A World Without Values
Title | A World Without Values PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Joyce |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | 254 |
Release | 2009-12-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9048133394 |
What kind of properties are moral qualities, such as rightness, badness, etc? Some ethicists doubt that there are any such properties; they maintain that thinking that something is morally wrong (for example) is comparable to thinking that something is a unicorn or a ghost. These "moral error theorists" argue that the world simply does not contain the kind of properties or objects necessary to render our moral judgments true. This radical form of moral skepticism was championed by the philosopher John Mackie (1917-1981). This anthology is a collection of philosophical essays critically examining Mackie’s view.
Law Without Values
Title | Law Without Values PDF eBook |
Author | Albert W. Alschuler |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | 340 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780226015217 |
Albert Alschuler's study of Holmes is very different from other books about him, in that it is an exercise in debunking him.
The Moral Landscape
Title | The Moral Landscape PDF eBook |
Author | Sam Harris |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 322 |
Release | 2011-09-13 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 143917122X |
Sam Harris dismantles the most common justification for religious faith--that a moral system cannot be based on science.
What Money Can't Buy
Title | What Money Can't Buy PDF eBook |
Author | Michael J. Sandel |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | 256 |
Release | 2012-04-24 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1429942584 |
Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we allow corporations to pay for the right to pollute the atmosphere? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars? Auctioning admission to elite universities? Selling citizenship to immigrants willing to pay? In What Money Can't Buy, Michael J. Sandel takes on one of the biggest ethical questions of our time: Is there something wrong with a world in which everything is for sale? If so, how can we prevent market values from reaching into spheres of life where they don't belong? What are the moral limits of markets? In recent decades, market values have crowded out nonmarket norms in almost every aspect of life—medicine, education, government, law, art, sports, even family life and personal relations. Without quite realizing it, Sandel argues, we have drifted from having a market economy to being a market society. Is this where we want to be?In his New York Times bestseller Justice, Sandel showed himself to be a master at illuminating, with clarity and verve, the hard moral questions we confront in our everyday lives. Now, in What Money Can't Buy, he provokes an essential discussion that we, in our market-driven age, need to have: What is the proper role of markets in a democratic society—and how can we protect the moral and civic goods that markets don't honor and that money can't buy?
A World Without Values
Title | A World Without Values PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Joyce |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 264 |
Release | 2010-04-18 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9789048133710 |
The Book of Values. An Inspirational Guide to Our Moral Dilemmas
Title | The Book of Values. An Inspirational Guide to Our Moral Dilemmas PDF eBook |
Author | Yael Eylat-Tanaka |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9788835415879 |
Viable Values
Title | Viable Values PDF eBook |
Author | Tara Smith |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages | 215 |
Release | 2000-01-12 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1442211911 |
Viable Values examines the most basic foundations of value and morality, demonstrating the shortcomings of major traditional views and proposing that morality is grounded in the objective requirements of human life. Smith argues that human beings need to be moral in order to live, explaining how life is the standard of morality, how flourishing is the proper end and reward of living morally, and how an intelligent egoism is the path to flourishing.