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Zusatztext The value of this book ... is immense. The penetrating discussions of such matters as Ross's different formulations of his position on prima facie duties, of the Broad-Ewing defence of 'fittingness' as the fundamental thin moral concept, ... and so on and on are deft, scholarly, and wonderfully informative. Informationen zum Autor Thomas Hurka is Chancellor Henry N.R. Jackman Distinguished Professor of Philosophical Studies at the University of Toronto and taught previously at the University of Calgary. He is the author of several books primarily in the theory of value--Perfectionism (OUP, 1993), Virtue, Vice, and Value (OUP, 2001), and The Best Things in Life (OUP, 2011)--and is the author of Underivative Duty: British Moral Philosophers from Sidgwick to Ewing (OUP, 2011), as well as numerous articles in moral and political philosophy. For a time he was a weekly ethics columnist for the Globe and Mail newspaper. Klappentext This is the first full historical study of a key strand in the development of modern moral philosophy. The subject is a school of British ethical theorists from the late 19th to the mid-20th century, including Sidgwick and Moore. Hurka shows what these philosophers thought, how they influenced each other, and how their ideas changed through time. Zusammenfassung This is the first full historical study of a key strand in the development of modern moral philosophy. The subject is a school of British ethical theorists from the late 19th to the mid-20th century, including Sidgwick and Moore. Hurka shows what these philosophers thought, how they influenced each other, and how their ideas changed through time. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction 1: Minimal Concepts 2: 'Ought' and 'Good' 3: Kinds of Goodness and Duty 4: Non-Naturalism 5: Intuitionism 6: Moral Truths: Underivative and Derived 7: Consequentialism vs. Deontology 8: Act-Consequentialism, Pluralist Deontology 9: Non-Moral Goods 10: Moral Goods 11: Your Good, Distribution, Punishment 12: Historians of Ethics Bibliographical Abbreviations Bibliography Index ...
