William H. Willimon and Stanley Hauerwas have given us a little book with that name, Preaching to Strangers (1992). Their thesis, rather like the thesis of this volume, is that the world is not the church, so that the preacher must ...
Finally, McMahon cites the Civil Rights movement that brought social, political, and economic injustices to light, and that enjoyed the support of many citizens for changes in policy and legislation. Specifically in this context, ...
Continuing his polemic against philosophers such as Samuel Clarke and Ralph Cudworth and notions such as eternal fitnesses , Hume cleaves here to his habitual opposition of reason and passion . He always persists in the idea that the ...
Due to electronic rights, some third party content may be suppressed from the eBook and/or eChapter(s). ... You may have seen pictures of trees large enough for tunnels to be cut through, allowing cars to pass.
This new edition of Moore's Ethics includes his essay 'The Nature of Moral Philosophy' as well as editorial notes, an introduction, and a guide to further reading.
Ethics is a subject about which there has been and still is an immense amount of difference of opinion, in spite of all the time and labour which have been devoted to the study of it.
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Someone who thought that the only good thing in the world was the colour green, could couple this unusual moral ... This, in fact, was the view of the classical utilitarians, Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) and John Stuart Mill (1806–1873).
This new English edition of Arnold Geulincx Ethics is the first complete edition to appear in a modern language and includes notes by the great Irish writer Samuel Beckett, who indicated that Geulincx was a key influence on his works."
A Contemporary Introduction Harry J Gensler. Press. Shafer-Landau, R. (ed.) (2012) Ethical Theory: An Anthology, 2nd ed., Malden, Mass.: Blackwell. Sheiman, B. (2009) An Atheist Defends Religion, New York: Penguin. Sher, G. (ed.) ...
Bonhoeffer read Reinhold Schneider's 1940 book Macht und Gnade during his stay in the Ettal monastery (see the letter of January 19, 1941, in DBW 16 [1/58]:110). In Schneider's historical essays “crown” indicates the order “from above,” ...
The philosopher Warren Quinn (d.1991) analyzed these types of cases in a similar way, also noting a distinction between ... Quinn's analysis rests on the idea that this distinction is morally significant because respect for negative ...
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Yet, Gilligan concludes, their responses to the moral dilemma of Heinze typifies “familiar notions about differences between the sexes. . .”128 Gilligan argues that Amy is answering a different question than the interviewer thought he ...
This book will hopefully inspire citizens of all ages to improve their own character, which will ultimately improve the character of our whole nation.
Thomson's violinist 'A Defence of Abortion' is in Peter Singer, ed., Applied Ethics (1986). The little-known Salt comment appears in Singer's Practical Ethics (2011). For commodification: Anne Philips, Our Bodies, Whose Property (2013) ...
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