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Record Nr.

UNINA9910970819903321

Autore

Benn Piers

Titolo

Ethics / / Piers Benn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : UCL Press, 1998

ISBN

1-135-36534-2

1-280-11024-4

1-135-36535-0

0-203-00329-2

9786610110247

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (238 p.)

Collana

Fundamentals of philosophy

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 bibliographies and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents

Sommario/riassunto

This introduction to ethics judiciously combines moral theory with applied ethics to give an opportunity for students to develop acute thinking About Ethical Matters.; The Author Begins  Motivating A Concern For moral discourse by dispelling often met objections over relativism and subjectivity.  interweaving normative and meta-ethical considerations, a convincing modern account of moral thinking emerges.; Moral theories - consequentialism, Kantianism, contractualism - are explained and illustrated in a way that holds the reader's attention, and students of ethics will take away a perceptive a