Normative Ethics
1st Edition
Published on 28. August 2019
Book
Hardback
352 pages
978-0-367-31704-1 (ISBN)
Description
Providing a thorough introduction to current philosophical views on morality, Normative Ethics examines an act's rightness or wrongness in light of such factors as consequences, harm, and consent. Shelly Kagan offers a division between moral factors and theoretical foundations that reflects the actual working practices of contemporary moral philoso
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
658 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-367-31704-1 (9780367317041)
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Normative Ethics
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Person
Shelly Kagan is professor of philosophy and Henry R. Luce Professor of Social Thought and Ethics at Yale University. He is the author of The Limits of Morality.
Content
1 Preliminaries, PART I FACTORS, 2 The Good, 3 Doing Harm, 4 Other Constraints, 5 Further Factors, PART 2 FOUNDATIONS, 6 Teleological Foundations, 7 Deontological Foundations