A compound of these views may be found in David Herbert Donald's Lincoln, where we are told, first, that to judge by the Second Inaugural the president lost no sleep over the tribulations of the Civil War and, second, that the address ...
Using path-breaking discoveries of cognitive science, Mark Johnson argues that humans are fundamentally imaginative moral animals, challenging the view that morality is simply a system of universal laws dictated by reason.
The Enlightenment idea that reason creates fixed moral rules that specify "the right thing to do" is mistaken, according to Johnson, because it misses the ways in which human conceptual systems are grounded in bodily experience, and it ...
Exploring the most sophisticated thinking from philosophy, theology, medicine, and the law, Edward Tivnan takes us through the intellectual and emotional complexities of the most pressing ethical debates of our day: abortion, euthanasia, ...
This book helps break down and analyze the process of solid decision-making.
This book helps break down and analyze the process of solid decision-making.