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434 books match the query 'Ethics & Moral Philosophy' and 5 start with g

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Gender Thinking

Steven G. Smith

Temple University Press, 1992

How can we accept the gender system in view of its ills? Yet, are we really at liberty to abolish gender differences, "when the gender system gives us benchmarks of personal identity and worth along with primary channels in which to pursue the rewards of love?" With this double question, Steven G. Smith introduces his inquiry into the idea of gender and how it is implicated in love, respect, equality, and personal character. Gender Thinking is the first comprehensive philosophical exploration of the concept of gender Asking the question, what is gender?—that is, what sort of thing do we take femininity and masculinity to be?—Smith considers how gender thinking is interwoven with ideas about human nature. He suggests ways in which ideas about race, class, culture age, temperament, and sexual orientation can be understood from clues found in gender thinking. And he calls for a renegotiated procreative partnership between women and men as the key to the redemption of gender.

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Getting It Right

Language, Literature, and Ethics

Geoffrey Galt Harpham

University of Chicago Press, 1992

In a critical scene deeply troubled by questions of justice and responsibility, and beset by political and moral scandals, no issue in recent years has been more urgent or more unsettled than the question of ethics. Geoffrey Galt Harpham, whose previous book, The Ascetic Imperative in Culture and Criticism, was one of the first to announce the critical renewal of ethics, attempts in this new book to explain why ethical questions resist settlement. He urges a new account of ethics not as a stable set of principles, values, or prescriptions, but as a variable factor of "imperativity" immanent in language, analysis, narrative, and creation.
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Gewirth's Ethical Rationalism

Critical Essays with a Reply by Alan Gewirth

Edited by Edward Regis Jr.

University of Chicago Press, 1984

Alan Gewirth's Reason and Morality directed philosophical attention to the possibility of presenting a rational and rigorous demonstration of fundamental moral principles. Now, these previously unpublished essays from some of the most distinguished philosophers of our generation subject Gewirth's program to thorough evaluation and assessment. In a tour de force of philosophical analysis, Professor Gewirth provides detailed replies to all of his critics—a major, genuinely clarifying essay of intrinsic philosophical interest.
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God and the Natural Law

Reading of Thomas Aquinas

Fulvio Di Blasi

St. Augustine's Press, 2006

It seems that to retain credibility in a post-Kantian and analytic world, contemporary natural law theory has tried to show its independence both from God and from human nature. But can there be a natural-law theory without the “natural” – not grounded in facts of nature – and without “law” – not in need of a Legislator? In God and the Natural Law, Fulvio Di
Blasi begins with an original analysis of the current debate in ethics, jurisprudence, and politics in order to set the stage for a sound understanding of the concept of natural law. This leads to the heart of the book: a recovery of the authentic meaning of the two main concepts of classical natural-law theory as synthesized by Thomas Aquinas – the will of God and the order of nature.
 
The wide revival of practical philosophy and ethics of objective-values in recent decades has involved a robust rediscovery of classical natural-law theory. This rediscovery is marked by two main traits: an emphasis on the autonomy of practical reason (as a reaction to modern voluntarism centered on the external will of the legislator); and an emphasis on the originality of practical reason (as a reaction to the idea of a rational deduction of
moral truths from the facts of nature). Without denying an autonomous character to ethics, or the need for a strong critique of moral rationalism, Di Blasi argues that Aquinas’s thought remains unintelligible if we remove from it either God or the metaphysical understanding of
nature.
 
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Good and Evil Actions

A Journey through Saint Thomas Aquinas

Steven J. Jensen

Catholic University of America Press, 2010

In Good and Evil Actions, Steven J. Jensen navigates a path through the debate, retrieving what is of value from each interpretation
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