Author: James Edward John Altham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521479301
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A distinguished international team of philosophers offer responses to the work of Bernard Williams, followed by the author's reply.
World, Mind, and Ethics
Author: James Edward John Altham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521479301
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A distinguished international team of philosophers offer responses to the work of Bernard Williams, followed by the author's reply.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521479301
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A distinguished international team of philosophers offer responses to the work of Bernard Williams, followed by the author's reply.
Ethics for a Broken World
Author: Tim Mulgan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131754773X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Imagine living in the future in a world already damaged by humankind, a world where resources are insufficient to meet everyone's basic needs and where a chaotic climate makes life precarious. Then imagine looking back into the past, back to our own time and assessing the ethics of the early twenty-first century. "Ethics for a Broken World" imagines how the future might judge us and how living in a time of global environmental degradation might utterly reshape the politics and ethics of the future. This book is presented as a series of history of philosophy lectures given in the future, studying the classic texts from a past age of affluence, our own time. The central ethical questions of our time are shown to look very different from the perspective of a ruined world. The aim of "Ethics for a Broken" World is to look at our present with the benefit of hindsight - to reimagine contemporary philosophy in an historical context - and to highlight the contingency of our own moral and political ideals.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131754773X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Imagine living in the future in a world already damaged by humankind, a world where resources are insufficient to meet everyone's basic needs and where a chaotic climate makes life precarious. Then imagine looking back into the past, back to our own time and assessing the ethics of the early twenty-first century. "Ethics for a Broken World" imagines how the future might judge us and how living in a time of global environmental degradation might utterly reshape the politics and ethics of the future. This book is presented as a series of history of philosophy lectures given in the future, studying the classic texts from a past age of affluence, our own time. The central ethical questions of our time are shown to look very different from the perspective of a ruined world. The aim of "Ethics for a Broken" World is to look at our present with the benefit of hindsight - to reimagine contemporary philosophy in an historical context - and to highlight the contingency of our own moral and political ideals.
Mind, Value, and Reality
Author: John Henry McDowell
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674007130
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
This book collects some of McDowell’s most influential papers of the last two decades. The essays deal with themes such as the interpretation of Aristotle’s and Plato’s ethical writings, questions in moral philosophy that arise out of the Greek tradition, Wittengensteinian ideas about reason in action, and issues central to philosophy of mind.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674007130
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
This book collects some of McDowell’s most influential papers of the last two decades. The essays deal with themes such as the interpretation of Aristotle’s and Plato’s ethical writings, questions in moral philosophy that arise out of the Greek tradition, Wittengensteinian ideas about reason in action, and issues central to philosophy of mind.
Rights Come to Mind
Author: Joseph Fins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052188750X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
Joseph J. Fins calls for a reconsideration of severe brain injury treatment, including discussion of public policy and physician advocacy.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052188750X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
Joseph J. Fins calls for a reconsideration of severe brain injury treatment, including discussion of public policy and physician advocacy.
Ethics for the Real World
Author: Ronald Arthur Howard
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
ISBN: 1422121062
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
This work focuses on one of ethics' most insidious problems: the inability to make clear and consistent choices in everyday life. The practical tools and techniques in this book can help readers design a set of personal standards, based on sound ethical reasoning, for reducing everyday compromises.
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
ISBN: 1422121062
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
This work focuses on one of ethics' most insidious problems: the inability to make clear and consistent choices in everyday life. The practical tools and techniques in this book can help readers design a set of personal standards, based on sound ethical reasoning, for reducing everyday compromises.
Beyond Religion
Author: Dalai Lama XIV Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547636350
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
"Beyond Religion" is a stirring call to move beyond religion for the guidance to improve human life on individual, community, and global levels--including a guided meditation practice for cultivating key human values.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547636350
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
"Beyond Religion" is a stirring call to move beyond religion for the guidance to improve human life on individual, community, and global levels--including a guided meditation practice for cultivating key human values.
One World
Author: Peter Singer
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300128525
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Written by a religious historian, this is an introduction to early Christian thought. Focusing on major figures such as St Augustine and Gregory of Nyssa, as well as a host of less well-known thinkers, Robert Wilken chronicles the emergence of a specifically Christian intellectual tradition. In chapters on topics including early Christian worship, Christian poetry and the spiritual life, the Trinity, Christ, the Bible, and icons, Wilken shows that the energy and vitality of early Christianity arose from within the life of the Church. While early Christian thinkers drew on the philosophical and rhetorical traditions of the ancient world, it was the versatile vocabulary of the Bible that loosened their tongues and minds and allowed them to construct the world anew, intellectually and spiritually. These thinkers were not seeking to invent a world of ideas, Wilken shows, but rather to win the hearts of men and women and to change their lives. Early Christian thinkers set in place a foundation that has endured. Their writings are an irreplaceable inheritance, and Wilken shows that they can still be heard as living voices within contemporary culture.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300128525
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Written by a religious historian, this is an introduction to early Christian thought. Focusing on major figures such as St Augustine and Gregory of Nyssa, as well as a host of less well-known thinkers, Robert Wilken chronicles the emergence of a specifically Christian intellectual tradition. In chapters on topics including early Christian worship, Christian poetry and the spiritual life, the Trinity, Christ, the Bible, and icons, Wilken shows that the energy and vitality of early Christianity arose from within the life of the Church. While early Christian thinkers drew on the philosophical and rhetorical traditions of the ancient world, it was the versatile vocabulary of the Bible that loosened their tongues and minds and allowed them to construct the world anew, intellectually and spiritually. These thinkers were not seeking to invent a world of ideas, Wilken shows, but rather to win the hearts of men and women and to change their lives. Early Christian thinkers set in place a foundation that has endured. Their writings are an irreplaceable inheritance, and Wilken shows that they can still be heard as living voices within contemporary culture.
The Dialogical Mind
Author: Ivana Marková
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107002559
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Marková offers a dialogical perspective to problems in daily life and professional practices involving communication, care, and therapy.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107002559
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Marková offers a dialogical perspective to problems in daily life and professional practices involving communication, care, and therapy.
Understanding Gregory Bateson
Author: Noel G. Charlton
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791478270
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Gregory Bateson (1904–1980), anthropologist, psychologist, systems thinker, student of animal communication, and insightful environmentalist, was one of the most important holistic thinkers of the twentieth century. Noel G. Charlton offers this first truly accessible introduction to Bateson's work, distilling and clarifying Bateson's understanding of the "mind" or "mental systems" as being present throughout the living Earth, in systems and creatures of all kinds. Part biography, part overview of the evolution of his ideas, Charlton's book situates Bateson's thought in relation to that of other ecological thinkers. This long-awaited volume opens up this challenging thinker's body of work and introduces it to a new generation of readers.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791478270
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Gregory Bateson (1904–1980), anthropologist, psychologist, systems thinker, student of animal communication, and insightful environmentalist, was one of the most important holistic thinkers of the twentieth century. Noel G. Charlton offers this first truly accessible introduction to Bateson's work, distilling and clarifying Bateson's understanding of the "mind" or "mental systems" as being present throughout the living Earth, in systems and creatures of all kinds. Part biography, part overview of the evolution of his ideas, Charlton's book situates Bateson's thought in relation to that of other ecological thinkers. This long-awaited volume opens up this challenging thinker's body of work and introduces it to a new generation of readers.
Mind and World
Author: John Henry McDowell
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674576100
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Modern philosophy finds it difficult to give a satisfactory picture of the place of minds in the world. In Mind and World, one of the most distinguished philosophers writing today offers his diagnosis of this difficulty and points to a cure.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674576100
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Modern philosophy finds it difficult to give a satisfactory picture of the place of minds in the world. In Mind and World, one of the most distinguished philosophers writing today offers his diagnosis of this difficulty and points to a cure.