Ethics and moral philosophy [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Thom Brooks

• Pubblicazione: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (428 p.)
• Disciplina: 170
• Soggetto topico: Ethics
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: BrooksThom
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material / Thom Brooks -- Introduction / Thom Brooks -- Practical Reason Standards, Advice, and Practical Reason / Chrisoula Andreou -- Does Rationality Consist in Responding Correctly to Reasons? / John Broome -- Practical Reason, Value and Action / Alison Hills -- Normativity and Practical Judgement / Onora O’Neill -- Particularism Ethics Without Reasons? / Roger Crisp -- Defending the Right / Jonathan Dancy -- Moral Realism Moral and Theological Realism: The Explanatory Argument / Russ Shafer-Landau -- Anti-Reductionism and Supervenience / Michael Ridge -- Virtue Ethics Han Feizi’s Criticism of Confucianism and Its Implications for Virtue Ethics / Eric L. Hutton -- Aristotelian Virtue and the Interpersonal Aspect of Ethical Character / Maria W. Merritt -- Good but Not Required?—Assessing the Demands of Kantian Ethics / Jens Timmermann -- Virtue, Character and Situation / Jonathan Webber -- Ethics and Moral Philosophy Doing Harm, Allowing Harm, and Denying Resources / Timothy Hall -- Time-Relative Interests and Abortion / S. Matthew Liao -- The Basis of Human Moral Status / S. Matthew Liao -- The Mixed Solution to the Number Problem / Martin Peterson -- Trivial Sacrifices, Great Demands / William Sin -- Essentialism and Anti-Essentialism in Feminist Philosophy / Alison Stone -- Bibliography / Thom Brooks -- Index / Thom Brooks.
• Sommario/riassunto: Ethics and moral philosophy is an area of particular interest today. This book brings together some of the most important essays in this area. The essays have all appeared recently in the Journal of Moral Philosophy , an internationally recognized leading philosophy journal. This book is divided into five sections: practical reason, particularism, moral realism, virtue ethics, and ethics and moral philosophy more generally.
• Titolo autorizzato: Ethics and moral philosophy
• ISBN: 1-283-32691-4; 9786613326911; 90-04-21533-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910457956703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in moral philosophy ; ; v. 1.