| Description |
428 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
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Prentice-Hall philosophy series
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Prentice-Hall philosophy series.
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| Contents |
Part 1: The deliberative questions -- Good judgment -- Utilitarian calculation, the ethics of Jeremy Bentham -- Casuistry -- Consistency with ideals, the ethics of Socrates and Plato -- Kant on consistency -- Stoic and pseudo-stoic on power -- Aristotle's golden mean -- The ethics of psychologists, Hobbes and Butler on selfishness -- The historical "logic" of Hegel and Marx -- Dewey's instrumental thinking -- The semantic approach to wisdom -- Part 2: Policy studies -- How to approach policy issues -- School policies in Chicago and Pasadena -- The "social unit" experiment in community organization -- Fernwood Park and caste attitudes -- Family decision -- Pragmatic policy making by labor unions and management -- Ward and Sears, expansion and business judgment -- Donald Nelson and the reconversion controversy -- The kings and the Tennessee -- The partition of Germany -- The cultivation of wisdom. |
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Ethics.
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Ethics. |
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Logic.
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Logic. |
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Morale -- Histoire. |
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Morale -- Cas, Études de. |
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