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1 online resource (x, 392 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-381) and index. |
| Contents |
General Ethics -- and Its Problems -- Introduction: The Idea of a General Ethics -- Problems That Any General Ethics Must Be Able to Address II The Foundational Value of Responsive Cohesion -- Introducing the Idea of Responsive Cohesion -- The Best Approach to Everything -- Appendix to Chapter 4: A Note on the Concepts of Responsive Cohesion, Reflective Equilibrium, Organic Unity, Complex Systems, and So On -- The Best Approach to Conventional, Interhuman Ethics III Contexts, Mindsharers, and Iso-Experients -- The Theory of Responsive Cohesion's Theory of Contexts -- Exploring the Cognitive Worlds of Mindsharers and Iso-Experients -- Time Blindness, Autobiographical Death, and Our Obligations in Respect of All Beings IV Summary, Applications, and Concluding Thoughts -- Putting It All Together: The Shape of a General Ethics Worthy of the Name -- Applying the Theory of Responsive Cohesion. |
| Summary |
An integrated approach to ethics that covers interhuman ethics, the ethics of the natural environment (including animals), and the ethics of the built environment, and enables us to offer sensible and defensible answers to the widest possible range of eth. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Ethics.
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Ethics. |
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Nature -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Nature -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Nature. |
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Architecture -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Architecture -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Architecture. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Fox, Warwick. Theory of general ethics. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT, ©2006 0262062550 9780262062558 (DLC) 2006041044 (OCoLC)64592194 |
| ISBN |
9780262273053 (electronic book) |
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0262273055 (electronic book) |
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1282097873 |
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9781282097872 |
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0262062550 (alkaline paper) |
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9780262062558 (alkaline paper) |
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0262562197 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780262562195 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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