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How to Make Good Decisions and Be Right All the Time : Solving the Riddle of Right and Wrong.
How to Make Good Decisions and Be Right All the Time offers a compelling and jargon-free guide to ethical thinking for everyday life. Iain King presents an introduction to moral philosophy from the ancient Greeks to the Enlightenment and beyond. He argues that right and wrong need a Newtonian revolu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Intro; Contents; Acknowledgements; Part I â#x80;#x93; The Problem: We Need to Make Decisions, But We Donâ#x80;#x99;t Know How; 1 Five Challenges to the Formula of Right and Wrong; 2 Desperately Seeking a System; 3 Unreliable Advice from Religion and Dice; 4 The Enlightenment Decision-Making Machine: Do Whatever Is Best . . .; 5 ... Does Not Seem Best; 6 Can We Fix It? The Pieces of the Puzzle; Part II â#x80;#x93; The Proof: Finding the Basis of Right and Wrong; 7 The Meaning of Life; 8 A Plan for Robinson Crusoe; 9 Answering an 8-Year-Old Who Incessantly Asks â#x80;#x98;Why?â#x80;#x99. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 10 I Say This, You Say That â#x80;#x93; Can We Ever Know Whoâ#x80;#x99;s Right?11 Applying the Sherlock Holmes Method; 12 How to Become a Better Person (and Answer Aristotle); 13 The Help Principle; 14 The DNA of Right and Wrong; Part III â#x80;#x93; The Principle: Refining the Help Principle; 15 Putting the DNA in a Petri Dish; 16 Using Your Watch to Tell Right from Wrong; 17 Letting People Choose for Themselves; 18 Torturers and Charitable Show-Offs; 19 Revenge, Reciprocity and Received Wisdom; 20 What if You Didnâ#x80;#x99;t Mean to Do It?; 21 The New Ladder to Humility; 22 The First Nine Principles of Right and Wrong. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Part IV â#x80;#x93; The Programme: Extending the Principles to Other Problems23 The Myth of Blame; 24 Punishment, Mercy and Remorse; 25 Something Funny about Promises; 26 A Credible Rule on Lying and the Richard Nixon Problem; 27 Rules for Romance and Sex; 28 How to Choose in Small Groups; 29 How to Choose in Large Groups; 30 The System for Making Decisions; 31 The Riddle Answered?; Part V â#x80;#x93; Practical Advice: For Real People in the Modern World; 32 So Why Arenâ#x80;#x99;t People Good, Then?; 33 Why People Hate Lawyers; 34 When Itâ#x80;#x99;s Best to Be Bad; 35 The Live Aid Problem: Does Charity Begin at Home? | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 36 The Mother Teresa Quandary: Can You Be Good without Giving Everything Away?37 The Man on the Morning Train; 38 How to Lead a Good Life in a Rough World; Part VI â#x80;#x93; The Prognosis: How to Make Good Decisions and Be Right All the Time; 39 Newtonâ#x80;#x99;s Limits; 40 What to Do and Why; Further Reading; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z. | |
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