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The Scope of Morality
The scope of morality, Peter A. French contends, is much narrower than many traditional and contemporary works in ethical theory suggest. We trivialize morality if we think it has something to say about everything we do; it touches us all, but not at all.
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
1979.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; Preface; Contents; Chapter 1 Persons as Agents: Membership in the Moral Community; Chapter 2 MORALITY: Morals and Euergetics; Chapter 3 An Extension of the Montesquieu Conjecture; Chapter 4 The Role of Model Building: Lifeboats, the Spaceship, and the System; Chapter 5 Moral Concepts and Their Function in Discourse: Contemplating Murder; Chapter 6 Institutional and Moral Obligations, or Merels and Morals; Chapter 7 "He wos wery good to me, he wos!": Eurgetical Concepts; Chapter 8 Faint Hearts and Fair Ladies; Appendix: Senses of "Blame"; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index.