The Expectations Of Morality

Author : Gregory Mellema
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042017429
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Expectations of Morality written by Gregory Mellema and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2004 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moral expectation is a concept with which all of us are well acquainted. Already as children we learn that certain courses of action are expected of us. We are expected to perform certain actions, and we are expected to refrain from other actions. Furthermore, we learn that something is morally wrong with the failure to do what we are morally expected to do. A central theme of this book is that moral expectation should not be confused with moral obligation. While we are morally expected to do everything we are obligated to do, a person can be morally expected to do some things that he or she is not morally obligated to do. Although moral expectation is a familiar notion, it has not been the object of investigation in its own right. In the early chapters Mellema attempts to provide a philosophical account of this familiar notion, distinguish it from other types of expectations, and show how it is possible to form false moral expectations. Subsequent chapters explore the role of moral expectation in agreements between people, analyze ways that people avoid moral expectation, illustrate how groups can have moral expectations, and view moral expectation in the context of our relationship with divine beings. The final chapter provides insight into how moral expectation operates in people's professional lives.

Author : R. Jay Wallace
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674268210
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Responsibility and the Moral Sentiments written by R. Jay Wallace and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-08 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: R. Jay Wallace advances a powerful and sustained argument against the common view that accountability requires freedom of will. Instead, he maintains, the fairness of holding people responsible depends on their rational competence: the power to grasp moral reasons and to control their behavior accordingly. He shows how these forms of rational competence are compatible with determinism. At the same time, giving serious consideration to incompatibilist concerns, Wallace develops a compelling diagnosis of the common assumption that freedom is necessary for responsibility.

Author : Mark Timmons
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Normative Et
ISBN 13 : 019872215X
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics written by Mark Timmons and published by Oxford Studies in Normative Et. This book was released on 2014 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, leading philosophers advance our understanding of a wide range of moral issues and positions, from analysis of competing normative theories to questions of how we should act and live well.

Author : Marc D. Hauser
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061864781
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moral Minds written by Marc D. Hauser and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Harvard scientist illuminates the biological basis for human morality in this groundbreaking book. With the diversity of moral attitudes found across cultures around the globe, it is easy to assume that moral perspectives are socially developed—a matter of nurture rather than nature. But in Moral Minds, Marc Hauser presents compelling evidence to the contrary, and offers a revolutionary new theory: that humans have evolved a universal moral instinct. Hauser argues that certain biologically innate moral principles propel us toward judgments of right and wrong independent of gender, education, and religion. Combining his cutting-edge research with the latest findings in cognitive psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, economics, and anthropology, Hauser explores the startling implications of his provocative theory vis-à-vis contemporary bioethics, religion, the law, and our everyday lives.

Author : Steven C. van den Heuvel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351615505
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theological Ethics and Moral Value Phenomena written by Steven C. van den Heuvel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-22 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The experience of moral values is often side-lined in discussions about moral reasoning, and yet our values define a large part of our moral motives, standards and expectations. Theological Ethics and Moral Value Phenomena explores whether the experience of a meeting point of the immanent and the transcendent, i.e. the moral self and God, can be the source of our values. The book starts by arguing for a greater theological engagement with value ethics, personalism and the phenomenological method by drawing on thinkers such as Max Scheler and William James. It then provides an understanding of the social and religious dimension of the valuing person, demonstrating the importance of the emotional, as well as the cognitive, dimension of value experience. Finally, this value perspective is utilised to engage with current moral issues such as professional ethics, environmental ethics, economical ethics and family ethics. Integrating the concepts of religious experience, moral motivation, and subjective and objective value within a broad framework of Christian theology and philosophy, this is vital reading for any scholar of Theology and Philosophy with an interest in ethics and moral reasoning.

Author : David Edmonds
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198862083
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Future Morality written by David Edmonds and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world is changing at such speed that it's hard to know how to think about the new kinds of dilemma that are springing up: Can robots be held responsible for their actions? Can science predict crime - and prevent it? Is the future gender-fluid? David Edmonds has put together a philosophical task force to get to grips with challenges like these.

Author : Markus Wolfensberger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110848719X
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trust in Medicine written by Markus Wolfensberger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines trust, its definition, value, and decline from the perspective of a physician and a medical ethicist.

Author : Daniel R. DeNicola
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1770488243
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Reader in Moral Philosophy written by Daniel R. DeNicola and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2022-02-23 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively anthology provides classic and contemporary defenses and critiques of the central ethical theories, along with readings on a selection of moral issues such as freedom of expression, immigration, and the treatment of non-human animals. Generous excerpts of canonical texts are included alongside contemporary works, all carefully selected and thoughtfully edited for student use. Readings on the ethical theories are organized intuitively, by implicit source of value: god, human nature, culture, reason, consent, character, emotion, care, particulars, and intuitions. The interconnections among readings amplify teaching possibilities and create a vigorous conversation about morality.

Author : Susan Sauvé Meyer
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 9780199697434
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aristotle on Moral Responsibility written by Susan Sauvé Meyer and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-11-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reissue, with new introduction, of Susan Sauvé Meyer's 1993 book which presents a striking interpretation of Aristotle's accounts of voluntariness in the Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics. She argues that they constitute a distinctive theory of moral responsibility, and provides powerful responses to notorious puzzles in the account.

Author : Melanie Killen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521665865
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Morality in Everyday Life written by Melanie Killen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-10-13 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection highlights research on morality in human development.