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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811030003321

Autore

Philips Michael <1942->

Titolo

Between universalism and skepticism : ethics as social artifact / / Michael Philips

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1994

ISBN

0-19-773001-9

1-280-44222-0

0-19-535878-3

1-4237-3824-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 213 pages)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

171/.7

Soggetti

Ethics

Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 1994.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; 1. Intuitionism and Wide Reflective Equilibrium; 2. Reasons, Persons, and Contracts; 3. The Formal Conception of the Good; 4. Ethics as Social Artifact; 5. Evaluating Standards; 6. Goods and Evils; 7. Ethics and Agents; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This treatise defends a middle ground between the view that there is a set of standards binding all rational beings (universalism), and the view that differences in morals reduce ultimately to matters of taste (skepticism). It begins with a sustained critique of universalist moral thories.