Ethics and moral philosophy

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Ethics and moral philosophy is an area of particular interest today. This book brings together some of the most important essays in this area. Topics include practical reason, particularism, moral realism, virtue ethics, and ethics and moral philosophy more generally.

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Full title :Ethics and moral philosophy / edited by Thom Brooks.

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Publication Date:2011.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Brill
Place of Publication:Leiden
Language:eng
Publication Date:2011.

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Description:1 online resource (x, 418 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9789004215337, 9004215336, 1283326914, 9781283326919, 9004203427, 9789004203426
oclc:ocn769189724
LC Classification:BJ21
Dewey Decimal:170

Ethics and Moral Philosophy; Copyright; Contents; Notes on Previous Publication; List of Contributors; Introduction; Part I Practical Reason; Standards, Advice, and Practical Reason; Does Rationality Consist in Responding Correctly to Reasons?; Practical Reason, Value and Action; Normativity and Practical Judgement; Part II Particularism; Ethics Without Reasons?; Defending the Right; Part III Moral Realism; Moral and Theological Realism: The Explanatory Argument; Anti-Reductionism and Supervenience; Part IV Virtue Ethics; Aristotelean Virtue and the Interpersonal Aspect of Ethical Character.

Virtue, Character and SituationPart V Ethics and Moral Philosophy; Doing Harm, Allowing Harm, and Denying Resources; Time-Relative Interests and Abortion; The Basis of Human Moral Status; The Mixed Solution to the Number Problem; Trivial Sacrifices, Great Demands; Essentialism and Anti-Essentialism in Feminist Philosophy; Bibliography; Index.