Elijah Millgram

Ethics Done Right

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines how practical reasoning can be put into the service of ethical and moral theory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 734g
• ISBN-13: 9780521839433
• ISBN-10: 0521839432
• Artikelnr.: 22276295

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: the method of practical reasoning
2. What's the use of utility?
3. Mill's proof of the principle of utility
4. Does the categorical imperative give rise to a contradiction in the will? 5. Reasonably virtuous
6. Murdoch, practical reasoning, and particularism
7. Was Hume a Humean? 8. Hume on 'is' and 'ought'
9. Hume, political noncognitivism, and the history of England
10. Incommensurability and practical reasoning
11. Commensurability in perspective
12. Varieties of practical reasoning and varieties of moral theory.