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Author |
: Stephen Kershnar |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 195 |
Release |
: 2018-03-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783319769509 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3319769502 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis Total Collapse: The Case Against Responsibility and Morality by : Stephen Kershnar
This book argues that there is no morality and that people are not morally responsible for what they do. In particular, it argues that what people do is neither right nor wrong and that they are neither praiseworthy nor blameworthy for doing it. Morality and moral responsibility lie at the heart of how we view the world. In our daily life, we feel that people act rightly or wrongly, make the world better or worse, and are virtuous or vicious. These policies are central to our justifying how we see the world and treat others. In this book, the author argues that our views on these matters are false. He presents a series of arguments that threaten to undermine our theoretical and practical worldviews. The philosophical costs of denying moral responsibility and morality are enormous. It does violence to philosophical positions that many people took a lifetime to develop. Worse, it does violence to our everyday view of people. A host of concepts that we rely on daily (praiseworthy, blameworthy, desert, virtue, right, wrong, good, bad, etc.) fail to refer to any property in the world and are thus deeply mistaken. This book is of interest to philosophers, lawyers, and humanities professors as well as people interested in morality, law, religion, and public policy.
Author |
: Marianne M. Jennings |
Publisher |
: St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages |
: 552 |
Release |
: 2006-08-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781466824256 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1466824255 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse by : Marianne M. Jennings
Do you want to make sure you · Don't invest your money in the next Enron? · Don't go to work for the next WorldCom right before the crash? · Identify and solve problems in your organization before they send it crashing to the ground? Marianne Jennings has spent a lifetime studying business ethics---and ethical failures. In demand nationwide as a speaker and analyst on business ethics, she takes her decades of findings and shows us in The Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse the reasons that companies and nonprofits undergo ethical collapse, including: · Pressure to maintain numbers · Fear and silence · Young 'uns and a larger-than-life CEO · A weak board · Conflicts · Innovation like no other · Belief that goodness in some areas atones for wrongdoing in others Don't watch the next accounting disaster take your hard-earned savings, or accept the perfect job only to find out your boss is cooking the books. If you're just interested in understanding the (not-so) ethical underpinnings of business today, The Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse is both a must-have tool and a fascinating window into today's business world.
Author |
: Mark Alznauer |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 229 |
Release |
: 2015-02-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107078123 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107078121 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hegel's Theory of Responsibility by : Mark Alznauer
The first book-length treatment of a central concept in Hegel's practical philosophy - the theory of responsibility. This theory is both original and radical in its emphasis on the role and importance of social and historical conditions as a context for our actions.
Author |
: Thomas Pink |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 145 |
Release |
: 2004-06-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780192853585 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0192853589 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis Free Will: A Very Short Introduction by : Thomas Pink
Every day we seem to make and act upon all kinds of free choices - but are these choices really free? Or are we compelled to act the way we do by factors beyond our control? This book looks at free will.
Author |
: Peter Singer |
Publisher |
: Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 268 |
Release |
: 1996-04-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0312144016 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780312144012 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis Rethinking Life and Death by : Peter Singer
In a reassessment of the meaning of life and death, a noted philosopher offers a new definition for life that contrasts a world dependent on biological maintenance with one controlled by state-of-the-art medical technology.
Author |
: Stephen Kershnar |
Publisher |
: Lexington Books |
Total Pages |
: 169 |
Release |
: 2015-05-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781498504478 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1498504477 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis Pedophilia and Adult–Child Sex by : Stephen Kershnar
This book provides a philosophical analysis of adult–child sex and pedophilia. It looks at how the law should respond to such sex given the above analyses.
Author |
: Stephen Kershnar |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 259 |
Release |
: 2021-08-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000429213 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000429210 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis Desert Collapses by : Stephen Kershnar
People consider desert part of our moral world. It structures how we think about important areas such as love, punishment, and work. This book argues that no one deserves anything. If this is correct, then claims that people deserve general and specific things are false. At the heart of desert is the notion of moral credit or discredit. People deserve good things (credit) when they are good people or do desirable things. These desirable things might be right, good, or virtuous acts. People deserve bad things (discredit) when they are bad people or do undesirable things. On some theories, people deserve credit in general terms. For instance, they deserve a good life. On other theories, people deserve credit in specific terms. For instance, they deserve specific incomes, jobs, punishments, relationships, or reputations. The author’s argument against desert rests on three claims: There is no adequate theory of what desert is. Even if there were an adequate theory of what desert is, nothing grounds (justifies) desert. Even if there were an adequate theory of what desert is and something were to ground it, there is no plausible account of what people deserve. Desert Collapses will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working in ethics and political philosophy.
Author |
: Dana Kay Nelkin |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 783 |
Release |
: 2022 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190679309 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190679301 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Moral Responsibility by : Dana Kay Nelkin
The Oxford Handbook of Moral Responsibility is a collection of 33 articles by leading international scholars on the topic of moral responsibility and its main forms, praiseworthiness and blameworthiness. The articles in the volume provide a comprehensive survey on scholarship on this topic since 1960, with a focus on the past three decades. Articles address the nature of moral responsibility - whether it is fundamentally a matter of deserved blame and praise, or whether it is grounded anticipated good consequences, such as moral education and formation, or whether there are different kinds of moral responsibility. They examine responsibility for both actions and omissions, whether responsibility comes in degrees, and whether groups such as corporations can be responsible. The traditional debates about moral responsibility focus on the threats posed from causal determinism, and from the absence of the ability to do otherwise that may result. The articles in this volume build on these arguments and appraise the most recent developments in these debates. Philosophical reflection on the personal relationships and moral responsibility has been especially intense over the past two decades, and several articles reflect this development. Other chapters take up the link between blameworthiness and attitudes such as moral resentment and indignation, while others explore the role that forgiveness and reconciliation play in personal relationships and responsibility. The range of articles in this volume look at moral responsibility from a range of perspectives and disciplines, explaining how physics, neuroscience, and psychological research on topics such as addiction and implicit bias illuminate the ways and degrees to which we might be responsible.
Author |
: Stephen Kershnar |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 234 |
Release |
: 2017-10-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351392198 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351392190 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Does the Pro-Life Worldview Make Sense? by : Stephen Kershnar
This book looks at a family of views involving the pro-life view of abortion and Christianity. These issues are important because major religious branches (for example, Catholicism and some large branches of Evangelicalism) and leading politicians assert, or are committed to, the following: (a) it is permissible to prevent some people from going to hell, (b) abortion prevents some people from going to hell, and (c) abortion is wrong. They also assert, or are committed to, the following: (d) it is permissible to use defensive violence to prevent people from killing innocents, (e) doctors who perform abortions kill innocents, and (f) it is wrong to use defensive violence against doctors who perform abortions. Stephen Kershnar argues that these and other principles are inconsistent. Along the way, he explores the ways in which theories of hell, right forfeiture, and good consequences relate to each other and the above inconsistencies.
Author |
: Avishai Margalit |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 252 |
Release |
: 2002-11-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 067400941X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780674009417 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (1X Downloads) |
Synopsis The Ethics of Memory by : Avishai Margalit
Margalit’s work offers a philosophy for our time, when, in the wake of overwhelming atrocities, memory can seem more crippling than liberating, a force more for revenge than for reconciliation. The book draws on millennia of Western philosophy and religion to provide healing ideas for all who care about the nature of our relations to others.