philosophers advance our understanding of a wide range of moral issues and p

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Bioethics

This book is the first systematic integrated analysis of ethical issues in health care which combines an introduction to moral theory, a set of readin

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Practical Wisdom

This book rethinks the role of practical wisdom in light of recent developments in virtue theory and moral, social and developmental psychology. They

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Natural Goodness

Presents an approach to moral philosophy. This work of dry theory, is intended for those intrigued by the questions about goodness and human life.

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Individual in Business Ethics

The theory of Business Ethics provides the moral guideline and standards for corporate life and concrete business organizations apply those standards

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Aspiration

Aspiration by Agnes Callard locates standing assumptions in the theory of rationality, moral psychology and autonomy that preclude the possibility of working to acquire new values. The book also explains what changes need to be made if we are to make room for this form of agency, which I call aspiration.

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Zoopolis

Zoopolis offers a new agenda for the theory and practice of animal rights. Most animal rights theory focuses on the intrinsic capacities or interests of animals, and the moral status and moral rights that these intrinsic characteristics give rise to. Zoopolis shifts the debate from the realm of moral theory and applied ethics to the realm of political theory, focusing o...

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Security, Identity and Interests

Bill McSweeney addresses the central problem of international relations - security - and constructs a novel framework for its analysis. He argues for the unity of the interpersonal, societal and international levels of human behaviour and outlines a concept of security which more adequately reflects the complexity and ambiguity of the topic. This book introduces an altern...

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How Should One Live?

The last four decades have seen a remarkable revival of interest in the virtues, which lay at the heart of ancient and medieval moral philosophy. This collection is the first general survey of this revival, containing specially commissioned articles on topics central to virtue ethics and virtue theory, written by a distinguished international team of philosophers. It repr...

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Antipolitics in Central European Art

Art historians have tended to frame late socialist central European art as either 'totalitarian' or 'transitional'. This bold new book challenges this established viewpoint, contending that the artists of this era cannot be simply caricatured as dissident heroes, or easily subsumed into the formalist Western canon. Klara Kemp-Welch offers a compelling account of the ways ...

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