Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 212 pages)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0816609004
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0816608377
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0816662487
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9780816609000
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9780816608379
,
9780816662487
Inhalt:
The scope of morality, Peter A. French contends, is much narrower than many traditional and contemporary works in ethical theory suggest. We trivialize morality if we think it has something to say about everything we do; it touches us all, but not at all
Inhalt:
Acknowledgments; Preface; Contents; Chapter 1 Persons as Agents: Membership in the Moral Community; Chapter 2 MORALITY: Morals and Euergetics; Chapter 3 An Extension of the Montesquieu Conjecture; Chapter 4 The Role of Model Building: Lifeboats, the Spaceship, and the System; Chapter 5 Moral Concepts and Their Function in Discourse: Contemplating Murder; Chapter 6 Institutional and Moral Obligations, or Merels and Morals; Chapter 7 "He wos wery good to me, he wos!": Eurgetical Concepts; Chapter 8 Faint Hearts and Fair Ladies; Appendix: Senses of "Blame"; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-205) and index
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe French, Peter A Scope of morality Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©1979
Sprache:
Englisch
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Mehr zum Autor:
French, Peter A. 1942-
