Wiggins, David

Ethics : twelve lectures on the philosophy of morality - Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2006 - x,393 p.; 22 cm

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This is a history of ethical thought gathering insights from Aristotle, Hume, Kant and many others. It is also a speculative work about the moral motive and the content of morality. It argues that most of the questions that have obssessed 20th century authors are to do with the variety and quality of moral argument.

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Ethics
Artificial Virtues
Benevolence
Clear indistinct ideas
Contextualism
Deontological ideas
Difference principle
Essential contestablity
Evil
Goodwill
Hume's Circle
Intrinsicalism
Justice
Moral Scepticism
Non -Cognitivism
Objectivism , moral
Persuasion
Relativism
Reason
Self -love
Sympathy
Utilitarianism
Virtue ethics

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