John P Reeder
Biographic Data
| ID | 974292 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John P Reeder |
| GIVEN NAMES | John P |
| FAMILY NAME | Reeder |
| SIGNATURE | REEDER J P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brown University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
What Kind of Person Could Be a Torturer
What kind of persons could engage in political torture? Not only the morally impaired who lack empathy or compassion, or even the merely obedient, but also the righteous who struggle with conscience, and the realists who set morality aside
Religion and Morality
Killing and Saving: Abortion, Hunger, and War
Prospects for a Common Morality
This volume centres on debates about how far moral judgements bind across traditions and epochs. Nowadays such debates appear especially volatile, both in popular culture and intellectual discourse: although there is increasing agreement that the moral and political criteria invoked in human rights documents possess cross-cultural force, many modern and postmodern developments erode confidence in moral appeals that go beyond a local consensus or …
The Values We Share
tain moral principles, such as respect for human rights, we also witness major theoretical challenge to the notion that anything can ever be universal. Wisely, the editors of Prospects for Common Morality choose to address this paradox tentatively. Their aim is not to establish what they call a party line on either the postmodern or the human rights side. It is rather to ask some of our more thoughtful philosophers and theologians to reflect on t…
Prospects for a Common Morality
This volume centers on debates about how far moral judgments bind across traditions and epochs. Nowadays such debates appear especially volatile, both in popular culture and intellectual discourse: although there is increasing agreement that the moral and political criteria invoked in human rights documents possess cross-cultural force, many modern and postmodern developments erode confidence in moral appeals that go beyond a local consensus or a…
Assenting to Agape
Respect for Rational CreaturesThe Theory of Morality. Alan Donagan
Restauracion politica de Espana
Patterson Brown on God's Will as the Criterion of Morality
On Patterson Brown's analysis of the logic of Judeo-Christian morality, God's will is the criterion of what is right. The believer simply commits himself to or chooses God's will to the exclusion of all other criteria. Brown does not say that to obey God is a moral duty which always overrides other moral considerations. Nor does he say that God ‘transcends’ human morality either in the sense that he is the perfect exemplar of human standards or t…
Prospects for a Common Morality
This volume centres on debates about how far moral judgements bind across traditions and epochs. Nowadays such debates appear especially volatile, both in popular culture and intellectual discourse: although there is increasing agreement that the moral and political criteria invoked in human rights documents possess cross-cultural force, many modern and postmodern developments erode confidence in moral appeals that go beyond a local consensus or …
Patterson Brown on God's Will as the Criterion of Morality
On Patterson Brown's analysis of the logic of Judeo-Christian morality, God's will is the criterion of what is right. The believer simply commits himself to or chooses God's will to the exclusion of all other criteria. Brown does not say that to obey God is a moral duty which always overrides other moral considerations. Nor does he say that God ‘transcends’ human morality either in the sense that he is the perfect exemplar of human standards or t…
Restauracion politica de Espana
Respect for Rational CreaturesThe Theory of Morality. Alan Donagan
Assenting to Agape
Prospects for a Common Morality
This volume centers on debates about how far moral judgments bind across traditions and epochs. Nowadays such debates appear especially volatile, both in popular culture and intellectual discourse: although there is increasing agreement that the moral and political criteria invoked in human rights documents possess cross-cultural force, many modern and postmodern developments erode confidence in moral appeals that go beyond a local consensus or a…
The Values We Share
tain moral principles, such as respect for human rights, we also witness major theoretical challenge to the notion that anything can ever be universal. Wisely, the editors of Prospects for Common Morality choose to address this paradox tentatively. Their aim is not to establish what they call a party line on either the postmodern or the human rights side. It is rather to ask some of our more thoughtful philosophers and theologians to reflect on t…
Prospects for a Common Morality
This volume centres on debates about how far moral judgements bind across traditions and epochs. Nowadays such debates appear especially volatile, both in popular culture and intellectual discourse: although there is increasing agreement that the moral and political criteria invoked in human rights documents possess cross-cultural force, many modern and postmodern developments erode confidence in moral appeals that go beyond a local consensus or …
Killing and Saving: Abortion, Hunger, and War
Religion and Morality
What Kind of Person Could Be a Torturer
What kind of persons could engage in political torture? Not only the morally impaired who lack empathy or compassion, or even the merely obedient, but also the righteous who struggle with conscience, and the realists who set morality aside
Philosophy (7 works) · Morality (6 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Theology and Philosophy of Evil (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Download (2 works) · Duty (2 works)