Being good an introduction to ethics /
Simon Blackburn, author of the best-selling Think, structures this short introduction around these and other threats to ethics. Confronting seven different objections to our self-image as moral, well-behaved creatures, he charts a course through the philosophical quicksands that often engulf us. The...
| Основен автор: | Blackburn, Simon, 1944- |
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| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2001.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=438452 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Being good. |
Съдържание:
- Seven threats to ethics: Death of God
- Relativism
- Egoism
- Evolutionary theory
- Determinism and futility
- Unreasonable demands
- False consciousness
- Some ethical ideas: Birth
- Death
- Desire and the meaning of life
- Pleasure
- Greatest happiness of the greatest number
- Freedom from the bad
- Freedom and paternalism
- Rights and natural rights
- Foundations: Reasons and foundations
- Being good and living well
- Categorical imperative
- Contracts and discourse
- Common point of view
- Confidence restored
- Appendix: United Nations' universal declaration of human rights.