Great traditions in ethics
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Published: |
Thomson/Wadsworth,
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Publisher Address: | Australia Belmont, CA |
Publication Dates: | c2005. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Edition: | 11th ed. |
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Carrier Form: | xii, 377 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
ISBN: |
0534626548 9780534626549 0534274943 (InfoTrac college ed. passcode card) 9780534274948 (InfoTrac college ed. passcode card) |
Index Number: | B82 |
CLC: | B82-09 |
Call Number: | B82-09/G786/11th.ed. |
Contents: |
Donation. Includes bibliographical references. Pt. 1. Classical ethical traditions. -- Knowledge / Plato. -- Moral character / Aristotle. -- The pleasant life / Epicurus. -- Self-discipline / Epictetus. -- The love of God / Saint Augustine. -- Morality and natural law / Saint Thomas Aquinas. -- Social contract ethics / Thomas Hobbes. -- Nature and reason / Benedict de Spinoza. -- Conscience in morality / Joseph Butler. -- Morality and sentiment / David Hume. -- Duty and reason / Immanuel Kant. -- The greatest happiness principle / John Stuart Mill. -- Pt. 2. Modern continuations and critiques. -- The leap of faith / Søren Kierkegaard. -- Morality as ideology / Karl Marx. -- Utilitarianism revised / Henry Sidgwick. -- The transvaluation of values / Friedrich Nietzsche. -- Scientific method in ethics / John Dewey. -- The indefinability of good / G.E. Moore. -- Prima facie duty / W.D. Ross. -- Ethics as emotive expression / A.J. Ayer and C.L. Stevenson. -- Radical freedom / Jean-Paul Sartre. -- Good reasons in ethics / Kurt Baier. -- The concept of morality / William K. Frankena. -- Ethics and social justice / John Rawls. -- Moral virtue and human interest / Philippa Foot. -- Ethics as trusting in trust / Annette Baier. -- Inventing right and wrong / J.L. Mackie. -- Ethical skepticism / Bernard Williams. -- Epilogue: Applied ethics. |