
The Good Will
A Study in the Coherence Theory of Goodness
H. J. Paton(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 15. August 2002
Book
Hardback
450 pages
978-0-415-29575-8 (ISBN)
Description
First published in 2002. This is Volume X of twelve in the Library of Philosophy series on Ethics. Written in 1927, this book presents a study in the Coherence Theory of Goodness and looks at areas of will and its context, self and self-knowledge, the world and self and develops into the will as immediate and as individual. The book ends on will as both moral and social. It looks at goodness on two main sides The first is that goodness has its roots in the spiritual activity called willing; that it belongs to things, not in themselves, but as objects of some kind of willing. The second is that goodness belongs to the coherent will; that different kinds of goodness, whether in actions or in things, are due to the different kinds of coherence in the will which wills them; and that moral goodness in particular belongs to a will which. is coherent as a member of an all-inclusive, society of coherent wills.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
696 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-29575-8 (9780415295758)
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Person
H J Paton Fellow of the Queen's College, Oxford
Content
Chapter 1 Introductory; Part 1 The Will and its Context; Chapter 2 Goodness in Itself; Chapter 3 Self and Self-Knowledge; Chapter 4 The World and the Self; Part 2 The will as Immediate; Chapter 5 Elementary Willing; Chapter 6 The Immediate Good; Part 3 The will as Individual; Chapter 7 Policy; Chapter 8 The Individual Good; Chapter 9 The Individual Good; Part 4 The will as Social; Chapter 10 The Social Will; Chapter 11 The Social Will; Chapter 12 The Good Man; Part 5 The Will as Moral; Chapter 13 Aspects of Goodness; Chapter 14 The Moral Judgement; Chapter 15 Acceptance and Sacrifice; Chapter 16 The Saint and the Divine Society;