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An Introduction to ethics / edited by Robert E. Dewey, Robert H. Hurlbutt III.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Macmillan, 1977.Description: xii, 499 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0023294809
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 170
LOC classification:
  • BJ71 .I58 1977
Contents:
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. .
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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.
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