What am I in for?
Can you guys recommend philosophical books on morality?
What am I in for?
Wyatt Williams
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Charles Murphy
Skip morality and go straight to the important questions, try Culture of Critique by Kevin McDonald
Logan Ward
Natural Right and History by Leo Strauss
Alexander Brooks
Aristotle - Ethics
Kant - Groundwork to the Metaphysics of Morals, Critique of Practical Reason
Hume - An Inquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
Mill - Utilitarianism
Sidgwick - The Methods of Ethics
Nietzsche -Beyond Good and Evil, The Genealogy of Morals
Moore - Principia Ethica
Amscombe - Modern Moral Philosophy
Rawls - A Theory of Justice
Parfit - Reasons and Persons
Blake Price
A fine work. Masterful.
Dominic Walker
good point
Jackson Morris
Why skip morality?
Liam Robinson
Don't, he's memeing.
Robert Sanders
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Connor Baker
Bumping
Ayden Wright
Your bumping has been rewarded with a gift.
Kayden Clark
>Culture of Critique without morality
Read both.
Julian Jackson
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Colton Ortiz
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Aaron Russell
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Xavier Gonzalez
Da jooooooooos dun it!
Henry Russell
This, but sans retardedness.
Austin Russell
Just start with The genealogy of morals, it's really good and not too long
Lucas Barnes
ARISTOTLE NIETZSCHE KIERKEGAARD MACINTYRE
Connor Roberts
Top notch.
Lucas Rodriguez
Unironically
Ayden Wood
>Dude slavery LMAO.
You gotta read The Republic as well.
Tyler Bailey
It's funny the "morality" of Scientology actually accidentally managed to create a somewhat coherent moral worldview in the Darwinian Naturalist framework. The entirety of Hubbard's morality boils down to survival and trying to increase your odds of survival. Everything that is good aids survival, everything that is bad reduces survivability. But that manifests in a narcissistic cultish way of constantly one uping the morons who are willing to buy into your moronic cult. It's like Capitalism and individualism the religion.
Michael Rodriguez
are you abducted
Dominic Brown
It can be a bit of a dry read but there's a lot of good data to be found.
Jacob James
top kek
Easton Roberts
underrated post
add Jonas's "The Imperative of Responsibility" after you're done with those
Colton Ramirez
if you want to simplify the list go Aristotle, Kant, Hume, Mills and then read whichever of the last 6 you're interested in. The Aristotle and Mills are easy. Kant and Hume might give you a hard time depending if you've read them before. Those 4 will lay out the basic framework of ethical systems leaving out some notable exceptions like ethical egoism, Confucian role ethics, and feminist care ethics, which you can find readings about easily.
After you've done all the background work, then you'll have some fun while reading philosophers tear all of that down saying that it is useless garbage while simultaneously presenting myopic and esoteric solutions.
Michael Baker
How's the book posted in OP?
The nicomachean ethics.
Brayden Gonzalez
essential
Jackson Price
Not OP, what's it about and how would you recommend it?
Looking for a new book to buy.
John Hall
For some modern reading I'd recommend The Crooked Timber of Humanity by Isaiah Berlin.
Cameron Carter
Not that guy but it's about how to achieve eudaimonia ("human flourishing") by living a virtuous life, with virtue as the mean between two vices.
It has a mostly practical focus and from what I understand a lot of stuff that Aristotle builds on (i.e. teleology) is argued for in more abstract sense in other books, so the NE is relatively easy reading.
I've only read the first 5 books so far but I would recommend it anyways, I'm really liking it so far. Also, if you need clarification on some of the subtler arguments or technical terms (i.e "hexis," check out Sadler's lectures on the NE).
Jeremiah Brown
Thanks for the insightful reply man, have a good day.
Logan Roberts
No problem. I recommend Joe Sach's translation, by the way.
Luke Thompson
Lost
David Wilson
Bump
William Sanders
The Bible, obviously.