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Dostoevsky’s great novel The Brothers Karamazov is seen by many as being all about an exploration of the existence of God, so what made you choose it? Yes, this might seem an odd choice for a list of books about morality without God. Dostoevsky was a devout Christian and The Brothers Karamazov, his last and possibly greatest novel,was a heartfelt plea for the necessity of faith.
Kenan Malik on Morality Without God | The Browser
AC Grayling on Being Good
FiveBooks invites you to listen to the audio of this interview with AC Grayling, below: We’re considering, by way of five classic philosophical texts, the broad theme of “being good” – what it means to be good, how to be good, what is constitutive of the good agent in philosophy.
A BOOK IN PROGRESS [PART 9]: MARTIN LUTHER’S ACCIDENTAL REVOLUTION
Continuing the series of extracts from the book that I am writing on the history of moral thought, we have reached Chapter 10, which looks at the Renaissance and the Reformation and at the impact of both on moral philosophy.
A BOOK IN PROGRESS [PART 13]: NIETZSCHE, NIHILISM AND THE DEATH OF GOD
In the series of extracts from my almost-finished book on the history of moral thought , I have reached Chapter 14, which is devoted to the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. This extract is from the discussion of Nietzsche’s The Genealogy of Morals . Nietzsche trained as a philologist, not as a philosopher, and his writing is quite unlike traditional philosophical work, whether the dry, rigorous plodding of an Aristotle or a Kant, or the flights of sometimes barely-intelligible fancy that mark the work of a philosopher like Hegel and, later, Heidegger.
Evil, Ethics, and the Imagination: An Interview with Richard Kearney, Part I : The Other Journal
Evil, Ethics, and the Imagination: An Interview with Richard Kearney, Part I In this three-part interview, the illustrious Irish philosopher Richard Kearney explores the human experiences of evil.
Does moral theory create extremism?
Moral theory is what most moral philosophers spend our time doing. We try to clarify our moral intuitions about things like fairness, freedom, and responsibility and how they relate to each other. We do that by working them out as specific concepts which operate according to consistent and coherent rules (theory).by Massimo Pigliucci [This post is part of an ongoing series on ethics in which Massimo is exploring and trying to clarify his own ideas about what is right and wrong, and why he thinks so. Part I was on meta-ethics ; part II on consequentialism ; part III on deontology ; part IV on virtue ethics .]
Contractarianism
by Massimo Pigliucci [This post is part of an ongoing series on ethics in which Massimo is exploring and trying to clarify his own ideas about what is right and wrong, and why he thinks so.
Virtue ethics
by Massimo Pigliucci [This post is part of an ongoing series on ethics in which Massimo is exploring and trying to clarify his own ideas about what is right and wrong, and why he thinks so.
Deontology
by Massimo Pigliucci [This post is part of an ongoing series on ethics in which Massimo is exploring and trying to clarify his own ideas about what is right and wrong, and why he thinks so. Part I was on meta-ethics ]
Consequentialism
How did you first become interested in philosophy? I can remember as a very young child asking the question, "How does a baby learn to speak?"
Nigel Warburton on Introductions to Philosophy | The Browser
"Aha" says the Moral Philosopher triumphantly, polishing his monocle ferociously with a large handkerchief.
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