TY - BOOK AU - Dewey,Robert E. AU - Hurlbutt,Robert H. TI - An Introduction to ethics SN - 0023294809 AV - BJ71 .I58 1977 U1 - 170 PY - 1977/// CY - New York PB - Macmillan KW - Ethics N1 - Includes bibliographies; Preliminary considerations: is ethics or morality possible?--The subject matter of ethics: what distinguishes ethics from other disciplines?--Psychological egoism: do all the actions of men proceed from the sole motive of self-love?--Freedom and determinism: are human choices reallly free?--Cultural relativism: Is ethics mere conformity--Normative ethics: what is right and what is good?--Deontological theories: are actions right or wtong regardless of consequences?--Teleological theories: does the amount of good produced make an action right?--Critique of normative theories: are ultimate ethical principles defensible?--Meta-ethics: what do ethical terms mean and are ethical judgments true or false?--Cognitivism and non-naturalism: intuitionism again--Non-congnitivism and non-naturalism: emotivism--Quasi-cognitivism and quasi-naturalism: the good reasons approach--The revival of cognitivism and naturalism: descriptivism. ER -