Wang Haiming

The Principles of New Ethics I

Meta-Ethics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume studies the five primitive concepts of metaethics - "value", "good", "ought", "right", and "fact" - and reveals their relationship, while demonstrating the solution to "Hume's guillotine. The author identifies excellent moral norms, leading to solutions on how to prove ethical axioms and ethical postulates.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781138331617
• ISBN-10: 1138331619
• Artikelnr.: 60005007

Autorenporträt

Wang Haiming is a professor at the Department at Philosophy at Peking University, China, and a specially appointed professor at Sanya University, China, mainly studying ethics and political philosophy. Email: [e-mail]

Inhaltsangabe

Part One: Categories of Metaethics. 1 The Starting Concept of Ethics. 2
Primitive Concept of Ethics. Part Two: The Metaethical Proof. 3 The Axiom
of the Existence of Value and the Postulate of the Existence of Moral Value
in Ethics. 4 The Deductive Axioms and Deductive Postulates in Ethics.

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Part One: Categories of Metaethics. 1 The Starting Concept of Ethics. 2 Primitive Concept of Ethics. Part Two: The Metaethical Proof. 3 The Axiom of the Existence of Value and the Postulate of the Existence of Moral Value in Ethics. 4 The Deductive Axioms and Deductive Postulates in Ethics.