Morality and Action

Klappentext This volume would be ideally suited to upper-level undergraduate courses and graduate seminars on the foundations of ethics. Zusammenfassung Warren Quinn was widely regarded as a moral philosopher of remarkable talent. This collection of his most important contributions to moral philosophy and the philosophy of action has been edited for publication by Philippa Foot. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Moral and other realisms: some initial difficulties; 2. Abortion: identity and loss; 3. The right to threaten and the right to punish; 4. Reply to Brook; 5. Truth and explanation in ethics; 6. Reflection and the loss of moral knowledge: Williams on objectivity; 7. Actions, intentions, and consequences: the doctrine of doing and allowing; 9. Actions, intentions, and consequences: the doctrine of double effect; 9. Reply to Boyle's 'who is entitled to double effect?'; 10. The puzzle of the self-torturer; 11. Rationality and the human good; 12. Putting rationality in its place.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Philippa Foot, Warren Quinn, Quinn Warren
• Mitarbeit: Jonathan Dancy (Herausgeber), Ernest Sosa (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 28.01.1994
• EAN: 9780521446969
• ISBN: 978-0-521-44696-9
• Seiten: 272
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Philosophie > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Philosophie: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy