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Record Nr.

UNINA9910974518103321

Autore

Gensler Harry J. <1945->

Titolo

Formal ethics / / Harry J. Gensler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1996

ISBN

1-134-79117-8

1-134-79118-6

1-283-70784-5

1-280-06303-3

9786610063031

0-203-01637-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (213 p.)

Disciplina

170

Soggetti

Ethics

Social 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 (p. [198]-208) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; What Is Formal Ethics?; Logicality; Conscientiousness; Impartiality; The Golden Rule; Universal Law; Moral Rationality; Symbolic Logic; Bibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Combines "hard" logic and supposedly "soft" ethics in order to formulate ethical principles more clearly, to organize them into a defensible system, and to help us think more rationally about morality.