Logic and Ethics

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List of contents

1. Ethics and the Limits of Consistency.- 2. Negative Values.- 3. Whatever Happened to Deontic Logic.- 4. The Ethical Root of Language.- 5. The Principle of Transcendence and the Foundation of Axiology.- 6. Deontic Logic and Imperative Logic.- 7. Against Tolerating the Intolerable.- 8. Winning Against and With the Opponent.- 9. Meaning-Norms and Objectivity.- 10. On the Logic of Practical Evaluation.- 11. The Deductive Model in Ethics.- 12. Truth-Value of Ethical Statements: Some Philosophical Implications of the Model-Theoretic Defintion of Truth.- 13. On Subjective Appreciation of Objective Moral Points.- 14. On Fair Distribution of Indivisible Goods.- 15. Needs and Values.

Report

'All in all, this a volume that is indispensable for any academic library worthy of the name....On that basis alone I recommend it wholeheartedly.' Ethics Jan. 1992

Product details

• Assisted by: Pete Geach (Editor), Peter Geach (Editor), Holówka (Editor), Holówka (Editor), Jacek Holówka (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.06.2009
• EAN: 9780792310440
• ISBN: 978-0-7923-1044-0
• No. of pages: 318
• Weight: 649 g
• Illustrations: VII, 318 p.
• Series: Nijhoff International Philosophy Series; Nijhoff International Philosophy Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works