Ethics & Morality
epub |eng | | Author:Immanuel Kant

The negative effect on feeling (unpleasantness) is pathological, like every influence on feeling, and like every feeling generally. But as an effect of the consciousness of the moral law, and ...
( Category: Ethics & Morality June 7,2017 )
epub |eng | 2004-04-30 | Author:Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche [Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm]

XII. By way of concluding, we shall proceed to give our classical prose-writer the promised examples of his style which we have collected. Schopenhauer would probably have classed the whole ...
( Category: Humanism June 7,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Westacott, Emrys

Figure 3.3 What is thought to matter most about a person also changes over time. Family lineage was hugely important in many ancient societies: witness the long genealogies provided in ...
( Category: Ethics & Morality May 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-10 | Author:Emily Esfahani Smith

“How often do you dream of her?” Sarah asked. “Is it, like, she comes to you and says, ‘It’s all going to be okay’?” “Oh yeah. I’ve had dreams like ...
( Category: Ethics & Morality April 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-21 | Author:Clair Brown

BEYOND GDP As long as society is focused on what we buy and consume, our thinking and actions and government policy will be formed and then reinforced by the materialistic ...
( Category: Ethics & Morality March 27,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-11-02 | Author:Davis, Stephen T. [Davis, Stephen T.]

Why Are People Religious? It is clear that religious beliefs and practices are extraordinarily widespread among human beings. They are found in all cultures and nations and periods of history. ...
( Category: Apologetics February 23,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2017-02-13 | Author:George Saunders

LX. Left behind on the roof of the white stone home, I resolved to make one final attempt to talk sense to the boy, who lay nearly insensate at my ...
( Category: Ghosts February 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-10-21 | Author:Allan Bloom

BOOK IX “Well,” I said, “the tyrannic man himself remains to be considered—how he is transformed out of the democratic man, and, once come into being, what sort of man ...
( Category: Democracy December 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-06 | Author:Kant, Immanuel; Walker, Nicholas; Meredith, James Creed

Indeed this concept leads reason into an order of things entirely different from that of a mere mechanism of nature, which mere mechanism no longer proves adequate in this domain. ...
( Category: Rationalism December 7,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-20 | Author:Bruce N Waller [Waller, Bruce]

10 What Does Not Follow from the Denial of Moral Responsibility: Living Morally without Moral Responsibility It is widely believed that moral responsibility is a necessary condition for moral judgments ...
( Category: Applied Psychology September 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-18 | Author:Lynch, Richard A.; [Lynch, Richard A.]

4 Freedom’s Critique: The Trajectories of a Foucauldian Ethics Robert Nye observes about Foucault’s history of sexuality that “his scholarly hermeneutic made it possible for him to be both the ...
( Category: History & Theory September 19,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sheila Jasanoff

NEW VULNERABILITIES Digital traces of persons differ from physical ones in ways that make it more problematic and less useful to draw straightforward analogies with physical persons or spaces. First, ...
( Category: History September 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-07 | Author:Aristotle; Kenny, Anthony;

RELATION OF WISDOM TO UNDERSTANDING What is the use of wisdom and philosophy? 12. One might wonder whether these virtues are of any use. Philosophical understanding does not focus on ...
( Category: Ethics & Morality September 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-18 | Author:Levy, Neil;

But this general rule is clearly false. Consider the practice of capital punishment. Surely it is plausible to claim that many cultures have accepted this practice. But from the fact ...
( Category: Movements July 19,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-18 | Author:Thom, Martin, Ogien, Ruwen

16 AND IF SEXUALITY WERE FREE? What would a world in which sexuality were free be like? We put our capacities to give sexual pleasure at the disposal of others ...
( Category: Deconstruction June 27,2016 )