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Ethics and Moral Philosophy.
Title:
Ethics and Moral Philosophy.
Author:
Brooks, Thom.
ISBN:
9789004215337
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (428 pages)
Series:
Studies in Moral Philosophy ; v.1

Studies in Moral Philosophy
Contents:
Ethics and Moral Philosophy -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on Previous Publication -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I Practical Reason -- Standards, Advice, and Practical Reason -- Does Rationality Consist in Responding Correctly to Reasons? -- Practical Reason, Value and Action -- Normativity and Practical Judgement -- Part II Particularism -- Ethics Without Reasons? -- Defending the Right -- Part III Moral Realism -- Moral and Theological Realism: The Explanatory Argument -- Anti-Reductionism and Supervenience -- Part IV Virtue Ethics -- Han Feizi's Criticism of Confucianism and Its Implications for Virtue Ethics -- Aristotelean Virtue and the Interpersonal Aspect of Ethical Character -- Good but Not Required?-Assessing the Demands of Kantian Ethics -- Virtue, Character and Situation -- Part V Ethics and Moral Philosophy -- Doing Harm, Allowing Harm, and Denying Resources -- Time-Relative Interests and Abortion -- The Basis of Human Moral Status -- The Mixed Solution to the Number Problem -- Trivial Sacrifices, Great Demands -- Essentialism and Anti-Essentialism in Feminist Philosophy -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
Ethics and moral philosophy is an area of particular interest today. This book brings together some of the most important essays in this area. Topics include practical reason, particularism, moral realism, virtue ethics, and ethics and moral philosophy more generally.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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