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1 online resource (xi, 244 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-237) and index. |
| Contents |
1. Early twentieth-century intuitionism -- Henry Sidgwick: three kinds of ethical intuitionism -- G.E. Moore as a philosophical intuitionist -- H.A. Prichard and the reassertion of dogmatic intuitionism -- C.D. Broad and the concept of fittingness -- W.D. Ross and the theory of prima facie duty -- Intuitions, intuitionism, and reflection -- 2. Rossian intuitionism as a contemporary ethical theory -- The Rossian appeal to self-evidence -- Two types of self-evidence -- Resources and varieties of moderate intuitionism -- Disagreement, incommensurability, and the charge of dogmatism -- Intuitive moral judgment and rational action -- 3. Kantian intuitionism -- The possibility of systematizing Rossian principles -- A Kantian integration of intuitionist principles -- Kantian intuitionism as a development of Kantian ethics -- Between the middle axioms and moral decision: the multiple grounds of obligation -- 4. Rightness and goodness -- Intrinsic value and the grounding of reasons for action -- Intrinsic value and prima facie duty -- The autonomy of ethics -- Deontological constraints and agent-relative reasons -- The unity problem for intuitionist ethics -- 5. Intuitionism in normative ethics -- Five methods in normative ethical reflection -- The need for middle theorems -- Some dimensions of beneficence -- Toward a comprehensive intuitionist ethics. |
| Summary |
This book represents the most comprehensive account to date of an important but widely contested approach to ethics--intuitionism, the view that there is a plurality of moral principles, each of which we can know directly. Robert Audi casts intuitionism in a form that provides a major alternative to the more familiar ethical perspectives (utilitarian, Kantian, and Aristotelian). He introduces intuitionism in its historical context and clarifies--and improves and defends--W.D. Ross's influential formulation. Bringing Ross out from under the shadow of G.E. Moore, he puts a reconstructed versio. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Ross, W. D. (William David), 1877-1971.
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Ross, W. D. (William David), 1877-1971. |
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Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804 -- Ethics.
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Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804. |
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Ethics. |
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Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804 -- Ethics. |
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Ross, W. D. (William David), 1877-1971. |
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Ethical intuitionism.
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Ethical intuitionism. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Audi, Robert, 1941- Good in the right. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2004 069111434X 9780691114347 (DLC) 2003051738 (OCoLC)52178202 |
| ISBN |
9781400826070 (electronic book) |
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1400826071 (electronic book) |
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069111434X |
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