Könyv Morality for Humans Mark Johnson

Morality for Humans

Ethical Understanding from the Perspective of Cognitive Science

Szerző: Mark Johnson
Nyelv: Angol
Kötés: Kemény kötésű
Elérhetőség: Beszállítói készleten
Küldés 14-20 napon belül
37 668 Ft
What is the difference between right and wrong? This is no easy question to answer, yet we constantl...

Információk a könyvről

Szerző
Nyelv
Angol
Kötés
Könyv - Kemény kötésű
Kiadva
2014
oldal
280
EAN
9780226113401
ISBN
022611340X
Enbook ID
02572555
Súly
572
Méretek
162 x 238 x 25

Teljes leírás

What is the difference between right and wrong? This is no easy question to answer, yet we constantly try to make it so, frequently appealing to some hidden cache of cut-and-dried absolutes, whether drawn from God, universal reason, or societal authority. Combining cognitive science with a pragmatist philosophical framework in Morality for Humans: Ethical Understanding from the Perspective of Cognitive Science, Mark Johnson argues that appealing solely to absolute principles and values is not only scientifically unsound but even morally suspect. He shows that the standards for the kinds of person we should be and how we should treat one another-which we often think of as universal-are in fact frequently subject to change. And we should be okay with that. Taking context into consideration, he offers a remarkably nuanced, naturalistic view of ethics that sees us creatively adapt our standards according to given needs, emerging problems, and social interactions. Ethical naturalism is not just a revamped form of relativism. Indeed, Johnson attempts to overcome the absolutist-versus-relativist impasse that has been one of the most intractable problems in the history of philosophy. He does so through a careful and inclusive look at the many ways we reason about right and wrong. Much of our moral thought, he shows, is automatic and intuitive, gut feelings that we follow up and attempt to justify with rational analysis and argument. However, good moral deliberation is not limited merely to intuitive judgments supported after the fact by reasoning. Johnson points out a crucial third element: we imagine how our decisions will play out, how we or the world would change with each action we might take. Plumbing this imaginative dimension of moral reasoning, he provides a psychologically sophisticated view of moral problem solving, one perfectly suited for the embodied, culturally embedded, and ever-developing human creatures that we are.

Érdekelheti

Nominal Classification in Asia and Oceania

Allassonniere-Tang Marc Allassonniere-Tang
44 223 Ft
9 644 Ft
7 044 Ft

Break When I'm Dead

Douglas Esper
7 471 Ft
21 617 Ft

Smith's Monthly #2

Dean Wesley Smith
4 813 Ft
69 424 Ft
7 146 Ft
1 866 Ft

Body Care

Becky S. Bennett
5 971 Ft
27 321 Ft

Azok a vásárlók, akik ezt a könyvet megvásárolták, a következőket is megvásárolták

5 067 Ft
4 506 Ft
42 513 Ft

Do?a perfecta

Benito Perez Galdos
3 161 Ft

Blue Line 4

Frank Haß
5 690 Ft