Ethics and experience : life beyond moral theory / Timothy Chappell

Author: Chappell, T. D. J. (Timothy D. J.)
Published: Montreal [Quebec] ; Ithaca [New York] : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2009]
Beaconsfield, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2014.
Copyright Date: ©2009
Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 229 pages) : illustrations

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Contents

The turn to reason: how human beings got ethical -- Demarcation: what does "ethical" mean? -- Motivation: why be moral? -- Deliberation: the question of reason Introducing subjectivism and objectivism -- Five arguments for ethical subjectivism -- The content of ethics: expressivism, error theory, objectivism again -- Virtue ethics -- Utilitarianism -- Kantianism and contractarianism -- Theory and insight in ethics.

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9780773594814 (electronic bk.)
0773594817 (electronic bk.)
9780773536418 (bound)
0773536418 (bound)
9780773536425 (paperback)
0773536426 (paperback)

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-225) and index.

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