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Ethics : twelve lectures on the philosophy of morality

By: Wiggins, David.
Publisher: Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2006Description: x,393 p.; 22 cm.ISBN: 9780674034983.Subject(s): 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 ethicsDDC classification: 170 WIG Summary: 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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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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