| Edition |
12th ed. |
| Description |
xi, 361 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Classical ethical traditions -- Knowledge / Plato -- Moral character / Aristotle -- The pleasant life / Epicurus -- Self-discipline / Epictetus -- The love of God / Saint Augustine -- Morality and natural law / Saint Thomas Aquinas -- Social contract ethics / Thomas Hobbes -- Nature and reason / Benedict de Spinoza -- Conscience in morality / Joseph Butler -- Morality and sentiment / David Hume -- Duty and reason / Immanuel Kant -- The greatest happiness principle / John Stuart Mill -- pt. 2. Modern continuations and critiques -- The leap of faith / Søren Kierkegaard -- Morality as ideology / Karl Marx -- Utilitarianism revised / Henry Sidgwick -- The transvaluation of values / Friedrich Nietzsche -- Scientific method in ethics / John Dewey -- The indefinability of good / G.E. Moore -- Prima facie duty / W.D. Ross -- Ethics as emotive expression / A.J. Ayer and C.L. Stevenson -- Radical freedom / Jean-Paul Sartre -- Good reasons in ethics / Kurt Baier -- The concept of morality / William K. Frankena -- Ethics and social justice / John Rawls -- Moral virtue and human interest / Philippa Foot -- Ethics as trusting in trust / Annette Baier -- Inventing right and wrong / J.L. Mackie -- Ethical skepticism / Bernard Williams -- Epilogue: Applied ethics. |
| Subject |
Ethics -- History.
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Ethics. |
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History. |
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Ethics.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Added Author |
Denise, Theodore Cullom, 1919-
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White, Nicholas, 1942-
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Peterfreund, Sheldon Paul, 1917-
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Great traditions in ethics. 12th ed. Australia ; Belmont, CA : Thomson/Wadsworth, ©2008 (OCoLC)647399992 |
| ISBN |
0495094986 |
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9780495094982 |
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