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Arguing that the prevalence of evil presents a fundamental problem for our secular sensibility, John Kekes develops a conception of character-morality as a response. He shows that the main sources of evil are habitual, unchosen actions produced by our character defects and that we can increase our c...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kekes, John
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1990.
Temas:
Character.
Good and evil.
Caractère.
Character
Good and evil
Das Gute
Das Böse
Philosophie > Das Böse.
Das Böse > Philosophie.
Aristotle.
Barry, Brian.
Brown, James.
Enlightenment.
Feinberg, Joel.
Frankena, William.
Gert, Bernard.
Hampshire, Stuart.
Kant, Immanuel.
Kurtz (character).
Nussbaum, Martha.
Plato.
Rawls, John.
Socratic ideal.
action.
character.
character-morality.
contingency.
control.
desert.
destructiveness.
egalitarianism.
expediency.
good life.
hard reaction.
human nature.
indifference.
insufficiency.
malevolence.
moral merit.
morality.
our sensibility.
reflective temper.
tragic situations.
vices.
vulnerability.
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Sumario:Arguing that the prevalence of evil presents a fundamental problem for our secular sensibility, John Kekes develops a conception of character-morality as a response. He shows that the main sources of evil are habitual, unchosen actions produced by our character defects and that we can increase our control over the evil we cause by cultivating a reflective temper.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xii, 250 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-245) and index.
ISBN:9780691217963
0691217963

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