Ethics and experience : life beyond moral theory /

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Understanding Ethics explores the connections and the tensions between happiness and virtue, reason and commitment, motivation and justification, and objectivity and personal significance. It also re-examines familiar theories in normative ethics such as utilitarianism, virtue ethics, Kantianism, an...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Chappell, T. D. J. (Timothy D. J.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Acumen, Ã2009.
Subjects:
Ethics.
Conduct of life.
Ethics
Morale.
Morale pratique.
ethics (philosophy)
ethics (philosophical concept)
PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY > Social.
Conduct of life
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 The turn to reason: how human beings got ethical; 2 Demarcation: what does ""ethical"" mean?; 3 Motivation: why be moral?; 4 Deliberation: the question of reason; 5 Introducing subjectivism and objectivism; 6 Five arguments for ethical subjectivism; 7 The content of ethics: expressivism, error theory, objectivism again; 8 Virtue ethics; 9 Utilitarianism; 10 Kantianism and contractarianism; 11 Theory and insight in ethics; Further reading; Bibliography; Index

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