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Author Philips, Michael, 1942-

Title Between universalism and skepticism : ethics as social artifact / Michael Philips
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1994

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 213 pages)
Contents Introduction; 1. Intuitionism and Wide Reflective Equilibrium; 2. Reasons, Persons, and Contracts; 3. The Formal Conception of the Good; 4. Ethics as Social Artifact; 5. Evaluating Standards; 6. Goods and Evils; 7. Ethics and Agents; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
Summary This treatise defends a middle ground between the view that there is a set of standards binding all rational beings (universalism), and the view that differences in morals reduce ultimately to matters of taste (skepticism). It begins with a sustained critique of universalist moral thories
Analysis Ethics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Ethics.
Philosophy.
Ethics
Philosophy
ethics (philosophy)
philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
Ethics
Philosophy
Form Electronic book
LC no. 93024722
ISBN 1423738241
9781423738244
0195358783
9780195358780
1280442220
9781280442223