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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 |
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Durham :
Acumen,
Ã2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 The turn to reason: how human beings got ethical; 2 Demarcation: what does ""ethical"" mean?; 3 Motivation: why be moral?; 4 Deliberation: the question of reason; 5 Introducing subjectivism and objectivism; 6 Five arguments for ethical subjectivism; 7 The content of ethics: expressivism, error theory, objectivism again; 8 Virtue ethics; 9 Utilitarianism; 10 Kantianism and contractarianism; 11 Theory and insight in ethics; Further reading; Bibliography; Index