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The nature of moral thinking /

The Nature of Moral Thinking is an introductory text to the questions of ethics, offering a solid philosophical and historical basis for understanding the central issues. Francis Snare discusses in detail the classical philosophical arguments of Plato and Butler in relation to relativism and subject...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Snare, Francis
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: London ; New York : Routledge, 1992.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Moral thinking and philosophical questions
  • Authoritarian ethics and subjectivist ethics
  • Some classic ethical theories
  • Psychological egoism and hedonism
  • Meta-ethical theories
  • Hume's gap and the naturalistic fallacy
  • Relativism in general
  • Descriptive relativism and meta-ethical subjectivism
  • Genetic accounts which debunk morality
  • Descriptive relativism and varieties of normative relativism
  • Whether meta-ethical subjectivism has practical consequences
  • Methods of justifying a normative ethical theory.