The diversity of moral thinking / Neil Cooper
1981, First Edition. Oxford New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #430867
ISBN: 0198244231
Physical description; viii, 303 pages ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-296) and index. Contents; Introduction -- Part I. What a morality is: 1. The logic of morals -- 2. The concept of a morality -- 3. Desires and moralities (1) -- 4. Desires and moralities (2) -- 5. Evaluation, prescription, and two logical gaps -- 6. The practical hierarchy -- Part II. The demise of objectivity: Introduction -- 7. Logical freedom of dissent -- 8. No cutting edge -- 9. Morals and objectivity -- Part III. What a morality ought to be: Introduction -- 10. Aspects of a morality (1): general -- 11. Aspects of a morality (2): constraints -- 12. Purposes of moral language -- 13. Reasons in moralities -- 14. Two higher-order antinomies -- 15. The emergence of altruism -- 16. Altruism and beyond. Subjects; Ethics. Morals. ethics (philosophy). Communism Ethical foundations. Existentialism In ethical theory. Humanistic ethics. Justification (Christian theology) In ethics. Duty Philosophical aspects. Well-being. Socialism Ethical foundations.
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