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Record Nr.

UNINA9910963080003321

Autore

Hurka Thomas <1952->

Titolo

Drawing morals : essays in ethical theory / / Thomas Hurka

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , [2011]

ISBN

0-19-933996-1

0-19-026754-2

1-283-42774-5

9786613427748

0-19-987670-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 276 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Oxford moral theory

Disciplina

170

Soggetti

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 index.

Nota di contenuto

Normative ethics : back to the future -- Value and population size -- The well-rounded life -- Monism, pluralism, and rational regret -- How great a good is virtue? -- Two kinds of organic unity -- Asymmetries in value -- Why value autonomy? -- Desert : holistic and individualistic -- Virtuous act, virtuous disposition -- Games and the good -- Rights and capital punishment -- Two kinds of satisficing -- The justification of national partiality -- Proportionality in the morality of war.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume contains selected essays in moral and political philosophy by Thomas Hurka. The essays address a wide variety of topics, from the well-rounded life and the value of playing games to proportionality in war and the ethics of nationalism. They al