Are there key respects in which character and character defects are voluntary? Can agents with serious vices be rational agents? Jonathan Jacobs answers in the affirmative. Moral character is shaped through voluntary habits, including the ways we habituate ourselves, Jacobs believes. Just as individuals can voluntarily lead unhappy lives without making unhappiness an end, so can they degrade their ethical characters through voluntary action that does not have establishment of vice as its end. Choosing Character presents an account of ethical disability, expanding the domain of responsibility...
Are there key respects in which character and character defects are voluntary? Can agents with serious vices be rational agents? Jonathan Jacobs answe...
This book is a valuable guide to ethical issues and the language, concepts, and positions central to ethical theorizing. Entries identify and explain complex issues of normative ethics, metaethics, and moral psychology without being technical. Clearly written, entries range from antiquity to the present, and from the basic to the more advanced. Extensive cross-references allow the reader easily to make and follow connections and pursue issues. Topics include Aristotle, virtue-centered theory, eudaimonism, hedonism, Bentham, naturalism, utilitarianism, and supervenience. The cross-references...
This book is a valuable guide to ethical issues and the language, concepts, and positions central to ethical theorizing. Entries identify and explain ...
I have written this play and these poems for countless reasons. May it serve as a guide to the direction less and as a companion to all of those who suffered the same feelings as I had. Academics who are unique and struggling to fit into the modern mould ideally will treasure "Wildest Dreams of a Chandelier Mansion" as though my story is also their own. Undoubtedly, the story is my finest brainstorming about older days coming led with the painful concessions of modernity. This play should provide an intense enjoyment. Truly I champion the cause of students who are impressionable. May they...
I have written this play and these poems for countless reasons. May it serve as a guide to the direction less and as a companion to all of those who s...
The enormous financial cost of criminal justice has motivated increased scrutiny and recognition of the need for constructive change, but what of the ethical costs of current practices and policies? Moreover, if we seriously value the principles of liberal democracy then there is no question that the ethics of criminal justice are everybody s business, concerns for the entire society. "The Routledge Handbook of Criminal Justice Ethics" brings together international scholars to explore the most significant ethical issues throughout their many areas of expertise, anchoring their discussions...
The enormous financial cost of criminal justice has motivated increased scrutiny and recognition of the need for constructive change, but what of t...
