Best/Most Important Books in Ethics of the Past 200 Years
So with over 600 votes, here were the 'top ten':
1. Mill, Utilitarianism (Condorcet winner: wins contests with all other choices)
2. Rawls, A Theory of Justice loses to Mill, Utilitarianism by 247–229
3. Sidgwick, The Methods of Ethics loses to Mill, Utilitarianism by 312–149, loses to Rawls, A Theory of Justice by 313–146
4. Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality loses to Mill, Utilitarianism by 317–165, loses to Sidgwick, The Methods of Ethics by 221–210
5. Moore, Principia Ethica loses to Mill, Utilitarianism by 364–114, loses to Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality by 232–211
6. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil loses to Mill, Utilitarianism by 342–129, loses to Moore, Principia Ethica by 228–205
7. Marx, The 1844 Manuscripts loses to Mill, Utilitarianism by 356–111, loses to Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil by 209–176
8. Williams, Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy loses to Mill, Utilitarianism by 373–77, loses to Marx, The 1844 Manuscripts by 213–178
9. Hegel, Philosophy of Right loses to Mill, Utilitarianism by 347–105, loses to Williams, Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy by 187–185
10. Mackie, Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong loses to Mill, Utilitarianism by 378–60, loses to Hegel, Philosophy of Right by 194–169
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Merleau-Ponty - Sensible Objects English Subtitles - YouTube | Continental Philosophy - 1 views
"Plunderous" Plato - 0 views
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"Plato circa 427-347 B.C.E. Nationality: Athenian Group Alliances: "Angry" Ancients "Rabid" Realists "Ragin'" Rationalists AKA: Sado-Plato Play-Doh® Plato the Great-o Plato Never Late-o Plato Makes Ya Wait-o Plato Ya Love to Hate-o Plato Seals Yer Fate-o Plato Puts Ya in a Crate-o Plato Ships Ya Freight-o Plato The Pain Will Not Abate-o Plat-OH NO! Powers: talented dramatist, invulnerable skin Weaknesses: his mentor was executed early in Plato's career, leaving him to come up with some pretty weird stuff on his own Notes: Comes with Plato's Guide to Shadow Puppets: step-by-step instructions on how to make fun and convincing animal shapes with nothing more than your hands and a bright light! This fully-illustrated booklet includes Bunny, Dog, Bird, and Many-Headed Beast. Plato figures are left unpainted, in deference to the popularly held notion that classical statuary was white rather than flamboyantly, gaily colored (notice the intimidatingly creepy empty-eye effect this creates). "
Slavoj Žižek · Bring me my Philips Mental Jacket: Improve Your Performance! ·... - 1 views
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"Slavoj Žižek welcomes the prospect of biogenetic intervention Do we today have an available bioethics? Yes, we do, a bad one: what the Germans call Bindestrich-Ethik, or 'hyphen-ethics', where what gets lost in the hyphenation is ethics as such. The problem is not that a universal ethics is being dissolved into a multitude of specialised ones (bioethics, business ethics, medical ethics and so on) but that particular scientific breakthroughs are immediately set against humanist 'values', leading to complaints that biogenetics, for example, threatens our sense of dignity and autonomy. The main consequence of the current breakthroughs in biogenetics is that natural organisms have become objects open to manipulation. Nature, human and inhuman, is 'desubstantialised', deprived of its impenetrable density, of what Heidegger called 'earth'. If biogenetics is able to reduce the human psyche to an object of manipulation, it is evidence of what Heidegger perceived as the 'danger' inherent in modern technology. By reducing a human being to a natural object whose properties can be altered, what we lose is not (only) humanity but nature itself. In this sense, Francis Fukuyama is right in Our Posthuman Future: the notion of humanity relies on the belief that we possess an inherited 'human nature', that we are born with an unfathomable dimension of ourselves.[*]"
EpistemeLinks: For Philosophy Resources on the Internet - 1 views
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"EpistemeLinks includes over 19,000 categorized links to philosophy resources on the Internet and has several additional features. Online since early 1997, this site is free to use, and doesn't require user registration of any kind. Begin browsing the site by using the Philosophers or Topics links below, or by using the link category or special feature links below."
TPM: The Philosophers' Magazine | David Hume's impact on causation - 1 views
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"Hume's account of causation has a good claim to being one of the most influential views in the history of philosophy. It not only set much of the agenda for large swathes of analytic philosophy in the 20th century and beyond, but it also awoke Immanuel Kant from his "dogmatic slumber" - as he put it in his Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics - and prompted him to write the mighty Critique of Pure Reason, itself a hugely influential work and arguably the starting-point for the continental tradition in philosophy."
The Beginning of Infinity - By David Deutsch - Book Review - NYTimes.com - 1 views
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"David Deutsch's "Beginning of Infinity" is a brilliant and exhilarating and profoundly eccentric book. It's about everything: art, science, philosophy, history, politics, evil, death, the future, infinity, bugs, thumbs, what have you. And the business of giving it anything like the attention it deserves, in the small space allotted here, is out of the question. But I will do what I can. "
Redefining Reality: Psychology, Science and Solipsism | Psychology Today - 1 views
How Computational Complexity Will Revolutionise Philosophy - Technology Review - 0 views
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The theory of computation has had a profound influence on philosophical thinking. But computational complexity theory is about to have an even bigger effect, argues one computer scientist
Morality tale - FT.com - 0 views
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A long-awaited work by Derek Parfit attempts to reconcile opposing ethical theories
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