1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910167159703321

Autore

Wilson Catherine

Titolo

Metaethics from a first person standpoint : an introduction to moral philosophy / / Catherine Wilson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Open Book Publishers, 2016

Cambridge, UK : , : Open Book Publishers, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

1-78374-201-1

2-8218-8169-X

1-78374-200-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 124 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

170.42

Soggetti

Metaethics

Ethics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Enquiry I --Enquiry II --Enquiry III --Enquiry IV -- Enquiry V --Enquiry VI --Enquiry VII --Enquiry VIII --Enquiry IX --Summary --Endnotes --Suggestions for further study.

Sommario/riassunto

"Metaethics from a First Person Standpoint addresses in a novel format the major topics and themes of contemporary metaethics, the study of the analysis of moral thought and judgement. Metathetics is less concerned with what practices are right or wrong than with what we mean by 'right' and 'wrong.' Looking at a wide spectrum of topics including moral language, realism and anti-realism, reasons and motives, relativism, and moral progress, this book engages students and general readers in order to enhance their understanding of morality and moral discourse as cultural practices. Catherine Wilson innovatively employs a first-person narrator to report step-by-step an individual's reflections, beginning from a position of radical scepticism, on the possibility of objective moral knowledge. The reader is invited to follow along with this reasoning, and to challenge or agree with each major point. Incrementally, the narrator is led to certain definite conclusions about 'oughts' and norms in connection with self-interest,



prudence, social norms, and finally morality. Scepticism is overcome, and the narrator arrives at a good understanding of how moral knowledge and moral progress are possible, though frequently long in coming. Accessibly written, Metaethics from a First Person Standpoint presupposes no prior training in philosophy and is a must-read for philosophers, students and general readers interested in gaining a better understanding of morality as a personal philosophical quest."--Publisher's website.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910145504403321

Titolo

Veterinary surgery

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[San Diego, CA], : Harcourt Health Sciences

ISSN

1532-950X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

636

Soggetti

Veterinary surgery

Veterinary Medicine

General Surgery

Societies, Medical

veterinary medicine

surgery

Chirurgie vétérinaire

Médecine vétérinaire

Chirurgie

surgery (health care function)

Cirurgia veterinària

Periodical

Internet resource

periodicals.

Periodicals.

Périodiques.

Revistes electròniques.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa



Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed

Published by: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2004-