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In: Value Inquiry Book Series 36
This book defends morality against the critiques of egoims, subjectivism, and relativism. It argues that we can and should construe some moral standards as objective and that justice and self-development are the cornerstones of healthy morality. Opening with a dialogue meant to tease and provoke the reader, the book's subsequent chapters treat misconceptions about morality, the possibility of unselfish action, the nature of free will and moral responsibility, and the identity of moral right and wrong
In: Cambridge introductions to philosophy and law
"Enforcing Morality is written for scholars and graduate students working in the fields of philosophy, law and political theory. It provides both a critical overview of debates on the enforcement of morality and a defense of a distinctive position on the topic"--
In: Oxford scholarship online
Schopenhauer saw compassion as the basis of morality. Ingmar Persson argues that compassion must be supplemented with attitudes like sympathy and benevolence, and that morality essentially involves a concern for justice which is independent of attitudes based on empathy.
The scope of morality, Peter A. French contends, is much narrower than many traditional and contemporary works in ethical theory suggest. We trivialize morality if we think it has something to say about everything we do; it touches us all, but not at all
In: SpringerBriefs in Ethics
In: Springer eBook Collection
Ch.1 Enhancing performance -- Ch.2 Morality and moral bioenhancement -- Ch.3 Support and opposition -- Ch.4 Categorical opposition to MBE: Harris Wiseman -- Ch.5 Realistic means of enhancing morality and why compulsory MBE is ineffecive -- Ch.6 Voluntary moral bioenhancement and happiness as its grounding rationale: The best option on offer.
In: Cambridge studies in philosophy
In The Myth of Morality, Richard Joyce argues that moral discourse is hopelessly flawed. At the heart of ordinary moral judgements is a notion of moral inescapability, or practical authority, which, upon investigation, cannot be reasonably defended. Joyce argues that natural selection is to blame, in that it has provided us with a tendency to invest the world with values that it does not contain, and demands that it does not make. Should we therefore do away with morality, as we did away with other faulty notions such as witches? Possibly not. We may be able to carry on with morality as a 'useful fiction' - allowing it to have a regulative influence on our lives and decisions, perhaps even playing a central role - while not committing ourselves to believing or asserting falsehoods, and thus not being subject to accusations of 'error'
1. Introduction : Nietzsche, naturalist or postmodernist? -- 2. Intellectual history and background -- 3. Nietzsche's critique of morality I : the scope of the critique and the critique of moral agency -- 4. Nietzsche's critique of morality II : the critique of moral norms -- 5. What is "genealogy" and what is the Genealogy? -- 6. A commentary on the first essay -- 7. A commentary on the second essay -- 8. A commentary on the third essay -- 9. Nietzsche since 1900 : critical questions -- Postscript : Nietzsche's naturalism revisited.
In: Springer eBooks
In: Religion and Philosophy
Chapter 1: Why Metaphysics and Morality? -- Chapter 2: Ordinary Morality and Its Detractors -- Chapter 3: Propositions and the First-Order Moral -- Chapter 4: Truth, Facts, and Properties -- Chapter 5: Moral Properties -- Chapter 6: The Metaphysics of Moral Reality
Reality and Morality develops and defends a framework for moral realism. It defends the idea that moral properties are metaphysically elite, or privileged parts of reality, and argues that realists can hold that this makes them highly eligible as the referents for our moral terms (an application of a thesis sometimes called reference magnetism). Billy Dunaway elaborates on these theses by introducing some natural claims about how we can know about morality, by having beliefs that are free from a kind of risk of error. This package of theses in metaphysics, meta-semantics, and epistemology is motivated with a view to explaining possible moral disagreements. 0Many writers have emphasized the scope of moral disagreement, and have given compelling examples of possible users of moral language who appear to be genuinely disagreeing, rather than talking past one another, with their use of moral language. What has gone unnoticed is that there are limits to these possible disagreements, and not all possible users of moral language are naturally interpreted as capable of genuine disagreement. The realist view developed in Reality and Morality can explain both the extent of, and the limits to, moral disagreement, and thereby has explanatory power that counts significantly in its favour
Does morality still matter in the Western world today? What is the basis of claims to human rights? How are local loyalties - to family or nation - to be reconciled with our global responsibilities? Are there limits on the rights of groups? Does law need a moral basis? In this timely book, Roger Trigg examines and defends the role of morality in our social and political lives. Rather than limiting the scope of morality to private choices, Trigg argues that we need to acknowledge the moral foundations of our political way of life in the West, in order that we are better able to live and flourish nationally and internationally
In: Themes for the 21st century
Can politicians be morally good or is politics destined to involve 'dirty hands' or the loss of integrity, as many modern philosophers claim? In this title, Susan Mendus seeks to address these important questions to assess whether this apparent tension between morality and politics is real and, if so, why.
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue. Human Nature and Human Morality: The Challenge of Grounding the Moral Sense -- Part I -- 1 Size, Power, and Death: Constituents in the Making of Human Morality -- 2 Death and Immortality Ideologies in Western Philosophy -- 3 Real Male-Male Competition -- 4 On the Pan-Cultural Origins of Evil -- Part II -- 5 Empathy -- 6 Child's Play: A Multidisciplinary Perspective -- 7 On the Nature of Trust -- 8 The Rationality of Caring: Forging a Genuine Evolutionary Ethics -- Epilogue. Re-Naturing the De-Natured Species: An Interdisciplinary Perspective -- References -- Index of Names -- Index of Terms
In: Evolutionary psychology
This interdisciplinary collection presents novel theories, includes provocative re-workings of longstanding arguments, and offers a healthy cross-pollination of ideas to the morality literature. Structures, functions, and content of morality are reconsidered as cultural, religious, and political components are added to the standard biological/environmental mix. Innovative concepts such as the Periodic Table of Ethics and evidence for morality in non-human species illuminate areas for further discussion and research. And some of the book's contributors question premises we hold dear, such as morality as a product of reason, the existence of moral truths, and the motto "life is good." Highlights of the coverage: The tripartite theory of Machiavellian morality: judgment, influence, and conscience as distinct moral adaptations. Prosocial morality from a biological, cultural, and developmental perspective. The containment problem and the evolutionary debunking of morality. A comparative perspective on the evolution of moral behavior. A moral guide to depravity: religiously-motivated violence and sexual selection. Game theory and the strategic logic of moral intuitions. The Evolution of Morality makes a stimulating supplementary text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in the evolutionary sciences, particularly in psychology, biology, anthropology, sociology, political science, religious studies, and philosophy