Being good : an introduction to ethics

Simon Blackburn, author of the best-selling Think, structures this short introduction around these and other threats to ethics. Confronting seven different objections to our self-image as moral, well-behaved creatures, he charts a course through the philosophical quicksands that often engulf us. The...

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Main Author Blackburn, Simon, 1944-
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Subjects
Ethics.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9780191585876
9780191647314
9780192100528
9780192853776
Physical Description1 online zdroj (x, 162 stran) : ilustrace

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Table of Contents:
  • Seven threats to ethics: Death of God
  • Relativism
  • Egoism
  • Evolutionary theory
  • Determinism and futility
  • Unreasonable demands
  • False consciousness
  • Some ethical ideas: Birth
  • Death
  • Desire and the meaning of life
  • Pleasure
  • Greatest happiness of the greatest number
  • Freedom from the bad
  • Freedom and paternalism
  • Rights and natural rights
  • Foundations: Reasons and foundations
  • Being good and living well
  • Categorical imperative
  • Contracts and discourse
  • Common point of view
  • Confidence restored
  • Appendix: United Nations' universal declaration of human rights.

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