Sophie Botros
Biographic Data
| ID | 5966378 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sophie Botros |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sophie |
| FAMILY NAME | Botros |
| SIGNATURE | BOTROS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Essex |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Hume's Morality: Feeling and Fabrication
Book Review| January 01 2012 Hume's Morality: Feeling and Fabrication Cohon, Rachel, eds. Hume's Morality: Feeling and Fabrication. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. x + 285 pp. Sophie Botros Sophie Botros Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (1): 131–137. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-1426391 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Re…
Hume, Reason and Morality: A Legacy of Contradiction
Covering an important theme in Humean studies, this book focuses on Hume's hugely influential attempt in book three of his Treatise of Human Nature to derive the conclusion that morality is a matter of feeling, not reason, from its link with action. Claiming that Hume's argument contains a fundamental contradiction that has gone unnoticed in modern debate, this fascinating volume contains a refreshing combination of historical-scholarly work and …
Hume, reason and morality: A Legacy of Contradiction
Covering an important theme in Humean studies, this book focuses on Hume's hugely influential attempt, in Book 3 of his Treatise of Human Nature to derive the conclusion that morality is a matter of feeling, not reason, from its link with action." "Claiming that Hume's argument contains a fundamental contradiction that has gone unnoticed in modern debate, this volume is a combination of historical-scholarly work and contemporary analysis that see…
Precarious virtue
Freedom, Causality, Fatalism and Early Stoic Philosophy
The philosophy of the early Stoics is all too often interpreted in modern terms: their determinism has been compared to Laplace's,' their views on causality represented as Humean2 and their account of freedom and responsibility characterized as soft determinist.3 This tendency may seem innocuous enough, even if one judges as misguided attempts at giving ancient thinkers a coat of modern analytic varnish. But, as we shall see, analytic respectabil…
Acceptance and Morality
As a moral ideal, accepting the circumstances of one's life and its attendant miseries is, if not positively repugnant to modern ears, at least utterly puzzling. Historians might attempt to trace this aversion to the French Rationalists and English Utilitarians who believed that once the laws of human behaviour were discovered all social problems would be solved and who even tried to establish communities in which unhappiness would simply be erad…
The Gentleman In Trollope: Individuality and Moral Conduct
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Gentleman In Trollope: Individuality and Moral Conduct. By Shirley Robin Letwin. ( MacMillan, 1982. Pp. xi + 303. Price £15.00) Sophie Botros Sophie Botros University of Essex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 33, Issue 133, October 1983, Pages 408–409, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219170 Published: 01 October 1983
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Acceptance and Morality
As a moral ideal, accepting the circumstances of one's life and its attendant miseries is, if not positively repugnant to modern ears, at least utterly puzzling. Historians might attempt to trace this aversion to the French Rationalists and English Utilitarians who believed that once the laws of human behaviour were discovered all social problems would be solved and who even tried to establish communities in which unhappiness would simply be erad…
The Gentleman In Trollope: Individuality and Moral Conduct
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Gentleman In Trollope: Individuality and Moral Conduct. By Shirley Robin Letwin. ( MacMillan, 1982. Pp. xi + 303. Price £15.00) Sophie Botros Sophie Botros University of Essex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 33, Issue 133, October 1983, Pages 408–409, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219170 Published: 01 October 1983
Freedom, Causality, Fatalism and Early Stoic Philosophy
The philosophy of the early Stoics is all too often interpreted in modern terms: their determinism has been compared to Laplace's,' their views on causality represented as Humean2 and their account of freedom and responsibility characterized as soft determinist.3 This tendency may seem innocuous enough, even if one judges as misguided attempts at giving ancient thinkers a coat of modern analytic varnish. But, as we shall see, analytic respectabil…
Precarious virtue
Hume, Reason and Morality: A Legacy of Contradiction
Covering an important theme in Humean studies, this book focuses on Hume's hugely influential attempt in book three of his Treatise of Human Nature to derive the conclusion that morality is a matter of feeling, not reason, from its link with action. Claiming that Hume's argument contains a fundamental contradiction that has gone unnoticed in modern debate, this fascinating volume contains a refreshing combination of historical-scholarly work and …
Hume, reason and morality: A Legacy of Contradiction
Covering an important theme in Humean studies, this book focuses on Hume's hugely influential attempt, in Book 3 of his Treatise of Human Nature to derive the conclusion that morality is a matter of feeling, not reason, from its link with action." "Claiming that Hume's argument contains a fundamental contradiction that has gone unnoticed in modern debate, this volume is a combination of historical-scholarly work and contemporary analysis that see…
Hume's Morality: Feeling and Fabrication
Book Review| January 01 2012 Hume's Morality: Feeling and Fabrication Cohon, Rachel, eds. Hume's Morality: Feeling and Fabrication. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. x + 285 pp. Sophie Botros Sophie Botros Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (1): 131–137. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-1426391 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Re…
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