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Moral Theory de Oderberg

Moral Theory

Autor Oderberg
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 apr 2000
Moral Theory sets out the basic system used to solve moral problems, the system that consequentialists deride as 'traditional morality'. The central concepts, principles and distinctions of traditional morality are explained and defended: rights; justice; the good; virtue; the intention/foresight distinction; the acts/omissions distinction; and, centrally, the fundamental value of human life.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780631219033
ISBN-10: 063121903X
Pagini: 212
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: Wiley
Locul publicării:Chichester, United Kingdom

Public țintă

advanced undergraduates, graduates, academics and researchers in Ethics

Notă biografică

David S. Oderberg is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Reading. A graduate of the Universities of Melbourne and Oxford, he is author of The Metaphysics of Identity over Time (1993); co-editor, with Jacqueline A. Laing, of Human Lives: Critical Essays on Consequentialist Bioethics (1997), and editor of Form and Matter: Themes in Contemporary Metaphysics (Blackwell, 1999).

Cuprins

Preface and Acknowledgements. 1 Ethics, Knowledge and Action.
1.1 Introduction.
1.2 Ethics and Knowledge.
The Fact-Value Distinction.
Relativism.
Prescriptivism and Expressivism.
1.3 Ethics and Action.
2 Basic Concepts in Moral Theory I.
2.1 Introduction.
2.2 The Good.
2.3 Virtue.
2.4 Rights and Duties.
2.5 Rights and Contracts.
2.6 Rights and Consequentialism.
2.7 Collision of Rights.
3 Basic Concepts in Moral Theory II.
3.1 Intention and Foresight.
Good, Evil and the Will.
The Principle of Double Effect.
Criticisms of PDE and Replies.
3.2 Acts and Omissions.
Another Derided Distinction.
Initial Clarifications of AOD.
The Derided Distinction Defended.
4 Close-Up on the Good of Life.
4.1 Life as a Good.
4.2 The Right to Life and the Sanctity of Life.
4.3 The Sanctity of Life and its Critics:.
Innocence.
A Life Not Worth Living?.
4.4 Persons and Human Beings.
Notes and Further Reading.
Index.

Descriere

This text sets out the basic system used to solve moral problems, the system that consequentialists deride as "traditional morality" and which they believe is "dead".