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Moral dilemmas and other topics in moral philosophy

Author: Philippa Foot
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Moral Dilemmas presents the best of Professor Foot's work from the late 1970s to the 1990s. In these essays she develops further her influential critique of the 'non-cognitivist' approaches that have dominated moral philosophy over the last fifty years. She shows why it is a mistake to think of morality in terms of special psychological states, expressed in special kinds of judgement and a special 'moral' kind of  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Philippa Foot
ISBN: 0199252831 9780199252831 019925284X 9780199252848
OCLC Number: 51033915
Notes: "Select bibliography of works by Philippa Foot": p. [209]-212.
Description: 218 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Morality and art --
Moral relativism --
Moral realism and moral dilemma --
Utilitarianism and the virtues --
Killing and letting die --
Morality, action, and outcome --
Von Wright on virtue --
Locke, Hume, and modern moral theory: a legacy of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century philosophies of mind --
Nietzsche's immoralism --
Rationality and virtue --
Moral dilemmas revisited --
Does moral subjectivism rest on a mistake?
Responsibility: Philippa Foot.
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Abstract:

"Moral Dilemmas presents the best of Professor Foot's work from the late 1970s to the 1990s. In these essays she develops further her influential critique of the 'non-cognitivist' approaches that have dominated moral philosophy over the last fifty years. She shows why it is a mistake to think of morality in terms of special psychological states, expressed in special kinds of judgement and a special 'moral' kind of language. Instead she portrays thoughts about the goodness of human will and action as a particular case of the evaluation of other operations of human beings, and indeed of all living things. Among other topics, she discusses moral relativism, utilitarianism, the nature of moral judgement, and practical rationality."--BOOK JACKET.

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