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Ethics done right : practical reasoning as a foundation for moral theory /

Examining how practical reasoning can be put into the service of ethical and moral theory, the papers in this volume support a methodological approach and trace the connections between two kinds of theory in utilitarianism, in Kantian ethics, in virtue ethics, in Hume's moral philosophy, and in...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Millgram, Elijah
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
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  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; 1 What's the Use of Utility?; 2 Mill's Proof of the Principle of Utility; 3 Does the Categorical Imperative Give Rise to a Contradiction in the Will?; 4 Reasonably Virtuous; 5 Murdoch, Practical Reasoning, and Particularism; Notes; 6 Was Hume a Humean?; 7 Hume on "Is" and "Ought"; 8 Hume, Political Noncognitivism, and the History of England; 9 Incommensurability and Practical Reasoning; 10 Commensurability in Perspective; 11 Varieties of Practical Reasoning and Varieties of Moral Theory; References; Index.