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Free Download Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morality: An Introduction by Lawrence J. Hatab
English | 2008 | ISBN: 0521697700 | 292 Pages | PDF | 1.2 MB
Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morality is a forceful, perplexing, important book, radical in its own time and profoundly influential ever since.

Free Download Rex Welshon, "Nietzsche’s On The Genealogy of Morality: A Guide "
English | ISBN: 0197611818 | 2023 | 290 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 13 MB

Free Download Matthew M. Hollander, "Morality in the Making of Sense and Self: Stanley Milgram’s Obedience Experiments and the New Science of Morality"
English | ISBN: 0190096047 | 2023 | 264 pages | PDF | 12 MB

Free Download Commonsense Darwinism: Evolution, Morality, and the Human Condition by John Lemos
English | November 4, 2008 | ISBN: 0812696328 | True EPUB | 288 pages | 0.5 MB
Written in a simple, accessible style, Commonsense Darwinism offers a clear, critical examination of the subject. Assuming that the diversity of life, including human beings, is the result of evolution from common origins and that its driving force is natural selection, the book explores what this might mean for issues in ethics, philosophy of religion, epistemology, and metaphysics. The author’s defense of free will makes this an especially stimulating read.

Free Download Understanding Morality by Wayne Gustave Johnson
English | February 4, 2022 | ISBN: 1666721328 | 216 pages | PDF | 4.61 Mb
This book explains why moral systems necessarily develop and why they take the various forms that they do. Johnson argues that moral systems are best understood as attempts both to seek out ways of living a fulfilling human life and also to find ways of relating to others who also seek a fulfilling life. Philosophers generally agree that the moral pathway is also the fulfilling pathway. However, the moral pathways advocated and the kind of fulfillments envisioned depend upon beliefs about human nature as well as beliefs about the ultimate nature of things-a worldview. Aristotle, Epicurus, Saint Augustine, and Friedrich Nietzsche, for instance, had radically varying views about what constitutes a fulfilling life. Johnson argues that the moral quest involves properly arbitrating among the often competing wants, needs, and desires pursued by human beings. Not all such wants, needs, and desires can be fulfilled; some must necessarily go unfulfilled. This implies that a vast number of human choices are moral choices. For instance, who eats and who does not? Johnson gives no moral advice. His aim is to show the reader the nature of the moral choices they necessarily make.

Free Download Morality, authority, and law By Darwall, Stephen L
2014 | 209 Pages | ISBN: 0199662592 | PDF | 2 MB
Stephen Darwall presents a series of essays that explore and extend the Second-Person Standpoints argument that central moral concepts are irreducibly second personal, entailing mutual accountability and the authority to address demands to one another (and ourselves). He illustrates the second-personal frameworks power to illuminate a wide variety of issues in moral, political, and legal philosophy. Section I concerns morality: its distinctiveness among normative concepts, the metaethics of bipolar obligations (owed to someone); the relation between moral obligations form and the substance of our obligations; whether the fact that an action is wrong is itself a reason against action (as opposed to simply entailing that sufficient moral reasons independently exist); and whether morality requires general principles or might be irreducibly particularistic. Section II consists of two essays on autonomy: one discussing the relation between Kants autonomy of the will and the right to autonomy, and another arguing that what makes an agents desires and will reason-giving is not the basis of internal practical reasons in desire, but the dignity of persons and shared second-personal authority. Section III focuses on the nature of authority and the law. Two essays take up Joseph Razs influential normal justification thesis and argue that it fails to capture authoritys second-personal nature, without which authority cannot create exclusionaryand preemptivereasons. The final two essays concern law. The first sketches the insights that a second-personal approach can provide into the nature of law and the grounds of distinctions between different parts of law. The second shows how a second-personal framework can be used to develop the civil recourse theory in the law of torts.

Free Download Halla Kim, "Kant and the Foundations of Morality"
English | ISBN: 1498506291 | 2016 | 196 pages | EPUB | 572 KB

Free Download Victor de Munck, "The anthropology of power, agency, and morality: The enduring legacy of F. G. Bailey"
English | ISBN: 1526158256 | 2022 | 312 pages | PDF | 24 MB
The works of F. G. Bailey (1924-2020) provide a seminal template for good ethnography. Central to this is Bailey’s ability to conceptually connect the well-described micro-contexts of individual interactions to the macro-context of culture. Bailey’s core concerns – the tension between individual and collective interests, the will to power, and the dialectics of social forces which foster both collective solidarity as well as divisiveness and discontent – are themes of universal interest; the beauty of his work lies in his analyses of how these play out in local arenas between real people. His models provide nuanced, yet explicit road maps to analysing the different leadership styles of everyday people and contemporary leaders.

Free Download Edmund Wall, "Foundation for a Natural Morality: A Deductive Approach for Defending and Developing a Moral Theory"
English | ISBN: 1498503004 | 2018 | 192 pages | EPUB | 1386 KB
Few philosophers attempt to establish that there is an evaluative and moral realm. They make these major assumptions without argument. This plays into the hands of moral nihilists and certain other moral skeptics. A major obstacle that prevents philosophers from developing such arguments is the long-standing view that one cannot derive an "ought" from an "is," that is, one cannot begin with purely descriptive non-evaluative propositions and deduce an evaluative or moral proposition. In this book, Edmund Wall develops arguments for evaluative and moral principles. His deductive reasoning begins with certain purely descriptive and non-evaluative propositions concerning human nature, establishing a basic moral principle of human life and a basic moral principle of knowledge. By providing such deductive arguments for basic moral principles, Wall makes considerable progress in establishing a sure foundation for morality. He further develops his case by responding to a plethora of anticipated objections against his two arguments, and by delineating the advantages of his own moral approach over a number of influential moral theories and competing accounts of moral reasoning.

Free Download David K. Clark, "Atheism, Morality, and the Kingdom of God"
English | ISBN: 1527519635 | 2019 | 197 pages | PDF | 1099 KB
This treatise explores both the beguiling fancy that without God, moral virtue is not possible, and the dream that human fulfillment awaits the faithful in an afterlife Kingdom. It shows that Jesus Parables of the Kingdom of God, once stripped of their deceptive theological overlay, reveal an account of real-time flourishing that is secular, constituted by virtue, and incompatible with the life of faith (total dedication to a deity). Part I establishes that morality and human virtue are indeed fully independent of Gods very existence, while Parts II and III isolate the prized hermeneutical principle whereby the authentic words of Jesus are set in relief. What emerges is Jesus own urgent testimony of a this-world kingdom which is the good-life for humansthe summon bonum. This vision, anchored in the very tradition of which Jesus was both participant and critic, reveals human fulfillment as an achievement which is possible only here and nowshould we muster the courage to live it.