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Author: Alan Jacobs Publisher: ISBN: Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 184
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Explains the art of the moral essay and illustrates its execution on such subjects as Harry Potter, TV animal documentaries, and "luckydipping" in the Bible.
Author: Alan Jacobs Publisher: ISBN: Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 184
Book Description
Explains the art of the moral essay and illustrates its execution on such subjects as Harry Potter, TV animal documentaries, and "luckydipping" in the Bible.
Author: R.M. Hare Publisher: University of California Press ISBN: 0520326202 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 120
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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1972.
Author: Giacomo Leopardi Publisher: ISBN: 9780231057073 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 265
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Newly awakened interest in Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837), arguably the greatest Italian poet since the Renaissance, has resulted in this project to translate a major portion of his works. This volume is the first of four which will encompass the great Canti (in bilingual text), selections from the poet's correspondence, a substantial portion of his enormous intellectual journal, the Zibaldone, and the focus of the present volume, the Operette morali. Originally planned as a set of dialogues in the manner of Lucian, the Operette is a compilation of brief, interrelated works on questions of moral philosphy. By means of numerous characters, and by means of a range of styles, Leopardi grapples with a theory of pleasure, the concepts of fame, the infinite, human happiness, the function of poetry, and other topics. In the poet's own opinion, the Operette represented his major philosophical speculation and ranked just below his Canti.
Author: William Kingdon Clifford Publisher: Good Press ISBN: Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 34
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This book combines the two essays which comprise the famous philosophical exchange between the mathematician William Kingdon Clifford and William James, a psychologist and philosopher. Famous for articulating their arguments and discussing morality surrounding belief, these two papers are united in a single edition.
Author: Owen Flanagan Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 9780262560740 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 508
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Many philosophers believe that normative ethics is in principle independent of psychology. By contrast, the authors of these essays explore the interconnections between psychology and moral theory. They investigate the psychological constraints on realizable ethical ideals and articulate the psychological assumptions behind traditional ethics. They also examine the ways in which the basic architecture of the mind, core emotions, patterns of individual development, social psychology, and the limits on human capacities for rational deliberation affect morality.
Author: Geoffrey Sayre-McCord Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 9780801495410 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 340
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This collection of influential essays illustrates the range, depth, and importance of moral realism, the fundamental issues it raises, and the problems it faces.
Author: J. B. Schneewind Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199563012 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 466
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J.B. Schneewind presents a selection of his published essays on ethics, the history of ethics and moral psychology, together with a new piece offering an intellectual autobiography. The essays range across the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, with a particular focus on Kant and his relation to earlier thinkers.
Author: Barrington Moore Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 1501726420 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 201
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Barrington Moore, Jr., one of the most distinguished thinkers in critical theory and historical sociology, was long concerned with the prospects for freedom and decency in industrial society. The product of decades of reflection on issues of authority, inequality, and injustice, this volume analyzes fluctuating moral beliefs and behavior in political and economic affairs at different points in history, from the early Middle Ages in England to the prospects for liberalism under twentieth-century Soviet socialism. The social sources of antisocial behavior; principles of social inequality; and the origins, enemies, and possibilities of rational discussion in public affairs—these are among the topics Moore considers as he seeks to uncover the historical causes of some accepted forms of morality and to assess their social consequences. The keynote essay examines how moral codes grew out of commercial practices in England from medieval times through the industrial revolution. Moore pays special attention to conceptions of honesty and the temptation to evade that inform the volume as a whole. In the other essays, he considers particular political issues, viewing "political" in its broadest sense as an unequal distribution of power and authority that carries a strong moral charge. Free of preaching and advocacy, his work offers a rare reasonable assessment of the morality of major social institutions over time.
Author: Alexander Pope Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781721115600 Category : Languages : en Pages : 24
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Of the knowledge and characters of men Pope, Alexander Mark Twain once famously said "there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past and can't be restored."Ê Well, over recent years, The British Library, working with Microsoft has embarked on an ambitious programme to digitise its collection of 19th century books. There are now 65,000Ê titles availableÊ (that's an incredible 25 million pages) of material ranging from works by famous names such asÊ Dickens, Trollope and Hardy as well as many forgotten literary gems, all of which can now be printed on demand and purchased right here on Amazon. Further information on The British Library and its digitisation programme can be found on The British Library website. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
Author: Alan Jacobs
Author: Alan Jacobs
Author: R.M. Hare
Author: Giacomo Leopardi
Author: William Kingdon Clifford
Author: Owen Flanagan
Author: Geoffrey Sayre-McCord
Author: J. B. Schneewind
Author: Barrington Moore
Author: Alexander Pope
Author: Alexander Pope