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_911775 _aBlackburn, Simon |
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_aBeing Good : _bA Short introduction to ethics / _cSimon Blackburn |
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_aNew York _bOxford University Press _c2001 |
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| 300 | _ax, 162p. : ill. ; 17cm | ||
| 500 | _aIt includes Appendix, Notes and further reading, Picture Credits, Bibliography and Index Pages. Description: It is not only in our dark hours that scepticism, relativism, hypocrisy, and nihilism dog ethics. Whether it is a matter of giving to charity, or sticking to duty, or insisting on our rights, we can be confused, or be paralysed by the fear that our principles are groundless. Many are afraid that in a Godless world science has unmasked us as creatures fated by our genes to be selfish and tribalistic, or competitive and aggressive. Simon Blackburn, author of the best-selling Think, structures this short introduction around these and other threats to ethics. Confronting seven different objections to our self-image as moral, well-behaved creatures, he charts a course through the philosophical quicksands that often engulf us. Then, turning to problems of life and death, he shows how we should think about the meaning of life, and how we should mistrust the sound-bite sized absolutes that often dominate moral debates. Finally he offers a critical tour of the ways the philosophical tradition has tried to provide foundations for ethics, from Plato and Aristotle through to contemporary debates. Table of Contents: Preface List of Illustrations Introduction Seven Threats to Ethics 1:The Threat of the Death of God 2:The Threat of Relativism 3:The Threat of Egoism 4:The Threat from Evolutionary Theory 5:The Threat of Determinism and Futility 6:The Threat of Unreasonable Demands 7:The Threat of False Consciousness Some Ethical Ideas 8:Birth 9:Death 10:Desire and the Meaning of Life 11:Pleasure 12:The Greatest Happiness of the Greatest Number 13:Freedom from the Bad 14:Freedom and Paternalism 15:Rights and Natural Rights Foundations? 16:Reasons and Foundations 17:Living Well and Doing Good 18:The Categorical Imperative 19:Contracts and Discourse 20:The Common Point of View 21:Confidence Restored Further Reading Index | ||
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_911776 _aEthics; Conduct of life; |
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