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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Theodore Cullom Denise; Nicholas P White; Sheldon Paul Peterfreund |
| ISBN: | 0495094986 9780495094982 |
| OCLC Number: | 137222718 |
| Description: | xi, 361 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Pt. 1. Classical ethical traditions -- Knowledge / Plato -- Moral character / Aristotle -- The pleasant life / Epicurus -- Self-discipline / Epictetus -- The love of God / Saint Augustine -- Morality and natural law / Saint Thomas Aquinas -- Social contract ethics / Thomas Hobbes -- Nature and reason / Benedict de Spinoza -- Conscience in morality / Joseph Butler -- Morality and sentiment / David Hume -- Duty and reason / Immanuel Kant -- The greatest happiness principle / John Stuart Mill -- Pt. 2. Modern continuations and critiques -- The leap of faith / Søren Kierkegaard -- Morality as ideology / Karl Marx -- Utilitarianism revised / Henry Sidgwick -- The transvaluation of values / Friedrich Nietzsche -- Scientific method in ethics / John Dewey -- The indefinability of good / G.E. Moore -- Prima facie duty / W.D. Ross -- Ethics as emotive expression / A.J. Ayer and C.L. Stevenson -- Radical freedom / Jean-Paul Sartre -- Good reasons in ethics / Kurt Baier -- The concept of morality / William K. Frankena -- Ethics and social justice / John Rawls -- Moral virtue and human interest / Philippa Foot -- Ethics as trusting in trust / Annette Baier -- Inventing right and wrong / J.L. Mackie -- Ethical skepticism / Bernard Williams -- Epilogue: Applied ethics. |
| Responsibility: | [edited by] Theodore C. Denise, Nicholas P. White, Sheldon P. Peterfreund. |
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