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Ruling Passions A Theory of Practical Reasoning

Blackburn, Simon
Heftet / 2000 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780199241392
Publisert
2000
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
502 gr
Høyde
233 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Dybde
20 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
348

Forfatter
Blackburn, Simon

Om bidragsyterne

Simon Blackburn is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. Previously he was the Edna J. Koury Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Adjunct Professor at the Australian National University's Research School of Social Sciences. From 1969 to 1990 he was Fellow and Tutor of Philosophy at Pembroke College, Oxford. From 1984 to 1990 he edited the journal Mind.

Ruling Passions A Theory of Practical Reasoning

Blackburn, Simon
Heftet / 2000 / Engelsk
Blackburn, Simon
Heftet / 2000 / Engelsk
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Executed with Blackburn's characteristic witty eloquence, with stylish literary references and many examples

Mind

Blackburn brings an amplitude of implicit thought, and an appeal to general experience, which give his case an authoritative force and persuasion beyond its technical and detailed arguments

The Cambridge Quarterly

This book is that rare thing: a work of philosophy beautifully written, able to engage the interest of those outside a narrow sphere of academic specialists, while attending to philosophical problems that most worry those who spend their professional life trying to solve them

Ethics

Se alle

Blackburn's stimulating book makes a lively contribution. People interested in the issues it addresses will read it with profit

Samuel Scheffler, Times Literary Supplement

A fascinating book that seeks to clarify what we are doing when we make moral judgments

Philosophy

Ruling Passions gives us our humanity, providing some answers to those sceptics who find Kantian morality devoid of psychological realism

Alex Klaushoefer, Times Higher Education Supplement

Simon Blackburn puts forward a compelling original philosophy of human motivation and morality. He maintains that we cannot get clear about ethics until we get clear about human nature. So these are the sorts of questions he addresses: Why do we behave as we do? Can we improve? Is our ethics at war with our passions, or is it an upshot of those passions? Blackburn seeks the answers in an exploration of guilt, shame, disgust, and other moral emotions; he draws also on game theory and cognitive science in his account of the structures of human motivation. Many philosophers have wanted a naturalistic ethics a theory that integrates our understanding of human morality with the rest of our understanding of the world we live in. What is special about Blackburn's naturalistic ethics is that it does not debunk the ethical by reducing it to the non-ethical. At the same time he banishes the spectres of scepticism and relativism that have haunted recent moral philosophy. Ruling Passions sets ethics in the context of human nature: it offers a solution to the puzzle of how ethics can maintain its authority even though it is rooted in the very emotions and motivations that it exists to control.
Les mer
The author posits a philosophy of human motivation and morality in which he maintains that we cannot get clear about ethics until we get clear about human nature. He seeks the answers in an exploration of guilt, shame and other moral emotions, and draws on game theory and cognitive science
Les mer
Introduction ; 1. Organizing Practice: The Elements of Ethics ; 2. Things That Concern Us ; 3. The Ethical Proposition: What It Is Not ; 4. Naturalizing Norms ; 5. Looking Out For Yourself ; 6. Game Theory and Rational Actors ; 7. The Good, the Right, and the Common Point of View ; 8. Self-Control, Reason, and Freedom ; 9. Relativism, Subjectivism, Knowledge ; Appendix ; Bibliography ; Index
Les mer
`The author's arguments compel readers to make new distinctions, refine their thinking, and clarify remaining questions. This book is of immense value to scholars and advanced students of religious and philosophical ethics who seek a better grasp of historical and recent debates concerning the nature of moral agency and the status of moral claims' Diana Fritz Cates, Philosophy `Blackburn's stimulating book makes a lively contribution. People interested in the issues it addresses will read it with profit' Samuel Scheffler, Times Literary Supplement `This is a rich, erudite and wonderful book, written with lots of human warmth and a keen eye for philosophical hubris. The discussion is exceptional in the way it brings to life the adventure of ideas.' Robert Dunn, Australasian Journal of Philosophy Vol. 79
Les mer
The long-awaited paperback edition of a theory of ethics from a leading contemporary philosopher Blackburn is the author of the best-selling Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy and Think He has become one of the foremost exponents of philosophy to the general public More humane and positive than most contemporary philosophy Written in his characteristic witty, trenchant style Draws on game theory and cognitive science to illuminate ethics
Les mer
Simon Blackburn is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. Previously he was the Edna J. Koury Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Adjunct Professor at the Australian National University's Research School of Social Sciences. From 1969 to 1990 he was Fellow and Tutor of Philosophy at Pembroke College, Oxford. From 1984 to 1990 he edited the journal Mind.
Les mer
The long-awaited paperback edition of a theory of ethics from a leading contemporary philosopher Blackburn is the author of the best-selling Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy and Think He has become one of the foremost exponents of philosophy to the general public More humane and positive than most contemporary philosophy Written in his characteristic witty, trenchant style Draws on game theory and cognitive science to illuminate ethics
Les mer

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Executed with Blackburn's characteristic witty eloquence, with stylish literary references and many examples

Mind

Blackburn brings an amplitude of implicit thought, and an appeal to general experience, which give his case an authoritative force and persuasion beyond its technical and detailed arguments

The Cambridge Quarterly

This book is that rare thing: a work of philosophy beautifully written, able to engage the interest of those outside a narrow sphere of academic specialists, while attending to philosophical problems that most worry those who spend their professional life trying to solve them

Ethics

Se alle

Blackburn's stimulating book makes a lively contribution. People interested in the issues it addresses will read it with profit

Samuel Scheffler, Times Literary Supplement

A fascinating book that seeks to clarify what we are doing when we make moral judgments

Philosophy

Ruling Passions gives us our humanity, providing some answers to those sceptics who find Kantian morality devoid of psychological realism

Alex Klaushoefer, Times Higher Education Supplement

Simon Blackburn puts forward a compelling original philosophy of human motivation and morality. He maintains that we cannot get clear about ethics until we get clear about human nature. So these are the sorts of questions he addresses: Why do we behave as we do? Can we improve? Is our ethics at war with our passions, or is it an upshot of those passions? Blackburn seeks the answers in an exploration of guilt, shame, disgust, and other moral emotions; he draws also on game theory and cognitive science in his account of the structures of human motivation. Many philosophers have wanted a naturalistic ethics a theory that integrates our understanding of human morality with the rest of our understanding of the world we live in. What is special about Blackburn's naturalistic ethics is that it does not debunk the ethical by reducing it to the non-ethical. At the same time he banishes the spectres of scepticism and relativism that have haunted recent moral philosophy. Ruling Passions sets ethics in the context of human nature: it offers a solution to the puzzle of how ethics can maintain its authority even though it is rooted in the very emotions and motivations that it exists to control.
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The author posits a philosophy of human motivation and morality in which he maintains that we cannot get clear about ethics until we get clear about human nature. He seeks the answers in an exploration of guilt, shame and other moral emotions, and draws on game theory and cognitive science
Les mer
Introduction ; 1. Organizing Practice: The Elements of Ethics ; 2. Things That Concern Us ; 3. The Ethical Proposition: What It Is Not ; 4. Naturalizing Norms ; 5. Looking Out For Yourself ; 6. Game Theory and Rational Actors ; 7. The Good, the Right, and the Common Point of View ; 8. Self-Control, Reason, and Freedom ; 9. Relativism, Subjectivism, Knowledge ; Appendix ; Bibliography ; Index
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`The author's arguments compel readers to make new distinctions, refine their thinking, and clarify remaining questions. This book is of immense value to scholars and advanced students of religious and philosophical ethics who seek a better grasp of historical and recent debates concerning the nature of moral agency and the status of moral claims' Diana Fritz Cates, Philosophy `Blackburn's stimulating book makes a lively contribution. People interested in the issues it addresses will read it with profit' Samuel Scheffler, Times Literary Supplement `This is a rich, erudite and wonderful book, written with lots of human warmth and a keen eye for philosophical hubris. The discussion is exceptional in the way it brings to life the adventure of ideas.' Robert Dunn, Australasian Journal of Philosophy Vol. 79
Les mer
The long-awaited paperback edition of a theory of ethics from a leading contemporary philosopher Blackburn is the author of the best-selling Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy and Think He has become one of the foremost exponents of philosophy to the general public More humane and positive than most contemporary philosophy Written in his characteristic witty, trenchant style Draws on game theory and cognitive science to illuminate ethics
Les mer
Simon Blackburn is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. Previously he was the Edna J. Koury Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Adjunct Professor at the Australian National University's Research School of Social Sciences. From 1969 to 1990 he was Fellow and Tutor of Philosophy at Pembroke College, Oxford. From 1984 to 1990 he edited the journal Mind.
Les mer
The long-awaited paperback edition of a theory of ethics from a leading contemporary philosopher Blackburn is the author of the best-selling Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy and Think He has become one of the foremost exponents of philosophy to the general public More humane and positive than most contemporary philosophy Written in his characteristic witty, trenchant style Draws on game theory and cognitive science to illuminate ethics
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780199241392
Publisert
2000
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
502 gr
Høyde
233 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Dybde
20 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
348

Forfatter
Blackburn, Simon

Om bidragsyterne

Simon Blackburn is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. Previously he was the Edna J. Koury Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Adjunct Professor at the Australian National University's Research School of Social Sciences. From 1969 to 1990 he was Fellow and Tutor of Philosophy at Pembroke College, Oxford. From 1984 to 1990 he edited the journal Mind.

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