...This chapter argues that when constructing a Deleuzian moral philosophy, it will be important to keep in mind the negative aspects of this strong relation drawn between Deleuze's critique of identity, his division of death into two, and his demonstrations that it is only death as impersonal...

... on the value of community, among other things, is supportive of this inclination to love. African moral philosophy allows us to understand community itself as something that is constituted or founded upon expressions of love and empathy. economic and social rights vulnerability love Weil Simone human...

... Bouwsma William misanthropy pessimism Bett Richard Wilson Edward O evolution naturalism Shakespeare Moral Philosophy Virtue Ethics Thomas Aquinas Stoicism Scepticism Montaigne Epicurus Lucretius Machiavelli In this chapter, I aim to provide a broad overview of the sorts of thinking about...

... Joseph Shakespeare Shakespeare Criticism Moral Philosophy Elizabeth Griffith William Hazlitt Arthur Temple Cadoux Alfred Harbage John Vyvyan Roland Mushat Frye Richard G. Moulton Postmodern criticism, with its propensity to reduce all ideas to ideology in the service of power, has had precious...

..., for the latter argues that the demand ‘that every man must cultivate and preserve sociability so far as he can’ is that to which all the duties are subordinate. The main lines of thinking in Turnbull's Principles of Moral Philosophy and Christian Philosophy are reviewed...

... Isabelle action history ‘man’ politics reading interpretation Anthropocene anthropogenesis humanisation eschato teleological situation life the living zoopolitics moral philosophy philosophical ethology speculation deconstruction animality animal studies animal ethics The relations between...

... Nasser Gamal Abdel Internalism Othman Amin Introspection Spiritual Life Moral Philosophy Philosophy is the spiritual contemplation of the meaning of this human life so that a person attains awareness of himself, or his ‘I-ness’ and seeks [to discover] the fundamental principles of ethics...

...This chapter explores how Ferguson used the moral philosophy of chapter 3, based on the moral science of chapter 2, to create a system of education for the rising Scottish middle class. It examines his notion of active pedagogy and his use of stoic and Christian ideas to create a cadre of well...

... Enlightenment man and uomo universale. The purpose of this book is to further the understanding of Lord Kames's thought, his thought processes, his lines of argument, and, most importantly, his conceptual connections of the areas of aesthetics, moral philosophy, social theory (including...

... Hutchesonian moral sense theory that led him to define justice as he did. Hume David justice property right Ulpian contract equity human nature moral sense moral sentiments Reid Thomas Smith Adam Carmichael Gershom duty Heineccius Johann Gottlieb jurisprudence moral philosophy discipline...

... that Bain perpetuated a different current of thought in the Scottish philosophical tradition, one that owed more to Hume’s associationist psychology than to Reid’s Common Sense. The chapter examines the importance of this difference for the study and teaching of moral philosophy in the light of Bain’s...

... Shakespeare Literary Theory Literary Criticism Character Moral Philosophy Morality Ethics Cognition Jonathan Haidt Moral Foundations Theory Shakespeare’s Moral Compass is an attempt to uncover and define the moral framework that binds and blinds the characters of the most famous...

... cognition DiLorenzo Thomas Hall Joseph Kahneman Daniel value pluralism Hauser Marc universality Shakespeare Literary Theory Moral Philosophy Morality Jonathan Haidt Moral Foundations Theory Thomas Sowell E.O. Wilson Charles Darwin David Sloan Wilson ‘Before Kingdoms change, men must change...

... Moral Philosophy Morality Moral Compass Ethics Freedom ‘There is always a choice’: ¹ John Vyvyan’s maxim has been a consistent refrain in my consideration of Shakespeare’s moral compass in Part II of this book. In Chapters 5–10 , I have found that the plays emphasise individual free...

... political theory to resolve political questions, on the one hand, into questions of moral philosophy or, on the other, into questions of cultural convention. Each of these alternatives risks losing contact with the phenomenal terrain of politics itself, and therefore of losing the ability to deal profitably...

... ignored party questions and party combinations. The Professor of Moral Philosophy at Marischal was approaching retirement, and Blackie had considered putting himself forward as a candidate. He was dissuaded by the Principal because of doubts about his religious views, and he decided to pursue his academic...

...This chapter elaborates the posthumous reputation for Adam Smith as a hammer of the French Revolution. Smith's policy advice shows him to be no friend of the American colonies. But in other respects, his moral philosophy and economic theory was to be of great help to them. The Navigation Acts had...

...This chapter examines the influence of Adam Smith's jurisprudence on legal education in Scotland. By the middle years of the eighteenth century, natural law thinking had come to dominate the moral philosophy curriculum in the University of Edinburgh and the University of Glasgow. Of primary...