Bøker av Jonathan Jacobs

This volume explores how individuals use moral agency to craft the moral dispositions and moral capabilities needed for living well-lived lives. It draws on Eastern and Western philosophical and ethical traditions to formulate and address key issues concerning character development and moral agency.In both Eastern and Western traditions, the complexities of shaping an individual's moral agency focus on sustained processes of inner self-cultivation. The chapters in this volume highlight the ways in which one is to manage and direct one's desires and aspirations, and what is to count as the source of guidance for a well-lived life. They engage with key figures and traditions in the history of Eastern and Western philosophy including Confucian, Buddhist, and western sources from Aristotle to Kant. The juxtaposition of sources from the different parts of the world highlights striking similarities and significant contrasts and provides rich conceptual resources for further exploration of these issues. The volume provides a broader, deeper pursuit of central issues of moral psychology and ethics in ways that highlight the inexhaustible resources in these traditions. The focus on character is a way to draw together perspectives on ethical life, theories of human agency, views of fundamental, life-guiding values, and relations between individuals and society and how persons see their place in the world.Moral Agency in Eastern and Western Thought will appeal to scholars and advanced students working on virtue ethics, moral psychology, comparative philosophy, and history of philosophy.

All the Indian there is...should be dead. Kill the Indian in him, and save the man."General Pratt spoke these words before developing the first Indian boarding school. It was under his leadership that thousands of Native American children were kidnapped from their homes and placed within forced assimilation camps. They were given English names and forbidden to speak their language, tell their stories, or sing their songs. If they resisted, they were bound, beaten, starved, and abused. The traumatized children who returned to their families after being "civilized" in these boarding schools could no longer speak their language or remember their stories. The Indian in them had been killed. It would seem the cultural genocide Pratt and the federal government attempted was a success...but was it?An old Ottawa chief, himself a boarding school survivor, cherishes the stories of his people and has hidden them in his heart. One night, while sitting around a fire, he reveals the sacred ways of his people to his grandson who must now commit them to memory so they are not lost forever.The Adawe Way offers its readers a rare glimpse into the cultural, political, and religious views of the Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma as they were passed down to Chief Charles Dawes from his ancestors. The Adawe Way is a short compilation of speeches made by a real Ottawa Chief, woven together in story form. The author is Ottawa, the stories are Ottawa, and the illustrations included in this book were created by an Ottawa artist.The proceeds of this book will go toward preserving the culture of the Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma.

Provides an account of ethical realism that combines both abstract meta-ethical issues defining the debate on realism and concrete topics in moral psychology. This title argues that practical reasoners can both understand the ethical significance of facts and be motivated to act by that understanding.

Are there key respects in which character and character defects are voluntary? Can agents with serious vices be rational agents? Jonathan Jacobs answers in the affirmative. Moral character is shaped through voluntary habits, including the ways we...

This alphabetic guide introduces the main positions, key figures, basic approaches, and central problems in ethical theory. Thorough and up-to-date it is a uniquely concise but comprehensive philosophical reference work to the subject.