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1 online resource (viii, 242 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-236) and index. |
| Summary |
By distinguishing between 2 different levels of moral thinking, we see how utilitarian reasoning at the critical level - enlisting impartial sympathy for others' predicaments, which we must have if we fully understand them and universalize our preferences as morality requires - generates moral principles for use at the intuitive level. |
| Contents |
PART I. LEVELS; 1. Introduction; 2. Moral Conflicts; 3. The Archangel and the Prole; 4. Descriptivism and the Error Theory; PART II. METHOD; 5. Another's Sorrow; 6. Universalization; 7. Interpersonal Comparison; 8. Loyalty and Evil Desires; 9. Rights and Justice; PART III. POINT; 10. Fanaticism and Amoralism; 11. Prudence, Morality and Supererogation; 12. Objectivity and Rationality; REFERENCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Ethics.
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Ethics. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hare, R.M. (Richard Mervyn). Moral thinking. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford Univ. Press, ©1981 0198246595 9780198246596 (DLC) 82140454 (OCoLC)8785577 |
| ISBN |
0198246595 |
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9780198246596 |
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0198246609 (paperback) |
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9780198246602 (paperback) |
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9780191519871 (electronic book) |
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0191519871 (electronic book) |
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