Milton Fisk

Ethics and Social Survival

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Produktbeschreibung

Ethics and Social Survival rejects theories that treat ethics as having justification within itself and contends that ethics can have a grip on humans only if it serves their deep-seated need to live together. It takes a social-survival view of ethical life and its norms by arguing that ethics looks to society not for reg

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 336g
• ISBN-13: 9780367877477
• ISBN-10: 0367877473
• Artikelnr.: 58482401

Autorenporträt

Milton Fisk is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Indiana University Bloomington, USA

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Why be Ethical?
Part I: Basics
1. Social Viability as the Goal of Ethical Life
2. The Role of Emotions in Ethical Life
3. Power in Ethical Life
4. Social and Personal Ethics
5. Conflicts and Universals
Part II: Alternatives
6. Ethics: Religious and Secular
7. Freedom in Liberal Ethics
8. The Place of Reasons and Authority
9. Our Democratic Modernity
10. Social Change and Ethical Transcendence
Part III: Extensions
11. Market Values in Ethical Life
12. Common Goods in Ethical Life
13. Practical Ethics: Public Goods and Cooperation
14. Justice as Balancing
15. Local and Global Ethics