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Title Ethics and moral philosophy / edited by Thom Brooks
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (x, 418 pages)
Series Studies in moral philosophy ; v. 1
Studies in moral philosophy (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 1.
Contents Ethics and Moral Philosophy; Copyright; Contents; Notes on Previous Publication; List of Contributors; Introduction; Part I Practical Reason; Standards, Advice, and Practical Reason; Does Rationality Consist in Responding Correctly to Reasons?; Practical Reason, Value and Action; Normativity and Practical Judgement; Part II Particularism; Ethics Without Reasons?; Defending the Right; Part III Moral Realism; Moral and Theological Realism: The Explanatory Argument; Anti-Reductionism and Supervenience; Part IV Virtue Ethics; Aristotelean Virtue and the Interpersonal Aspect of Ethical Character
Virtue, Character and SituationPart V Ethics and Moral Philosophy; Doing Harm, Allowing Harm, and Denying Resources; Time-Relative Interests and Abortion; The Basis of Human Moral Status; The Mixed Solution to the Number Problem; Trivial Sacrifices, Great Demands; Essentialism and Anti-Essentialism in Feminist Philosophy; Bibliography; Index
Summary Ethics and moral philosophy is an area of particular interest today. This book brings together some of the most important essays in this area. Topics include practical reason, particularism, moral realism, virtue ethics, and ethics and moral philosophy more generally
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Ethics.
ethics (philosophy)
PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY -- Social.
Ethics
Ethik
Tugend
Form Electronic book
Author Brooks, Thom
ISBN 9789004215337
9004215336
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9781283326919
9004203427
9789004203426