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In this study, John Kekes develops the view that good lives depend on maintaining a balance between one's moral tradition and individuality. Our moral tradition provides the forms of good lives and the permissible ways of trying to achieve them. But to do so, the author argues, we must grow in...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kekes, John
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1989.
Temas:
Ethics.
Individuality.
Satisfaction.
Tradition (Philosophy)
Ethics
Individuality
Personal Satisfaction
Morale.
Individualité.
Tradition.
ethics (philosophy)
traditionalism.
PHILOSOPHY > Political.
Satisfaction
Ethik
Individualität
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover Page
  • Half-title Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication Page
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One: Objectivity and Horror in Morality
  • Objectivity and Its Implication
  • The Horror of Oedipus
  • Conditions of Moral Horror
  • Moral Horror and Self-Condemnation
  • Judging One's Character
  • Deep and Variable Conventions
  • Chapter Two: Beyond Choice: The Grounds of Moral Disapproval
  • The Principle: Ought Implies Can
  • Voluntarism vs. Eudaimonism
  • Strong and Weak Versions of the Principle
  • The Appropriateness of Moral Disapproval
  • The Unimportance of Choice
  • Chapter Three: The Great Guide of Human Life
  • Decency: A First Sketch
  • Aristotle on Civic Friendship
  • Civic Friendship and Decency
  • Hume on Sympathy
  • Hume on Custom
  • Decency and Social Morality
  • The Content of Decency
  • Chapter Four: Decency
  • Wharton's Vision
  • Rule-Following and Identity-Conferring Decency
  • Identity-Conferring Decency and Happiness
  • Decency and Character
  • The Value of Decency
  • Chapter Five: A Defense of Social Morality: Intuition of Simple Moral Situations
  • The Prima Facie Case
  • Moral Intuitions
  • Justification of Moral Intuitions
  • Enforcement of Social Morality
  • Pluralism and Social Morality
  • Chapter Six: Self-Direction in Complex Moral Situations
  • From Social to Personal Morality
  • A Case of Self-Direction: Antigone
  • Self-Direction vs. Perfection
  • Self-Direction vs. Self-Realization
  • Good and Evil in Human Nature
  • The Mixed View of Human Nature
  • Chapter Seven: Good Judgment
  • Judgments and Principles
  • A Study of Complex Situations: James's The Ambassadors
  • Objectivity
  • Moral Idioms
  • Breadth
  • Depth
  • Chapter Eight: Moral Reflection and Conflict
  • Pluralism, Reflection, and Conflict
  • Simple Moral Situations without Reflection and Conflict
  • Moral Reflection on Human Limitations: Tolstoy's Ivan Ilych
  • Moral Reflection on Human Possibilities
  • Chapter Nine: Moral Perspectives
  • Commitments and Their Structure: Thomas More
  • Unconditional Commitments and Depth
  • The Structure of Commitments and the Structure of Conventions
  • Moral Perspectives and Their Adequacy
  • Chapter Ten: The Goods of Good Lives
  • External and Internal Goods
  • The Contingency of Goods
  • Mixed Goods
  • The Enjoyment of Goods
  • Moral Merit and Personal Satisfaction
  • Chapter Eleven: The Justification of Eudaimonism
  • Pluralism and Justification
  • Subjectivism and Objectivism
  • Subjective Justification
  • Eudaimonistic Objectivism
  • Three Conditions of Adequacy
  • Three Tests of Good Lives
  • Chapter Twelve: The Integrity and Purity of Good Lives
  • Integrity and Moral Perspectives
  • Integrity and Purity: Kierkegaard's Mistake
  • Living in the World: Montaigne's Solution
  • Integrity in Effort and Adversity
  • Prereflective and Reflective Purity
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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