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

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: Hardback
• Released: 15.02.2006
• EAN: 9780521839433
• ISBN: 978-0-521-83943-3
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works