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Vices, Virtues, and Consequences : Essays in Moral and Political Philosophy /

"Vices, Virtues, and Consequences offers a broad study of the basic and universal issues in ethics and politics, the issues of what the human good is and how to attain it and avoid its opposite. These questions have long been debated and are no less debated today. However, according to author P...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Simpson, Peter, 1951-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, 2001.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A century of modern Anglo-American moral philosophy
  • Modern autonomous morality and the idea of the noble
  • On doing wrong, modern-style
  • Justice, consequences, and Cicero
  • Virtue ethics and Aristotle
  • The naturalistic fallacy and Saint Thomas
  • Practical thinking and Saint Thomas
  • Politics and nature
  • Political authority and moral education
  • Tyrants and gods
  • Liberalism, state, and community
  • Freedom and representation: finding the mean
  • Natural law, abortion, and civil disobedience
  • Just war theory and the IRA
  • Becoming gods: the work of persons.