Ethics and experience : life beyond moral theory /
Understanding Ethics explores the connections and the tensions between happiness and virtue, reason and commitment, motivation and justification, and objectivity and personal significance. It also re-examines familiar theories in normative ethics such as utilitarianism, virtue ethics, Kantianism, an...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Durham :
Acumen,
Ã2009.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Understanding Ethics explores the connections and the tensions between happiness and virtue, reason and commitment, motivation and justification, and objectivity and personal significance. It also re-examines familiar theories in normative ethics such as utilitarianism, virtue ethics, Kantianism, and intuitionism from a fresh and revealing perspective. The book is an excellent primer for students taking courses on moral philosophy. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 229 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781844654161 1844654168 9781317492658 131749265X 1317492641 9781317492641 1315711672 9781315711676 1283456680 9781283456685 9786613456687 6613456683 |