| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 188 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
University Center for Human Values series
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University Center for Human Values series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
INTRODUCTION; GOODNESS AND ADVICE; Part One: Goodness; Part Two: Advice; COMMENTS; Philip Fisher; Martha C. Nussbaum; J.B. Schneewind; Barbara Herrnstein Smith; REPLY TO COMMENTATORS; Judith Jarvis Thomson; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; J; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; W. |
| Summary |
How should we live? What do we owe to other people? In Goodness and Advice, the eminent philosopher Judith Jarvis Thomson explores how we should go about answering such fundamental questions. In doing so, she makes major advances in moral philosophy, pointing to some deep problems for influential moral theories and describing the structure of a new and much more promising theory. Thomson begins by lamenting the prevalence of the idea that there is an unbridgeable gap between fact and value--that to say something is good, for example, is not to state a fact, but to do something more like expres. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Ethics.
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Ethics. |
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Consequentialism (Ethics)
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Consequentialism (Ethics) |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Fisher, Philip, 1941-
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Gutmann, Amy.
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| Added Title |
Goodness and advice |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Thomson, Judith Jarvis. Goodness & advice. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2001 0691086737 9780691086736 (DLC) 00048322 (OCoLC)45087441 |
| ISBN |
9781400824724 (electronic book) |
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1400824729 (electronic book) |
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