[PDF] Explaining Right And Wrong eBook

Author : Benjamin Sachs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 14,19 MB
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1351392077

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Explaining Right and Wrong aims to shake the foundations of contemporary ethics by showing that moral philosophers have been deploying a mistaken methodology in their efforts to figure out the truth about what we morally ought to do. Benjamin Sachs argues that moral theorizing makes sense only if it is conceived of as an explanatory project and carried out accordingly. The book goes on to show that the most prominent forms of moral monism—consequentialism, Kantianism, and contractarianism/contractualism—as well as Rossian pluralism, each face devastating explanatory objections. It offers in place of these flawed options a brand-new family of normative ethical theories, non-Rossian pluralism. It then argues that the best kind of non-Rossian pluralism will be spare; in particular, it will deny that an action can be wrong in virtue of constituting a failure to distribute welfare in a particular way or that an action can be wrong in virtue of constituting a failure to rescue. Furthermore, it also aims to show that a great deal of contemporary writing on the distribution of health care resources in cases of scarcity is targeted at questions that either have no answers at all or none that ordinary moral theorizing can uncover.

Author : Wendell Wallach
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,79 MB
Release : 2010-07-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0199737975

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"Moral Machines is a fine introduction to the emerging field of robot ethics. There is much here that will interest ethicists, philosophers, cognitive scientists, and roboticists." ---Peter Danielson, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews --

Author : Kieran Setiya
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 30,37 MB
Release : 2012-11-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199657459

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Can we have objective knowledge of right and wrong, of how we should live and what there is reason to do? Can it be anything but luck when our beliefs are true? Kieran Setiya confronts these questions in their most compelling and articulate forms, and argues that if there is objective ethical knowledge, human nature is its source.

Author : Lisa O Engelhardt
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 20,52 MB
Release : 2014-10-21
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1497693004

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Kids aren’t born knowing right from wrong. But, somehow, over the years, we hope to help them become caring, responsible, respectful adults. This practical how-to book for kids is an invaluable tool in guiding children on the journey of moral development. Through concrete language and interactive examples, it addresses such topics as honesty, peer pressure, and how to tell right from wrong. Even more, it shows kids how to go beyond doing right to doing good.

Author : Bernard Mayo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 15,23 MB
Release : 2021-05-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 100005599X

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Trying to understand morality involves grappling with seemingly irreconcilable conflicts between opposing theoretical positions. Originally published in 1986, this book offers a solution in terms of natural law, which involves reflections on the relevant aspects of human nature and the human condition, as well as on the special nature of prescriptive language. It also discusses several major movements in moral philosophy, both classical and contemporary and examines them in the light of a set of tests for an adequate moral theory.

Author : Cecilia Wainryb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 33,70 MB
Release : 2014-03-20
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 110702630X

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This book illuminates the conversations that parents and children have about right and wrong, and how these conversations affect children's moral development.

Author : Donald Black
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 45,15 MB
Release : 2014-05-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 148326064X

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The Social Structure of Right and Wrong focuses on formulations that predict and explain the nature of social control throughout the world and across history. The publication first offers information on social control as a dependent variable, crime as a social control, and compensation and the social structure of misfortune. Discussions focus on the theory of compensation, traditional self-help, concept of social control, varieties of normative behavior, models of social control, and quantity of normative variation. The text then elaborates on social control of the self and elementary forms of conflict management. The manuscript takes a look at the theory of third party and on taking sides, including legal, latent, and slow partisanship, social gravitation, models of partisanship, settlement roles, partisanship in tribal societies, and typology of third parties. The text then examines the factors involved in making enemies, as well as social repulsion, moral evolution, and third-party and unilateral moralism. The publication is a dependable source of data for sociologists and researchers interested in the social structure of right and wrong.