Critique of Freedom and Equality

Klappentext This book is about the grounds of ethical life! or the nature and basis of our ethical obligations. Zusammenfassung This book is about the grounds of ethical life! or the nature and basis of our ethical obligations. Charvet considers the ideas of the freedom and equality of men and shows that there is a radical incoherence underlying them which consists in the failure to integrate in a coherent way the particular and the moral or communal dimensions of individual life. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: 1. The equal value of individuals as self-determining beings; 2. A preliminary notice of the difficulties; 3. Authenticity; 4. Egoism; 5. The principle of equal value in some contemporary literature; 6. The motivational structure of morality; 7. Hobbesian egoism; 8. Benevolence and sympathy; 9. Rousseau; 10. Rationalism and Kant; 11. Self-interest, morality and the divided self; 12. Utilitarianism; 13. Subordinate ordering principles; 14. The liberal theory of equal freedom; 15. Egalitarianism; 16. The Rawlsian combination; Part II. 17. Hegel; 18. Marx; Part III: 19. The relativity of value; 20. The fundamental moral attitude; 21. The possibility of morality; 22. The moral attitude and the rights of individuals; 23. The right to particular satisfaction or welfare; 24. The standpoint of the whole; 25. Ethical criticism; 26. Subjectivity and objectivity in morals; 27. The unity of the human race; Index.

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• Authors: John Charvet, Charvet John
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.05.2009
• EAN: 9780521112260
• ISBN: 978-0-521-11226-0
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Cambridge Studies in the Histo; Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy