British Ethical Theorists from Sidgwick to Ewing

British Ethical Theorists from Sidgwick to Ewing
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Publisher : Oxford History of Philosophy
Total Pages : 336
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ISBN-10 : 0198801521
ISBN-13 : 9780198801528
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Book Synopsis British Ethical Theorists from Sidgwick to Ewing by : Thomas Hurka

Download or read book British Ethical Theorists from Sidgwick to Ewing written by Thomas Hurka and published by Oxford History of Philosophy. This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Hurka presents the first full historical study of an important strand in the development of modern moral philosophy. His subject is a series of British ethical theorists from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, who shared key assumptions that made them a unified and distinctive school. The best-known of them are Henry Sidgwick, G. E. Moore, and W. D. Ross; others include Hastings Rashdall, H. A. Prichard, C. D. Broad, and A. C. Ewing. They disagreed on some important topics, especially in normative ethics. Thus some were consequentialists and others deontologists: Sidgwick thought only pleasure is good while others emphasized perfectionist goods such as knowledge, aesthetic appreciation, and virtue. But all were non-naturalists and intuitionists in metaethics, holding that moral judgements can be objectively true, have a distinctive subject-matter, and are known by direct insight. They also had similar views about how ethical theory should proceed and what are relevant arguments in it; their disagreements therefore took place on common ground. Hurka recovers the history of this under-appreciated group by showing what its members thought, how they influenced each other, and how their ideas changed through time. He also identifies the shared assumptions that made their school unified and distinctive, and assesses their contributions critically, both when they debated each other and when they agreed. One of his themes is that that their general approach to ethics was more fruitful philosophically than many better-known ones of both earlier and later times.

British Ethical Theorists from Sidgwick to Ewing

British Ethical Theorists from Sidgwick to Ewing
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Publisher : OUP Oxford
Total Pages : 325
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ISBN-10 : 9780191038532
ISBN-13 : 0191038539
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Book Synopsis British Ethical Theorists from Sidgwick to Ewing by : Thomas Hurka

Download or read book British Ethical Theorists from Sidgwick to Ewing written by Thomas Hurka and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Hurka presents the first full historical study of an important strand in the development of modern moral philosophy. His subject is a series of British ethical theorists from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, who shared key assumptions that made them a unified and distinctive school. The best-known of them are Henry Sidgwick, G. E. Moore, and W. D. Ross; others include Hastings Rashdall, H. A. Prichard, C. D. Broad, and A. C. Ewing. They disagreed on some important topics, especially in normative ethics. Thus some were consequentialists and others deontologists: Sidgwick thought only pleasure is good while others emphasized perfectionist goods such as knowledge, aesthetic appreciation, and virtue. But all were non-naturalists and intuitionists in metaethics, holding that moral judgements can be objectively true, have a distinctive subject-matter, and are known by direct insight. They also had similar views about how ethical theory should proceed and what are relevant arguments in it; their disagreements therefore took place on common ground. Hurka recovers the history of this under-appreciated group by showing what its members thought, how they influenced each other, and how their ideas changed through time. He also identifies the shared assumptions that made their school unified and distinctive, and assesses their contributions critically, both when they debated each other and when they agreed. One of his themes is that that their general approach to ethics was more fruitful philosophically than many better-known ones of both earlier and later times.

British Ethical Theorists from Sidgwick to Ewing

British Ethical Theorists from Sidgwick to Ewing
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 325
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ISBN-10 : 9780199233625
ISBN-13 : 0199233624
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Book Synopsis British Ethical Theorists from Sidgwick to Ewing by : Thomas Hurka

Download or read book British Ethical Theorists from Sidgwick to Ewing written by Thomas Hurka and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines a series of British ethical theorists from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century who shared the view that moral judgements can be objectively true, have a distinctive subject matter, and are known by direct insight.

The Quality of Life

The Quality of Life
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 368
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ISBN-10 : 9780192563965
ISBN-13 : 0192563963
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Book Synopsis The Quality of Life by : Richard Kraut

Download or read book The Quality of Life written by Richard Kraut and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-22 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Quality of Life: Aristotle Revised presents a philosophical theory about the constituents of human well-being. The principal idea is that what Aristotle calls 'external goods' - wealth, reputation, power - have at most an indirect bearing on the quality of our lives. Starting with Aristotle's thoughts about this topic, Kraut increasingly modifies (and occasionally rejects) that stance. He argues that the way in which we experience the world is what well-being consists in. A good internal life comprises, in part, pleasure but far more valuable is the quality of our emotional, intellectual, social, and perceptual experiences. These offer the potential for a richer and deeper quality of life than that which is available to many other animals. A good human life is immeasurably better than that of a simple creature that feels only the pleasures of nourishment; even if it felt pleasure for millions of years, human life would be superior. In opposition to contemporary discussions of well-being, which often appeal to a thought experiment devised by Robert Nozick, Kraut concludes that the quality of our lives consists entirely in the quality of our experiences. While others hold that we must live in 'the real world' to live well and that one's interior life has little or no value on its own, Kraut's interpretation of this thought experiment supports the opposite conclusion.

Sidgwick's the Methods of Ethics

Sidgwick's the Methods of Ethics
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 273
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ISBN-10 : 9780197539613
ISBN-13 : 0197539610
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Book Synopsis Sidgwick's the Methods of Ethics by : David Phillips

Download or read book Sidgwick's the Methods of Ethics written by David Phillips and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-13 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author David Phillips has produced a clear, concise guide to Henry Sidgwick's masterpiece of classical utilitarian thought, The Methods of Ethics, setting it in its intellectual and cultural context while drawing out its main insights into a variety of fields.

Who Should Die?

Who Should Die?
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 257
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ISBN-10 : 9780190495657
ISBN-13 : 0190495650
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Book Synopsis Who Should Die? by : Ryan C. Jenkins

Download or read book Who Should Die? written by Ryan C. Jenkins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects influential and groundbreaking philosophical work on killing in war. A "who's who" of contemporary scholars, this volume serves as a convenient and authoritative collection uniquely suited for university-level teaching and as a reference for ethicists, policymakers, stakeholders, and any student of the morality of war.

On the Ethics of Naturalism

On the Ethics of Naturalism
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Total Pages : 336
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015013161362
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Book Synopsis On the Ethics of Naturalism by : William Ritchie Sorley

Download or read book On the Ethics of Naturalism written by William Ritchie Sorley and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: