Reason and Responsibility: Readings in Some Basic Problems of PhilosophyJoel Feinberg, Russ Shafer-Landau The Tenth Edition of this leading, topically-organized anthology provides a superb balance of historical selections and recent material. The text covers reason and religious belief; human knowledge; mind and its place in nature; determinism; free will and responsibility; and morality and justice in five parts, with careful attention to opposing points of view. |
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... moral facts - just moral judgments and feelings , plus the social scientific facts just alluded to . This subjectivist strategy is precisely the same sort of strategy we use to debunk metaphysical commitments in other areas . We can ...
... moral facts - just moral judgments and feelings , plus the social scientific facts just alluded to . This subjectivist strategy is precisely the same sort of strategy we use to debunk metaphysical commitments in other areas . We can ...
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... morality and prudence . We can imagine someone claiming that living by some rule such as the follow- ing would better serve one's interests than follow- ing moral rules : " Follow the moral rules except when you believe ( or confidently ...
... morality and prudence . We can imagine someone claiming that living by some rule such as the follow- ing would better serve one's interests than follow- ing moral rules : " Follow the moral rules except when you believe ( or confidently ...
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... morality in the same way , or to the same degree , as the genuinely moral individual who is aware of the ( relative ) purity of his motives and the nature and depth of his commitment . Note that if this is so we have arrived at a ...
... morality in the same way , or to the same degree , as the genuinely moral individual who is aware of the ( relative ) purity of his motives and the nature and depth of his commitment . Note that if this is so we have arrived at a ...
Contents
The Existence and Nature of | 6 |
Rebellion from The Brothers Karamazov | 84 |
Pascals Wager Defended | 118 |
Copyright | |
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