Autore	Amori Matteo
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Guida Editori
Soggetto topico	Teleology Ethics Ethics - Catholic authors
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	ita
Altri titoli varianti	Irriducibilità del fine L'irriducibilità del fine
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910437489203321

Autore	Hughes Fiona, Dr.
Pubbl/distr/stampa	London ; ; New York, : Continuum, c2010
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (205 p.)
Disciplina	121
Collana	Continuum reader's guides
Soggetto topico	Judgment (Logic) Judgment (Aesthetics) Aesthetics Teleology
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-4411-9686-2 1-282-87472-1 9786612874727 1-4411-4725-X
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Context -- Overview of themes -- Reading the text -- Reception and influence -- Notes for further reading.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910458911503321

Autore	Sauer Hanno
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York, NY : , : Routledge, , [2023]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (225 pages)
Disciplina	124
Collana	Routledge studies in ethics and moral theory
Soggetto topico	Ethics, Evolutionary Teleology
ISBN	1-00-337575-8 1-000-89956-X 1-003-37575-8 1-000-89960-8
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Intro -- Introduction -- 1 The Shape of Things to Come: What Is Moral Progress? -- Introduction -- 1.1 The Concept of Moral Progress -- 1.2 But Is It Progress? -- 1.3 Local and Global -- 1.4 Individual and Collective -- 1.5 Wide and Narrow -- 1.6 Moral Regress -- 1.7 One Step Back, Two Steps Forward -- 1.8 Regress for All! -- 1.9 Imperfect Allies -- 1.10 The Princess and the Pea -- 2 Butchering Benevolence: Is Moral Progress Possible? -- Introduction -- 2.1 The Limits of Concern -- 2.2 From Evolution to Conservatism -- 2.3 A Conservative Advantage? -- 2.4 The Wrong Kind of Progress -- 2.5 Does Evolution Constrain Moral Progress? -- 3 The End of Utopia: Does Moral Progress Have a Goal? -- Introduction -- 3.1 Naturalizing Teleology? -- 3.2 Normative Ambivalence -- 3.3 What Is Teleology, Anyway? -- (i) Directionality -- (ii) Agency -- (iii) Probability -- (iv) Morality -- (v) Transparency -- (vi) Scale -- (vii) Uniqueness -- (viii) Timing -- 3.4 Taking Teleology Seriously -- 4 Looking Forward: Towards Teleology 2.0 -- Introduction -- 4.1 The Case for Decline -- 4.2 Debunking Teleology? Anti-Narrativism -- 4.3 The New Optimism: Empirical Evidence for Progress -- 4.4 The Cunning of Reason: Teleology Without Goals -- 4.5 The Arc(s) of History -- 4.6 Circularity and Smugness -- 5 Beyond Expansion: Which Types of Moral Progress Are There? -- Introduction -- 5.1 Well-Being -- 5.2 Equality -- 5.3 Moral Status: The Expanding Circle -- 5.4 Moral Status: The Contracting Circle -- 5.5 Liberty and Autonomy -- 5.6 Fewer Bad Norms -- 5.7 More Good Norms -- 5.8 Improved Compliance -- 5.9 Improved Moral Knowledge -- 5.10 Moral Progress: Towards a Systematic Typology -- 5.11 Evolutionary Conservatism Again -- 6 Mechanisms of Moral Evolution: What Drives Moral Progress? -- Introduction -- 6.1 Energy Capture, Group Size, and Technology: Material Mechanisms. 6.2 Social Integration: Functionalistic Mechanisms -- 6.3 Knowledge and Information: Epistemic Mechanisms -- 6.4 Crisis and Struggle: Social Movements -- 6.5 New Norms: Experiments in Living -- 7 Unsocial Sociability: How Can Moral Progress Be Sustained? -- Introduction -- 7.1 Intelligent Design -- 7.2 Storage and Retrieval: Mechanisms of Transmission -- 7.3 Norms and Practices -- 7.4 The Socially Extended Mind -- 7.5 Institutions Rule -- 7.6 Institutional Bypassing -- 7.7 Proxy Institutions -- 7.8 Ameliorative Institutions -- 7.9 Slow Institutions? -- 7.10 Reflexive Institutions -- 7.11 Extracting Norms From Institutions -- 8 The Long March: Does Moral Progress Require Moral Facts? -- Introduction -- 8.1 From Moral Progress to Moral Facts: The Simple Argument -- 8.2 The Case of Conversion -- 8.3 A Realist Account of Moral Progress -- 8.4 Anti-Realism: Moral and Scientific Progress, Functionalism, and Problem-Solving -- 8.5 Moral Convergence -- 8.6 The Fact of Moral Universalism -- (1) Basic Evaluative Dispositions -- (2) Cooperative Strategies -- (3) Cross-Cultural Values -- (4) Political Values -- 8.7 Realism Requires Disagreement -- Scientific and Moral Knowledge -- Everyday Knowledge and Moral Knowledge -- Easy Moral Knowledge -- Moral Expertise -- Counterattack -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Autore	Weingartner Paul
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2015]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (338 p.)
Disciplina	214/.8
Collana	Philosophische analyse / philosophical analysis
Soggetto topico	Teleology Providence and government of God Free will and determinism Chance Good and evil
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-61451-886-6 1-61451-950-1
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Whether there can be providence at all? -- 2. Whether providence can be attributed to God? -- 3. Whether providence is concerned with creation? -- 4. Whether there is order in the change of things? -- 5. Whether there is teleological order in non-living things? -- 6. Whether there is chance and randomness in non-living things? -- 7. Whether there is teleological order in living things? -- 8. Whether there is chance and randomness in living things? -- 9. Whether providence is compatible with both order and chance? -- 10. Whether everything that happens comes under God's providence -- 11. Whether everything that comes under God's providence is known by God -- 12. Whether everything that comes under God's providence is willed or permitted by God -- 13. Whether everything that comes under God's providence is caused by God or by creatures -- 14. Whether everything that comes under God's providence is directed to some goal or integrated into a network of goals -- 15. Whether nature's order and God's providence are compatible with free will -- 16. Whether God's providence is compatible with evil -- Bibliography -- List of definitions -- List of theorems -- List of names -- List of subjects
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910464423803321

Autore	Ruyer Raymond <1902-1987, >
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Minneapolis, Minnesota ; ; London, England : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2016
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (326 p.)
Disciplina	124
Collana	Posthumanities
Soggetto topico	Teleology Philosophy, Modern
ISBN	1-4529-5012-1
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; Contents; Introduction: Form and Phenomenon in Raymond Ruyer's Philosophy; 1. The Axiological Cogito; 2. Description of Finalist Activity; 3. Finalist Activity and Organic Life; 4. The Contradictions of Biological Antifinalism; 5. Finalist Activity and the Nervous System; 6. The Brain and the Embryo; 7. Signification of Equipotentiality; 8. The Reciprocal Illusion of Incarnation and "Material" Existence; 9. "Absolute Surfaces" and Absolute Domains of Survey; 10. Absolute Domains and Bonds; 11. Absolute Domains and Finality; 12. The Region of the Transspatial and the Transindividual 13. The Levels of the Transspatial and Finalist Activity14. The Beings of the Physical World and the Fibrous Structure of the Universe; 15. The Neomaterialist Theories; 16. Neo-Darwinism and Natural Selection; 17. Neo-Darwinism and Genetics; 18. Organicism and the Dynamism of Finality; 19. Psycho-Lamarckism; 20. Theology of Finality; Summary; Translator's Afterword: The Idea of the End Alyosha Edlebi; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910798032303321