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Author : Arthur Schopenhauer
Release : 1903
Genre : Conduct of life
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Book Synopsis The Basis of Morality by : Arthur Schopenhauer
Download or read book The Basis of Morality written by Arthur Schopenhauer. This book was released on 1903. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur Schopenhauer
Release : 2019-08-15
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis On the Basis of Morality by : Arthur Schopenhauer
Download or read book On the Basis of Morality written by Arthur Schopenhauer. This book was released on 2019-08-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition originally published by Berghahn Books. Schopenhauer's treatise on ethics is presented here in E. F. J. Payne’s definitive translation, based on the Hubscher edition (Wiesbaden, 1946-1950). This edition includes an Introduction by David Cartwright, a translator’s preface, biographical note, selected bibliography, and an index. For convenient reference to passages in Kant's work discussed by Schopenhauer, Academy edition numbers have been added.
Author : Arthur Schopenhauer
Release : 2015-02-10
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Book Synopsis The Basis of Morality by : Arthur Schopenhauer
Download or read book The Basis of Morality written by Arthur Schopenhauer. This book was released on 2015-02-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2015 Reprint of 1915 Edition. "The Basis of Morality" is one of Arthur Schopenhauer's major works in ethics, in which he argues that morality stems from compassion. Schopenhauer begins with a criticism of Kant's "Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals," which Schopenhauer considered to be the clearest explanation of Kantian ethics. Persuasive and humane, this classic of philosophy represents one of the nineteenth century's most significant treatises on ethics. "The Basis of Morality" offers Schopenhauer's fullest examination of traditional ethical themes, and it articulates a descriptive form of ethics that contradicts the rationally based prescriptive theories. Starting with his polemic against Kant's ethics of duty, Schopenhauer anticipates the latter-day critics of moral philosophy. Arguing that compassion forms the basis of morality, he outlines a perspective on ethics in which passion and desire correspond to different moral characters, behaviors, and worldviews. In conclusion, Schopenhauer defines his metaphysics of morals, employing Kant's transcendental idealism to illustrate both the inter-connectedness of being and the affinity of his ethics to Eastern thought.
Author : Richard Joyce
Release : 2007-08-24
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis The Evolution of Morality by : Richard Joyce
Download or read book The Evolution of Morality written by Richard Joyce. This book was released on 2007-08-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moral thinking pervades our practical lives, but where did this way of thinking come from, and what purpose does it serve? Is it to be explained by environmental pressures on our ancestors a million years ago, or is it a cultural invention of more recent origin? In The Evolution of Morality, Richard Joyce takes up these controversial questions, finding that the evidence supports an innate basis to human morality. As a moral philosopher, Joyce is interested in whether any implications follow from this hypothesis. Might the fact that the human brain has been biologically prepared by natural selection to engage in moral judgment serve in some sense to vindicate this way of thinking—staving off the threat of moral skepticism, or even undergirding some version of moral realism? Or if morality has an adaptive explanation in genetic terms—if it is, as Joyce writes, "just something that helped our ancestors make more babies"—might such an explanation actually undermine morality's central role in our lives? He carefully examines both the evolutionary "vindication of morality" and the evolutionary "debunking of morality," considering the skeptical view more seriously than have others who have treated the subject. Interdisciplinary and combining the latest results from the empirical sciences with philosophical discussion, The Evolution of Morality is one of the few books in this area written from the perspective of moral philosophy. Concise and without technical jargon, the arguments are rigorous but accessible to readers from different academic backgrounds. Joyce discusses complex issues in plain language while advocating subtle and sometimes radical views. The Evolution of Morality lays the philosophical foundations for further research into the biological understanding of human morality.
Author : Immanuel Kant
Release : 1949
Genre : Ethics
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Book Synopsis Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals by : Immanuel Kant
Download or read book Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals written by Immanuel Kant. This book was released on 1949. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
