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Ethics Done Right - Practical Reasoning as a Foundation for Moral Theory

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Klappentext Examines how practical reasoning can be put into the service of ethical and moral theory. Zusammenfassung Examining how practical reasoning can be put into the service of ethical and moral theory! the papers in this volume support a methodological approach and trace the connections between two kinds of theory in utilitarianism! in Kantian ethics! in virtue ethics! in Hume's moral philosophy! and in moral particularism. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: the method of practical reasoning; 2. What's the use of utility?; 3. Mill's proof of the principle of utility; 4. Does the categorical imperative give rise to a contradiction in the will? 5. Reasonably virtuous; 6. Murdoch, practical reasoning, and particularism; 7. Was Hume a Humean? 8. Hume on 'is' and 'ought'; 9. Hume, political noncognitivism, and the history of England; 10. Incommensurability and practical reasoning; 11. Commensurability in perspective; 12. Varieties of practical reasoning and varieties of moral theory.

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Authors Elijah Millgram, Elijah (University of Utah) Millgram
Publisher Cambridge University Press Academic
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 13.10.2005
 
EAN 9780521548267
ISBN 978-0-521-54826-7
Dimensions 155 mm x 230 mm x 22 mm
Subjects Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs
Humanities, art, music > Philosophy

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