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Friendship : a central moral value /
Friendship was recognized as a central moral value in the classical period, but it was dismissed from medieval, modern, and twentieth century moral theories. This book argues that this dismissal is unjustifiable. The validity of this claim is established in four steps. First, it proposes the concept...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Rodopi,
2012.
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| Colección: | Value inquiry book series ;
v. 239. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Friendship was recognized as a central moral value in the classical period, but it was dismissed from medieval, modern, and twentieth century moral theories. This book argues that this dismissal is unjustifiable. The validity of this claim is established in four steps. First, it proposes the concept of moral paradigm. This concept enables us to explore the source of moral value and to provide a criterion for the evaluation of the adequacy of moral theory. Second, the book explains why medieval, modern and twentieth century moral theorists neglected friendship as a central moral value in their. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (233 pages). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789401207256 9401207259 1280497149 9781280497148 9786613592378 6613592374 |