Drawing Morals - Essays in Ethical Theory

Zusatztext One should hope and expect that intriguing puzzles emerge from a collection of essays like this. Perhaps the most important moral to be drawn from Drawing Morals is that Hurka's structural method and the insights he explores will continue to engender further philosophizing. Informationen zum Autor Thomas Hurka is Jackman Distinguished Professor of Philosophical Studies at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Perfectionism, Principles: Short Essays on Ethics, Virtue, Vice, and Value, and The Best Things in Life, as well as of many articles in moral and political philosophy. For two years he wrote a philosophy column for the Globe and Mail newspaper. Klappentext This volume contains selected essays in moral and political philosophy by Thomas Hurka. Zusammenfassung This volume contains selected essays in moral and political philosophy by Thomas Hurka. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgements Introduction I. Methodology 1 Normative Ethics: Back to the Future II. Comparing and Combining Goods 2 Value and Population Size 3 The Well-Rounded Life 4 Monism, Pluralism, and Rational Regret 5 How Great a Good is Virtue? 6 Two Kinds of Organic Unity 7 Asymmetries in Value III. Individual Goods 8 Why Value Autonomy? 9 Desert: Holistic and Individualistic 10 Virtuous Act, Virtuous Disposition 11 Games and the Good IV. Principles of Right 12 Rights and Capital Punishment 13 Two Kinds of Satisficing 14 The Justification of National Partiality 15 Proportionality in the Morality of War

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• Authors: Thomas Hurka
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.05.2011
• EAN: 9780199743094
• ISBN: 978-0-19-974309-4
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Oxford Moral Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy