Walls and vaults [[electronic resource] ] : a natural science of morals (virtue ethics according to David Hume) / / Jordan Howard Sobel

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910830934003321
• Autore: Sobel Jordan Howard
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hoboken, N.J., : John Wiley & Sons, c2009
• ISBN: 1-282-24271-7; 9786613813831; 1-118-03160-1; 1-118-03059-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (430 p.)
• Disciplina: 170.92
• Soggetti: Virtue; 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 and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: I. Introduction -- Pt. 1. Analysis and metaphysics--semantics, pragmatics, and logic -- II. Virtue and vice -- III. Moral judgments -- IV. Species bias -- Pt. 2. Normative theories -- V. Virtues agreeable and useful -- VI. Hume's theory of right and wrong actions -- Pt. 3. An everywhere relevant distinction -- VII. That species of utility that attends justice -- VIII. The logical possibility of justice utility -- IX. The real possibility of justice utility : how systems with it come to be and are maintained -- Pt. 4. And now at last the "first" question -- X. Our interested obligation to virtue : why be moral?.
• Sommario/riassunto: This unique book provides a modern discussion of David Hume's work in ethical theory and moral judgment Widely regarded as one of the most important philosophers in Western thinking, David Hume contributed significant works that profoundly influenced the study of ethics and morality. Now, in Walls and Vaults, internationally renowned author Jordan Howard Sobel blends Hume's moral theory with his own groundbreaking observations and employs mathematical thought to explore timeless questions about the grounds of morality, the organization of moral principles, and the rationale for