Common morality [[electronic resource] ] : deciding what to do / / Bernard Gert

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910450089603321
• Autore: Gert Bernard <1934->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2004
• ISBN: 0-19-531421-2; 1-280-55919-5; 9786610559190; 0-19-803872-0; 1-4237-2092-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (202 p.)
• Disciplina: 170/.44
• Soggetti: Ethics; Electronic books.
• 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 (p. 153-162) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Some Areas of Widespread Agreement""; ""Distinguishing Features of Moral Judgments""; ""Rationality and Human Nature""; ""Areas of Moral Disagreement""; ""Analogy between Morality and Grammar""; ""Part I: The Moral System""; ""Features of the Moral System""; ""The Moral Rules""; ""The Moral Ideals""; ""General Characteristics of Moral Rules""; ""To whom do the rules apply?""; ""Whom do the moral rules protect?""; ""Interpreting the Rules""; ""1. ""Do not kill.""""; ""2. ""Do not cause pain.""""; ""3. ""Do not disable.""""; ""4. ""Do not deprive of freedom.""""""5. ""Do not deprive of pleasure.""""; ""Summary of the first five rules""; ""6. ""Do not deceive.""""; ""7. ""Keep your promises.""""; ""8. ""Do not cheat.""""; ""9. ""Obey the law.""""; ""10. ""Do your duty.""""; ""Violations of Moral Rules Involve Liability to Punishment""; ""Justifying Violations of the Moral Rules""; ""The Two-Step Procedure for Justifying Violations of the Moral Rules""; ""The first step: Using the morally relevant features to describe the act""; ""The second step: Estimating the consequences of everyone knowing that a kind of violation is allowed and that it is not allowed""""Moral ; Virtues and Vices""; ""Summary and Test""; ""Part II: The Moral Theory""; ""The Justification of Morality""; ""Characteristics of Moral Agents""; ""Knowledge or Beliefs Required of All Moral Agents""; ""Irrationality and Rationality""; ""Rationality as Maximizing Satisfaction of Desires""; ""Objectively Irrational Actions""; ""Personally Irrational Actions""; ""Reasons versus Motives""; ""All Reasons Have Justifying Force""; ""Reasons and Desires""; ""Adequate Reasons""""Rationality, Morality, and Self-Interest""; ""Impartiality""; ""Two Philosophical Attempts to Achieve Moral Impartiality""; ""Justifying Moral Impartiality""; ""Why morality requires impartiality with respect to the moral rules""; ""The group with regard to which morality requires impartiality""; ""Why Act Morally?""; ""Morality as an Informal Public System""; ""The Role of Governments in Settling Unresolvable Moral Disagreements""; ""Rights""; ""The Consequences of Morality Not Always Providing a Unique Correct Answer""; ""A Complete Moral Theory""; ""Conclusion""; ""Flow Charts""""Rationality""; ""Morality""; ""Notes""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""
• Sommario/riassunto: Describing the moral system that is commonly used by people when they are making thoughtful moral decisions and judgments, this book then goes on to analyse the concepts of rationality and impartiality, and of morality as a public system that is known by all normal adults.