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Upon returning from Afghanistan, journalist John Webster
discovers a gang war in his backyard. Now he must find a way to
survive in this Canadian warzone-or die in the crossfire.
John Webster has seen the terrible things human beings can do.
He's an experienced investigative journalist, recently returned
from the war in Afghanistan. John saw hell over there; he looked
death straight in the face. He is glad to be back to the normalcy
of his Canadian home-that is, until he realizes there is a war
brewing in his own backyard, and "peace" is a word no longer
spoken.
John gets caught up in the battle between two of the most
powerful and murderous criminal gangs in the city. Using what he
learned on the foreign battlefields, he stays alive, despite the
price on his head. The only way to save his own life is to find the
man responsible for the brutal neighborhood bloodshed. When the
police slap a subpoena on him, though, John finds his only solace
on the streets.
Suddenly, John is back in a warzone, fighting for his life. Will
he be able to stop the bloodthirsty crime lords? The flashbacks to
Afghanistan threaten to pull John into darkness. Soon, the past and
present collide, and he can't tell which way is up or down. The
need for redemption may be stronger than the need for survival as
John Webster finds himself on his most dangerous assignment
yet.
Determined to stop drinking and put the nightmares to rest,
journalist and former war correspondent John Webster wants to turn
over a new leaf. But when a mysterious woman phones him out of
nowhere about an oil company and its corrupt top executives,
Webster fi nds himself dragged into a dangerous chess game played
by the most powerful minds in the country.
The whistleblower hands Webster a secret document indicating
that Nerno Energy's largest oil site may actually be completely
dry. As Webster digs deeper into the secrets of the energy company,
he finds shocking evidence of corruption at the highest levels,
perpetrated by people who will stop at nothing to silence him.
Webster learns Nerno Energy is being readied for sale to foreign
interests who may have their own agenda-an event with implications
for the security of the whole of North America.
This knowledge drives Webster to return to his old destructive
habits and threatens his sanity, his relationships, and his life.
When people start dying around him, Webster races to untangle this
large conspiracy and bring those responsible to justice.
This book challenges the widespread assumption that the ethical
life and society must be moral in any objective sense. In his
previous works, Marks has rejected both the existence of such a
morality and the need to maintain verbal, attitudinal, practical,
and institutional remnants of belief in it. This book develops
these ideas further, with emphasis on constructing a positive
alternative. Calling it "desirism", Marks illustrates what life and
the world would be like if we lived in accordance with our rational
desires rather than the dictates of any actual or pretend morality,
neither overlaying our desires with moral sanction nor attempting
to override them with moral strictures. Hard Atheism and the Ethics
of Desire also argues that atheism thereby becomes more plausible
than the so-called New Atheism that attempts to give up God and yet
retain morality.
Reason and Ethics defends the theoretical claim that all values are
subjective and the practical claim that human affairs can be
conducted fruitfully in full awareness of this. Joel Marks goes
beyond his previous work defending moral skepticism to question the
existence of all objective values. This leads him to suggest a
novel answer to the Companions in Guilt argument that the denial of
morality would mean relinquishing rationality as well. Marks
disarms the argument by conceding the irreality of both morality
and logic, but is still able to rescue rationality while dispensing
with morality on pragmatic grounds. He then offers a positive
account of how life may be lived productively without recourse to
attributions and assertions of right and wrong, good and bad, and
even truth and falsity. Written in an accessible and engaging
style, Reason and Ethics will be of interest to scholars and
students working in metaethics as well as to the generally
intellectually curious.
Reason and Ethics defends the theoretical claim that all values are
subjective and the practical claim that human affairs can be
conducted fruitfully in full awareness of this. Joel Marks goes
beyond his previous work defending moral skepticism to question the
existence of all objective values. This leads him to suggest a
novel answer to the Companions in Guilt argument that the denial of
morality would mean relinquishing rationality as well. Marks
disarms the argument by conceding the irreality of both morality
and logic, but is still able to rescue rationality while dispensing
with morality on pragmatic grounds. He then offers a positive
account of how life may be lived productively without recourse to
attributions and assertions of right and wrong, good and bad, and
even truth and falsity. Written in an accessible and engaging
style, Reason and Ethics will be of interest to scholars and
students working in metaethics as well as to the generally
intellectually curious.
In this volume, Marks offers a defense of amorality as both
philosophically justified and practicably livable. In so doing, the
book marks a radical departure from both the new atheism and the
mainstream of modern ethical philosophy. While in synch with their
underlying aim of grounding human existence in a naturalistic
metaphysics, the book takes both to task for maintaining a
complacent embrace of morality. Marks advocates wiping the slate
clean of outdated connotations by replacing the language of
morality with a language of desire. The book begins with an
analysis of what morality is and then argues that the concept is
not instantiated in reality. Following this, the question of belief
in morality is addressed: How would human life be affected if we
accepted that morality does not exist? Marks argues that at the
very least, a moralist would have little to complain about in an
amoral world, and at best we might hope for a world that was more
to our liking overall. An extended look at the human encounter with
nonhuman animals serves as an illustration of amorality's potential
to make both theoretical and practical headway in resolving
heretofore intractable ethical problems.
In this volume, Marks offers a defense of amorality as both
philosophically justified and practicably livable. In so doing, the
book marks a radical departure from both the new atheism and the
mainstream of modern ethical philosophy. While in synch with their
underlying aim of grounding human existence in a naturalistic
metaphysics, the book takes both to task for maintaining a
complacent embrace of morality. Marks advocates wiping the slate
clean of outdated connotations by replacing the language of
morality with a language of desire. The book begins with an
analysis of what morality is and then argues that the concept is
not instantiated in reality. Following this, the question of belief
in morality is addressed: How would human life be affected if we
accepted that morality does not exist? Marks argues that at the
very least, a moralist would have little to complain about in an
amoral world, and at best we might hope for a world that was more
to our liking overall. An extended look at the human encounter with
nonhuman animals serves as an illustration of amorality's potential
to make both theoretical and practical headway in resolving
heretofore intractable ethical problems.
Ought Implies Kant offers an original defense of the ethical theory
of Immanuel Kant, and develops an extension of that theory's
account of moral duty to include direct duties to nonhuman animals.
The discussion centers on a critical examination of
consequentialism, the view that the rightness or wrongness of an
action is determined solely by its consequences. Kantianism, by
contrast, claims that the core of ethics is to treat all
persons-or, in Joel Marks's view, all living beings-as
ends-in-themselves. The consequentialist criterion would seem to
permit, indeed require, violating the dignity of persons (not to
mention the dignity of other animals) if this would result in a
better outcome. This volume treats the consequentialist challenge
to Kantian ethics in several novel ways. To begin with, the
utilitarian version of consequentialism is delineated and defended
by means of a conceptual device dubbed by the author as the
Consequentialist Continuum. Marks then provides an exhaustive and
definitive exposition of the relatively neglected Epistemic
Objection to utilitarianism. While acknowledging the intuitive
appeal of utilitarianism's core conviction-that we should always do
what is for the best-Marks argues that this is an impossible
injunction to fulfill, or even to attempt to fulfill, because all
of the relevant results of our actions can never be known.
Kantianism is then introduced as a viable alternative account of
our ethical obligations. Marks argues that Kantianism is well
within the scope of normal human competence and conforms equally
well to our ethical intuitions once the theory's proper
interpretation is appreciated. However, Kant's own version must be
extended to accommodate the rightful moral consideration we owe to
nonhuman animals. Finally, Marks employs the notion of a
Consequentialist Illusion to explain utilitarianism's hold on our
moral intuitions, while developing a form of Consequentialist
Kantianism to address them. An original and penetrating examination
of a central debate
Originally designed for the author's introductory college-course in
Ethics, Moral Moments provides an accessible, yet philosophical,
study of Ethics. The book's thirty-three short essays focus on the
following themes: ethics is not subjective, ethics is relevant to
business and everyday life, and 'What is ethics?'. The unique
format includes some previously published newspaper op-ed columns
that cover everything from everyday life to headline news. The
culmination of these essays is a work that argues, against the
social scientific spirit of the age, that ethics has a distinct
role to play in contemporary decision making. Students and the
general public will find Moral Moments' personal and conversational
tone refreshing, while teachers will find helpful the many
classroom episodes depicted, as well as the accompanying website
www.moralmoments.com.
This volume marks the coming into its own of a discipline in
philosophy: theory of desire. It presents discussions whose primary
focus is on desire, with secondary mention of its implications for
ethics, action, emotion, mind, and so forth.
This volume marks the coming into its own of a discipline in
philosophy: theory of desire. It presents discussions whose primary
focus is on desire, with secondary mention of its implications for
ethics, action, emotion, mind, and so forth.
This book challenges the widespread assumption that the ethical
life and society must be moral in any objective sense. In his
previous works, Marks has rejected both the existence of such a
morality and the need to maintain verbal, attitudinal, practical,
and institutional remnants of belief in it. This book develops
these ideas further, with emphasis on constructing a positive
alternative. Calling it "desirism", Marks illustrates what life and
the world would be like if we lived in accordance with our rational
desires rather than the dictates of any actual or pretend morality,
neither overlaying our desires with moral sanction nor attempting
to override them with moral strictures. Hard Atheism and the Ethics
of Desire also argues that atheism thereby becomes more plausible
than the so-called New Atheism that attempts to give up God and yet
retain morality.
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