Subject |
Ethics.
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Descript |
xvii, 333 p. ; 24 cm. |
Contents |
Ethics and religion: does religion undercut ethics or provide vital support for ethics? -- Reason, objectivity, and ethics: can reason guide us to objective ethical truths? -- Is ethics based on a social contract? -- Can consequentialism make room for friendship? -- Morality: universal principles of justice or specific caring relationships? -- Do moral obligations always take precedence? -- Do women have a distinctive ethical perspective? -- Can virtue theory offer moral direction? -- Does contemporary psychological research threaten virtue theory? -- Is moral psychology relevant to moral philosophy? -- How did moral behavior develop? -- Pragmatism and the dispute over value objectivity -- Is morality relative to culture or objectively and universally true? -- Is cultural relativism a helpful approach to ethics? -- Is morality an ideological illusion? |
Alt author |
Waller, Bruce N., 1946- editor.
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ISBN |
0321354478 (alk. paper) |
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9780321354471 (alk. paper) |
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