Ronald Cohen and John Middleton describe detailed studies of societal evolution in Africa. Intertribal warfare, trading, and intermarriage, sometimes forced and sometimes voluntary, were all ways in which larger societies evolved from ...
What is morality and what is the source of our moral ideas?
In today's world of cultural climate change, argues Jonathan Sacks, we have outsourced morality to the markets on the one hand, and to government on the other.
Although Nagel may be right that a morally acceptable resolution of the conflict between these two standpoints is unattainable, the reason for this is that these two standpoints already represent different resolutions of the conflict ...
Michael Stingl, and John Collier, “Reasonable Partiality from a Biological Point of View,” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, ... The Biology and Psychology of Moral Agency (Cambridge: University Press, 1998); Stephen Stich, “Evolution, ...
In Morality, respected faith leader and public intellectual Jonathan Sacks traces today's crisis to our loss of a strong, shared moral code and our elevation of self-interest over the common good.
By distinguishing freedom of indifference from freedom for excellence, he has restored a wise vision of freedom. No one has shown better the role of virtues as building blocks for morality. Catechists need to read this book." Rev.
Such a person, as Aristotle notes, will not be continually tempted to do what is morally wrong. In fact, it is doubtful that a person who was continually tempted would do what is morally wrong significantly less often than most.
This book invites philosophers and their students to consider two of the most fundamental questions in moral and political philosophy: Why be moral? And, what does morality require? James P. Sterba presents his unique views on these topics.
Bernard Williams's remarkable essay on morality confronts the problems of writing moral philosophy, and offers a stimulating alternative to more systematic accounts that seem nevertheless to have left all the important issues somewhere off ...
This is the definitive edition to the work that has received so much attention and acclaim.
In Morality Bernard Williams confronts the problems of writing moral philosophy, and offers a stimulating alternative to more systematic accounts which seem nevertheless to have left all the important issues somewhere off the page.
The book combines theory with practical case studies for student use. Drawing on anthropological, philosophical and general social scientific literature, the book will be useful for both undergraduate students and researchers.
Morality: Memory and Desire
Well-known philosophers from a variety of philosophical orientations vigorously discuss James Sterba's bold claims that morality is required by reason and that even a minimal morality leads to braodly egalitarian commitments--Alison M. ...
This book invites philosophers and their students to consider two of the most fundamental questions in moral and political philosophy: Why be moral? And, what does morality require?
This volume is a revised, enlarged, and broadened version of Gert's classic 1970 book, The Moral Rules. Advocating an approach he terms "morality as impartial rationality," Gert here presents a...