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The Evolution of Communitarian Ideas
This book deals with three key questions about communitarian ideas: how to distinguish what constitutes communitarian thinking; what lessons to take from the historical development of communitarian arguments; and why their practical implications are relevant in devising reforms at the local, national, and global levels. Each chapter covers a distinct period, with a critical exposition of the leading thinkers of that time who contributed to communitarian philosophy and politics. Beginning with an examination of the rise of proto-communitarian ideas in classical Western and Eastern thought, the book closes with a review of communitarian responses to the emergent social and technological changes in the 21st century. Readers will learn about the core features and significance of communitarian theories and practices in relation to morality, education, the economy, freedom and security, community development, and democratic governance; and how they compare and contrast with other ethical and intellectual outlooks.
Communitarianism
Although communitarianism has a long history, it has only recently emerged to pose a major challenge to the traditional left-right divide in politics and the competing principles of individualism and collectivism. Communitarianism is the first comprehensive and accessible introduction to communitarianism's ideas and their implications for politics and citizenship. Drawing on a wide range of international examples and engaging with communitarianism's critics, Tam demonstrates clearly its relevance to the United States and the world.
Human Being and Morality in Ethics of Social Consequences
Explores issues concerning the moral agent and one's moral rights. Deals with issues related to fundamental moral values and principles of ethics of social consequences, making essential differences between ethical theory as a kind of non-utilitarian consequentialism and utilitarian forms of consequentialism. Explores moral values of humanity, legality, justice, responsibility, tolerance, moral duty.
The Aesthetics of the Mind, After Mallarmé
Devoted to focus the idea of poeisis like building that is subjected to precise conditions, like putting into practice resources of a particular kind, like playing with transparent images.
Essays on a Philosophical Interpretation of Justice
This is a coherent set of essays regarding the study of justice and it takes into consideration the needs and obligations of the individual as a member of society.
Why Blame the Organization?
If individual cooperation is the core of organizations, then why do people sometimes blame organizations instead of, or in addition to, the individuals in them? Through an examination of actual cases such as the pollution of the Prince William Sound, the disaster at the Love Canal, and soccer team misconduct, Raymond S. Pfeiffer offers a philosophical study in analytic pragmatism to clarify the meaning and logic of collective blame. Why Blame the Organization? attacks the myth that the nature of an organization or group is the key to understanding its moral responsibility.
The Mystery of Hope in the Philosophy of Gabriel Marcel, 1888-1973)
This study explores Marcel's understanding of hope as it relates to many categories, including: activity-act-life, anxiety-strangeness, availability-unavailability, being-having, captivity-trials, charity, communion-intersubjectivity, concrete philosophy, creativity, death, desire, despair, faith, prayer, sacrifice-suicide, and many others. In addition the book offers a spiritual biography of Marcel based on his two essays in autobiography, a bibliography of secondary material, and appendices which index Marcel's major passages on the themes described above.
A Study of the Complex and Disputed Philosophical Questions Surrounding Human Action
This study presents a dualist account of the nature of human action, dualist in a modest sense in that it defends the claim that actions involve the physical and the mental and cannot be interpreted in functionalist ways.
An Interpretation and Assessment of First-person Authority in the Writings of Philosopher Donald Davidson
In An Interpretation and Assessment of First-Person Authority in the Writings of Philosopher Donald Davidson, first-person authority is the thesis that subjects have a non-evidence-based form of epistemic warrant for self-ascriptions of psychological concepts that does not attach to a third-person evidence-based ascriptions of the same concepts.
