Pragmatist Ethics - A Problem-Based Approach to What Matters

Argues that the path to the good life does not consist in working toward some abstract concept of the good, but rather by ameliorating the problems of the practices and institutions that make up our practical life.

About the author

James Jakób Liszka is Senior Scholar at the Institute for Ethics in Public Life and Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh. He is the author of Charles Peirce on Ethics, Esthetics and the Normative Sciences; Moral Competence: An Integrated Approach to the Study of Ethics (second edition); A General Introduction to the Semeiotic of Charles Sanders Peirce; and The Semiotic of Myth: A Critical Study of the Symbol (Advances in Semiotics).

Product details

• Authors: James Jak?b Liszka, James Jak=b Liszka, James Jakob Liszka, James Jakób Liszka
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2021
• EAN: 9781438485874
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-8587-4
• No. of pages: 204
• Series: Suny American Philosophy and C; SUNY series in American Philosophy and Cultural Thought
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works