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Drawing morals : essays in ethical theory /

This volume contains selected essays in moral and political philosophy. The chapters address a wide variety of topics, from the well-rounded life and the value of playing games to proportionality in war and the ethics of nationalism. They also share a common aim: to illuminate the surprising richnes...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hurka, Thomas, 1952-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2011.
Colección:Oxford moral theory.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Normative ethics : back to the future
  • Value and population size
  • The well-rounded life
  • Monism, pluralism, and rational regret
  • How great a good is virtue?
  • Two kinds of organic unity
  • Asymmetries in value
  • Why value autonomy?
  • Desert : holistic and individualistic
  • Virtuous act, virtuous disposition
  • Games and the good
  • Rights and capital punishment
  • Two kinds of satisficing
  • The justification of national partiality
  • Proportionality in the morality of war.