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For centuries, certain moral philosophers have maintained that morality is an illusion, comparable to talking of ghosts or unicorns. These moral skeptics claim that the world simply doesn't contain the sort of properties (such as moral badness, moral obligation, etc.) necessary to render moral statements true. Even seemingly obvious moral claims, such as "killing innocents is morally wrong" fail to be true. What would lead someone to adopt such a radical viewpoint? Are the arguments in its favor defensible or plausible? What impact would embracing such a view have on one's practical life? Taking as its point of departure the work of moral philosopher John Mackie (1917-1981), A World Without Values is a collection of essays on moral skepticism by leading contemporary philosophers, some of whom are sympathetic to Mackie's views, some of whom are opposed. Rather than treating moral skepticism as something to dismiss as quickly as possible, this anthology is a comprehensive exploration of the topic, and as such will be a valuable resource for students of moral philosophy at all levels, as well as professionals in the field of meta-ethics. A World Without Values presents state-of-the-art arguments that advance the ongoing philosophical debate on several fronts, and will enjoy an important place on any meta-ethicist's bookshelf for some years to come.

Philosophy. --- Ethics. --- Philosophy (General). --- Morale --- Ethics, Modern --- Nihilism (Philosophy) --- Mackie, J. L. --- Nihilism (Philosophy). --- Philosophy --- Mackie, John Leslie

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Many debates about the moral status of things for example, debates about the natural rights of human fetuses or nonhuman animals eventually migrate towards a discussion of the capacities of the things in question for example, their capacities to feel pain, think, or love. Yet the move towards capacities is often controversial: if a human's capacities are the basis of its moral status, how could a human having lesser capacities than you and I have the same "serious" moral status as you and I? This book answers this question by arguing that if something is human, it has a set of typical human capacities; that if something has a set of typical human capacities, it has serious moral status; and thus all human beings have the same sort of serious moral status as you and I. Beginning from what our common intuitions tell us about situations involving "temporary incapacitation" where a human organism has, then loses, then regains a certain capacity this book argues for substantive conclusions regarding human fetuses and embryos, humans in a permanent vegetative state, humans suffering from brain diseases, and humans born with genetic disorders. Since these conclusions must have some impact on our ongoing moral and political debates about the proper treatment of such humans, this book will be useful to professionals and students in philosophy, bioethics, law, medicine, and public policy.

Philosophy. --- Ethics. --- Theory of Medicine/Bioethics. --- Philosophy of Medicine. --- Philosophy of Mind. --- Public Health. --- Philosophy (General). --- Ethics. --- medicine --- Philosophy of mind. --- Public health. --- Medical ethics. --- Morale --- Philosophie de l'esprit --- Santé publique --- Ethique médicale --- Philosophy.

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This book has two main goals. The first is to give an account, called Variabilism, of the moral significance of merely possible persons persons who, relative to a particular circumstance, or possible future or world, could but in fact never do exist. The second is to use Variabilism to illuminate abortion. According to Variabilism, merely possible persons just like anyone else matter morally but matter variably. Where we understand that a person incurs a loss whenever agents could have created more wellbeing for that person and instead create less, Variabilism asserts that the moral significance of any loss is a function of where that loss is incurred in relation to the person who incurs it. That is: a loss incurred at a world where the person who incurs that loss does or will exist has full more significance, according to Variabilism, while a loss incurred by that same person at a world where that person never exists at all has no moral significance whatsoever. Some other views deem all merely possible persons and all of their losses to matter morally. Still other views deem no merely possible persons and none of their losses to matter morally. Variabilism, instead, takes a middle ground between these two extreme positions. It thus opens the door to a certain middle ground on procreative choice in general and abortion in particular. Thus, given that, for persons, thinking and coming into existence come together, Variabilism supports the argument that the early abortion is ordinarily permissible when it is what the woman wants. That is so, since the loss incurred when, as an effect of the early abortion, a given person is never brought into existence to begin with has no moral significance at all. In contrast, the late abortion is ordinarily subject to a different analysis. For the loss incurred in that case has full moral significance, according to Variabilism, since it is incurred at a world where the person who incurs it already exists.

Philosophy. --- Ethics. --- Theory of Medicine/Bioethics. --- Constitutional Law. --- Medical Law. --- Law Theory/Law Philosophy. --- Philosophy of Medicine. --- Philosophy (General). --- Ethics. --- medicine --- Medical ethics. --- Law --- Public health laws. --- Constitutional law. --- Morale --- Ethique médicale --- Droit --- Santé publique --- Droit constitutionnel --- Philosophy. --- Philosophy. --- Philosophie --- Droit

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Het boek:Voor Chris Van Dam is coachen een zeer eenvoudig en uitdagend proces. Hij combineert de sterktes van het gestaltdenken met oplossingsgericht werken en onderstreept het belang van het werken met 'De Spiegel'. Deze metafoor verwijst naar de zin van zelfreflectie van de coach.De theoretische kaders waarvan gebruik wordt gemaakt, worden heel helder in hun essentie beschreven en daarnaast reikt de auteur enkele tools aan ter inspiratie. Het geheel wordt duidelijk geïllustreerd met praktijkervaringen uit de non-profitsector waardoor dit boek in de eerste plaats een praktijkboek is dat zich heel aangenaam laat lezen.Dit boek is bestemd voor teamleiders, afdelingshoofden, externe coaches,... maar ook voor cursisten die in opleiding zijn en het (team)coachen onder de knie willen krijgen.(http://www.academiapress.be)

Accomplissement de soi (Psychologie) --- Actualización de sí mismo (Psicología) --- Développement personnel (Psychologie) --- Growth [Personal ] --- Personal growth --- Plénitude (Morale) --- Réalisation de soi (Psychologie) --- Réalisation de soi -- Méthodes --- Réalisation personnelle (Psychologie) --- Self-actualization (Psychology) --- Self-improvement --- Self-realization (Psychology) --- Zelfactualisering (Psychologie) --- Zelfrealisatie (Psychologie) --- Épanouissement de soi (Psychologie) --- Coaching ; management --- Coaching --- Managementvaardigheden --- Non-profitsector --- 366.41 --- Leidinggeven --- Management. --- Handbooks, manuals, etc. --- Personal coaching --- Leadership --- Oplossingsgericht werken --- Teambegeleiding --- Teamontwikkeling --- Sociology of work --- Labour market

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Although the creative impulse surges in revolt against everyday reality, breaking through its confines, it makes pacts with that reality’s essential laws and returns to it to modulate its sense. In fact, it is through praxis that imagination and artistic inventiveness transmute the vital concerns of life, giving them human measure. But at the same time art’s inspiration imbues life with aesthetic sense, which lifts human experience to the spiritual. Within these two perspectives art launches messages of specifically human inner propulsions, strivings, ideals, nostalgia, yearnings prosaic and poetic, profane and sacral, practical and ideal, while standing at the fragile borderline of everydayness and imaginative adventure. Art’s creative perduring constructs are intentional marks of the aesthetic significance attributed to the flux of human life and reflect the human quest for repose. They mediate communication and participation in spirit and sustain the relative continuity of culture and history.

Philosophy. --- Phenomenology. --- Ethics. --- Metaphysics. --- Philosophy of Man. --- Aesthetics. --- Philosophy (General). --- Esthétique --- Morale --- Métaphysique --- Phénoménologie --- Philosophie --- Husserl, Edmund, --- Art --- Inspiration in art --- Techne (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- Aesthetics -- Congresses. --- Ethics -- Congresses. --- Metaphysics -- Congresses. --- Phenomenology -- Congresses. --- Philosophy -- Congresses. --- Philosophy & Religion --- Visual Arts --- Visual Arts - General --- Art, Architecture & Applied Arts --- Art. --- Architecture. --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art, Occidental --- Art, Visual --- Art, Western (Western countries) --- Arts, Fine --- Arts, Visual --- Fine arts --- Iconography --- Occidental art --- Visual arts --- Western art (Western countries) --- Design and construction --- Philosophy, general. --- Building --- Arts --- Aesthetics --- Phenomenology . --- Deontology --- Ethics, Primitive --- Ethology --- Moral philosophy --- Morality --- Morals --- Philosophy, Moral --- Science, Moral --- Values --- Philosophy, Modern --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- God --- Ontology --- Philosophy of mind --- Beautiful, The --- Beauty --- Esthetics --- Taste (Aesthetics) --- Criticism --- Literature --- Proportion --- Symmetry --- Psychology --- Radio broadcasting Aesthetics --- Husserl, Edmund, - 1859-1938.