Background
Becker, Lawrence Carlyle was born on April 26, 1939 in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States. Son of Albert Carlyle and Harriette (Toren) Becker.
( What would stoic ethics be like today if stoicism had s...)
What would stoic ethics be like today if stoicism had survived as a systematic approach to ethical theory, if it had coped successfully with the challenges of modern philosophy and experimental science? A New Stoicism proposes an answer to that question, offered from within the stoic tradition but without the metaphysical and psychological assumptions that modern philosophy and science have abandoned. Lawrence Becker argues that a secular version of the stoic ethical project, based on contemporary cosmology and developmental psychology, provides the basis for a sophisticated form of ethical naturalism, in which virtually all the hard doctrines of the ancient Stoics can be clearly restated and defended. Becker argues, in keeping with the ancients, that virtue is one thing, not many; that it, and not happiness, is the proper end of all activity; that it alone is good, all other things being merely rank-ordered relative to each other for the sake of the good; and that virtue is sufficient for happiness. Moreover, he rejects the popular caricature of the stoic as a grave figure, emotionally detached and capable mainly of endurance, resignation, and coping with pain. To the contrary, he holds that while stoic sages are able to endure the extremes of human suffering, they do not have to sacrifice joy to have that ability, and he seeks to turn our attention from the familiar, therapeutic part of stoic moral training to a reconsideration of its theoretical foundations.
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( Property Rights: Philosophic Foundations, first publish...)
Property Rights: Philosophic Foundations, first published in 1977, comprehensively examines the general justifications for systems of private property rights, and discusses with great clarity the major arguments as to the rights and responsibilities of property ownership. In particular, the arguments that hold that there are natural rights derived from first occupancy, labour, utility, liberty and virtue are considered, as are the standard anti-property arguments based on disutility, virtue and inequality, and the belief that justice in distribution must take precedence over private ownership. Lawrence Becker goes on to contend that there are four sound lines of argument for private property that, together with what is sound in the anti-property arguments, must be co-ordinated to form the foundations of a new theory. He therefore expounds a concise but sophisticated theory of property that is relevant to the modern world, and concludes by indicating some of the implications of his theory.
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Becker, Lawrence Carlyle was born on April 26, 1939 in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States. Son of Albert Carlyle and Harriette (Toren) Becker.
Bachelor in History, Midland College, 1961. Master of Arts in Philosophy, U Chicago, 1963. Doctor of Philosophy in Philosophy, U Chicago, 1965.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Midland Lutheran College, 1994.
Instructor philosophy, Hollins College, Roanoke, Virginia, 1965-1967;
assistant professor philosophy, Hollins College, Roanoke, Virginia, 1967-1971;
associate professor, Hollins College, Roanoke, Virginia, 1971-1978;
professor, Hollins College, Roanoke, Virginia, 1978-1989;
fellow of college, Hollins College, Roanoke, Virginia, since 1989;
director summer institute for ethics public policy, Hollins College, Roanoke, Virginia, 1990-1992;
professor philosophy, William R, Kenan, Junior professor humanities, College William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, since 1989;
acting chair, College William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1992-1993. Member summer conference in metaphysics Council for Philosophical Studies, 1968, member summer conference on moral problems in medicine, 1974. Visiting fellow in philosophy Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1975-1976.
Invited lecturer in field.
( What would stoic ethics be like today if stoicism had s...)
( What would stoic ethics be like today if stoicism had s...)
( Property Rights: Philosophic Foundations, first publish...)
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Member American Philosophical Association (committee on philosophy and law 1984-1987, advisory committee to program committee ethics division 1989-1992, committee on status and future of profession 1993-1996), American Society for Legal and Political Philosophy, Virginia Philosophical Association (secretary 1978-1979, vice president 1979-1980, president 1980-1981).
Married Charlotte Ann Burner, June 10, 1967.