The point of view of the universe : Sidgwick and contemporary ethics / Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Singer.
2014
170 L431p 2014
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Title
The point of view of the universe : Sidgwick and contemporary ethics / Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Singer.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780199603695 (hbk.)
0199603693 (hbk.)
0199603693 (hbk.)
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Language
English
Description
xvi, 403 pages ; 24 cm
Call Number
170 L431p 2014
System Control No.
(OCoLC)879398259
(OCoLC)879398259
(OCoLC)879398259
Summary
Tests the views and metaphor of 19th-century utilitarian philosopher Henry Sidgwick against a variety of contemporary views on ethics, determining that they are defensible and thus providing a defense of objectivism in ethics and of hedonistic utilitarianism.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-398) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
What is ethics?
Reason and action
Intuition and the morality of common sense
Justification in ethics
The axioms of ethics
The profoundest problem of ethics
The origins of ethics and the unity of practical reason
Ultimate good, part I : perfectionism and desire-based theory
Ultimate good, part II : hedonism
Rules
Demandingness
Distribution.
Reason and action
Intuition and the morality of common sense
Justification in ethics
The axioms of ethics
The profoundest problem of ethics
The origins of ethics and the unity of practical reason
Ultimate good, part I : perfectionism and desire-based theory
Ultimate good, part II : hedonism
Rules
Demandingness
Distribution.
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