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Recent discussion of the European Enlightenment has tended to
highlight its radical, atheist currents of thought and their
relation to modernity, but much less attention has been paid to the
importance of religion. Contributors to The Enlightenment in
Bohemia redress this balance by focusing on the interactions of
moral philosophy and Catholic theology in Central Europe. Bohemia's
vibrant plurality of cultures provides a unique insight into
different manifestations of Enlightenment, from the Aufklarung of
scholars and priests to the aristocratic Lumieres and the Jewish
Haskalah. Four key areas of interest are highlighted: the
institutional background and media which disseminated moral
knowledge, developments in secular philosophy, the theology of the
Josephist Church and ethical debates within the Jewish Haskalah. At
the centre of this fertile intellectual environment is the presence
of Karl Heinrich Seibt, theologian and teacher, whose pupils and
colleagues penetrated the diverse milieus of multicultural Bohemia.
The Enlightenment in Bohemia brings fresh insights into the nature
and transmission of ideas in eighteenth-century Europe. It
reaffirms the existence of a religious Enlightenment, and replaces
the traditional context of 'nation' with a new awareness of
intersecting national and linguistic cultures, which has a
particular relevance today.
How do you decide what is ethically wrong and right? Few people
make moral judgments by taking the theory first. Specifically
written with the interests, needs, and experience of students in
mind, this textbook approaches thinking ethically as you do in real
life - by first encountering practical moral problems and then
introducing theory to understand and integrate the issues. Built
around engaging case studies from news media, court hearings,
famous speeches and philosophical writings, each of the 15
chapters: - explains and defines the moral problem dealt with -
provides excerpts of readings on all sides of the issue - analyses
the problem, using the relevant theory The examples are
recognizable ethical problems, including judgments about racism and
sexism, controversial debates such as assisted suicide and the
death penalty, and contemporary concerns like privacy and
technology, corporate responsibility, and the environment. The
mission of the book is to assist you to engage in informed,
independent, critical thinking and to enable you to enter into
ethical discussions in the classroom and beyond. Supported by
learning features, including study questions, key quotes, handy
definitions and a companion website, this book is essential for any
student of moral philosophy.
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Jacques Ellul
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Jacob E. Van Vleet, Jacob Marques Rollison
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Inquiring 'whether any war can be just', Thomas Aquinas famously
responded that this may hold true, provided the war is conducted by
a legitimate authority, for a just cause, and with an upright
intention. Virtually all accounts of just war, from the Middle Ages
to the current day, make reference to this threefold formula. But
due in large measure to its very succinctness, Aquinas's theory has
prompted contrasting interpretations. This book sets the record
straight by surveying the wide range of texts in his literary
corpus that have bearing on peace and the ethics of war. Thereby
emerges a coherent and nuanced picture of just war as set within
his systematic moral theory. It is shown how Aquinas deftly
combined elements from earlier authors, and how his teaching has
fruitfully propelled inquiry on this important topic by his fellow
scholastics, later legal theorists such as Grotius, and
contemporary philosophers of just war.
What is the significance of the Protestant Reformation for
Christian ethical thinking and action? Can core Protestant
commitments and claims still provide for compelling and viable
accounts of Christian living. This collection of essays by leading
international scholars explores the relevance of the Protestant
Reformation and its legacy for contemporary Christian ethics.
Contemporary cosmopolitan moral theorists argue that, in our
increasingly interconnected world, all individuals need to
recognize that moral duties span state borders, involving
responsibilities such as respecting human rights. Such arguments
usually focus on the duties of individuals or on reforms for
international political and economic institutions. The Cosmopolitan
Potential of Exclusive Associations draws attention to how
non-state, not-for-profit transnational associations can advance
respect for equality in a plurality of less obvious ways. By
synthesizing moral theories of cosmopolitanism with international
relations scholarship, it is possible to establish criteria for
assessing whether and to what extent transnational associations
like Medecins sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders) or the
International Olympic Committee cultivate respect for fellow humans
and build transnational communities. As these examples show, not
all non-state associations have the mission of advocating for human
rights. Membership is also not necessarily inclusive of all
humanity. Membership criteria exclude based on criteria such as
professional expertise, athletic prowess, or certain religious
beliefs. As a result, assessing their impact requires looking for
partial expressions of cosmopolitanism that arise piecemeal and
without self-conscious intention. Rather than defending one version
of cosmopolitan theory as more applicable to evaluating the impact
of associations, adapting and combining four common approaches to
cosmopolitanism-(1) institutional cosmopolitanism, (2) natural
duties cosmopolitanism, (3) cultural cosmopolitanism, and (4)
deliberative democratic cosmopolitanism-makes it possible to
evaluate institutional, developmental, shared-identity, or
public-sphere effects of associations. Applying the criteria to
associations that do not self-consciously advance cosmopolitanism
shows the potential for partial forms of cosmopolitanism. Medecins
sans Frontieres, the first case explored, provides emergency
medical care across the globe without establishing a transnational
community with those it aids. The International Olympic Committee,
the second case, brings the world together around global games in
which national teams compete against each other. Dissidents in the
Anglican Communion, the third case, unite across borders but do so
in favor of an interpretation of the Bible that excludes gay men
from ordained ministry. Despite non-cosmopolitan elements, each
case has lessons about how respect for transnational equality can
emerge in subtle ways without self-conscious belief in cosmopolitan
moral philosophy.
We share the capacity for knowledge with animals, but it is the
nature and the scope of what we may rationally believe that makes
us human. Yet what kind of beliefs do qualify as 'rational'? This
challenging and refreshingly innovative book addresses certain
fundamental questions concerning rational legitimacy of some widely
held beliefs and provides argument-based answers to such questions,
while at the same time encouraging the reader to actively engage
with the views put forward and form his/her own judgement. The book
is typically discursive rather than simply informative, and
introduces philosophy by doing it.
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What's with Free Will?
(Hardcover)
Philip Clayton, James W. Walters; Foreword by John Martin Fischer
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The search for happiness has been an enduring quest for us all. The
greatest minds from history--Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Rousseau,
Kant, Mill, Gandhi, Einstein and many others-all confirm that
happiness is the one thing we all crave after. The Wild Longing of
the Human Heart is divided into two parts. Part one examines the
brief history of happiness which has not always meant exactly the
same thing to all cultures and individuals, and then moves on to
summarize the latest information from the areas of brain science as
well as the field of positive psychology. Part two proposes that it
is not happiness (in the psycho-physiological sense of something
like tranquility) which is the true goal of human living. Rather,
the true goal of the "wild longing" is a meaningful life, guided by
the search for truth, beauty and goodness.
Solidarity Beyond Borders is a collection on international ethics
by a multidisciplinary team of scholars from four continents. The
volume explores ethical and political dimensions of transnational
solidarity in the emerging multipolar world. Analyzing global
challenges of the world plagued by poverty, diseases, injustice,
inequality and environmental degradation, the contributors - rooted
in diverse cultures and ethical traditions - voice their support
for 'solidarity beyond borders'. Bringing to light both universally
shared ethical insights as well as the irreducible diversity of
ethical perceptions of particular problems helps the reader to
appreciate the chances and the challenges that the global community
- more interconnected and yet more ideologically fragmented than
ever before - faces in the coming decades. Solidarity Beyond
Borders exemplifies an innovative approach to the key issues of
global ethics which takes into account the processes of economic
globalization, leading to an ever deeper interdependence of peoples
and states, as well as the increasing cultural and ideological
fragmentation which characterize the emerging multipolar world
order.
Hegel's Philosophy of Right has long been recognized as the only
systematic alternative to the dominant social contract tradition in
modern political philosophy. Dean Moyar here takes on the difficult
task of reading and representing Hegel's view of justice with the
same kind of intuitive appeal that has made social contract theory,
with its voluntary consent and assignment of rights and privileges,
such an attractive model. Moyar argues that Hegelian justice
depends on a proper understanding of Hegel's theory of value and on
the model of life through which the overall conception of value,
the Good, is operationalized. Closely examining key episodes in
Phenomenology of Spirit and the entire Philosophy of Right, Moyar
shows how Hegel develops his account of justice through an
inferentialist method whereby the content of right unfolds into
increasingly thick normative structures. He asserts that the theory
of value that Hegel develops in tandem with the account of right
relies on a productive unity of self-consciousness and life, of
pure thinking and the natural drives. Moyar argues that Hegel's
expressive account of the free will enables him to theorize rights
not simply as abstract claims, but rather as realizations of value
in social contexts of mutual recognition. Moyar shows that Hegel's
account of justice is a living system of institutions centered on a
close relation of the economic and political spheres and on an
understanding of the law as developing through practices of public
reason. Moyar defends Hegel's metaphysics of the State as an
account of the sovereignty of the Good, and he shows why Hegel
thought that philosophy needs to offer an account of world history
and reformed religion to buttress the modern social order.
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Anti-Machiavel
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Innocent Gentillet; Edited by Ryan Murtha; Translated by Simon Patericke
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