| Autore |
Pleger Wolfgang
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| Edizione | [First edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
Berlin, Germany : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2023]
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| Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (349 pages)
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| Disciplina |
929.374
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| Soggetto topico |
Ethics
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| ISBN |
3-476-05969-3
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- I Ancient Ethics of Happiness -- 1 Dialogic Reason (Plato) -- 2 The Happiness of Theory (Aristotle) -- 3 The Tranquility of the Soul (Hellenistic Ethics) -- II Faith and Reason-Philosophical Theological Ethics -- 1 The Beatitude in the Hereafter (Augustine) -- 2 Reason and Grace (Thomas von Aquin) -- 3 'Faith Alone' (Luther/Kierkegaard) -- III The Moral Sense-Ethics and Metaethics -- 1 "Moral Sense"-The Moral Sense (Hutcheson) -- 2 Reason and Feeling (Hume) -- 3 The Emotive Nature of Moral Judgments (Ayer/Stevenson) -- IV Practical Reason-The Ethics of Duty -- 1 The Duties of the Person (Cicero) -- 2 The Categorical Imperative (Kant) -- 3 Freedom and Duty (Fichte) -- V Happiness and Utility-Utilitarianism -- 1 The Greatest Happiness of the Greatest Number (Bentham) -- 2 The Principle of Utility (Mill) -- 3 Cost-Benefit Analysis as a Calculus of Happiness (Singer) -- VI Value Ethics -- 1 Life Itself-The Highest Value (Dewey) -- 2 The 'Valuing' (Scheler) -- 3 The Ideal Realm of Values (Hartmann) -- VII The Development of Morals-Genetic Concepts of Ethics -- 1 The Evolution of Conscience (Darwin) -- 2 It, I and 'Super-I' (Freud) -- 3 The Moral Development of the Child (Piaget/Kohlberg) -- VIII Education and Cultural Training-Pedagogical Ethics -- 1 Principles of a Natural Education (Rousseau) -- 2 Individual Education and Political Freedom (W. v. Humboldt) -- 3 The Fight for the Rights of the Child (Montessori) -- IX Concepts of Radical Moral Criticism -- 1 The "Right of the Stronger" (Sophists) -- 2 Criticism of "Class Morality" (Marx/Engels) -- 3 Critique of the "Slave Morality" (Nietzsche) -- X Between Ideology and Reason-On Political Ethics -- 1 Totalitarianism and Democracy (Arendt) -- 2 Global Capitalism and Welfare State (Hayek) -- 3 'Unleashed Technology' and Ecology (Jonas).
XI Responsibility and Discourse Ethics -- 1 Ethics of Conviction and Responsibility Ethic (Weber) -- 2 Freedom and responsibility (Sartre) -- 3 Communicative reason and discourse (Apel/Habermas) -- XII Ethics and Universal Human Rights -- 1 Pragmatic Freedom and Reasonable Identity in the Context of Ethics -- 2 Freedom and Equality-On the Prehistory of the Declaration of Human Rights -- 3 The Declaration of Human Rights (1789/1948)-An Unfinished Project -- References.
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| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910754096003321 |
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The Good Life : An Introduction to Ethics / / Wolfgang Pleger and Barbara Pleger
