Interventions in Ethics
Published on 17. August 1992
Book
Paperback/Softback
301 pages
978-0-7914-0996-1 (ISBN)
Description
There is a growing need for interventions in ethics to counteract the tendency to generalize about moral issues. This book contains essays, written between 1965 and 1990, which focus on the need to explore such issues as the nature of moral endeavor, the request for a justification of moral endeavor; the appeal to human flourishing; the nature of the good life; the nature of moral change; and moral relativity. The author argues his case in relation to the work of contemporary philosophers including G.E.M. Anscombe, Annette Baier, Max Black, Cora Diamond, Ilham Dilman, Philippa Foot; Thomas Nagel, Alasdair MacIntyre, Bernard Williams, and Peter Winch.
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Edition
Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Albany, NY
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Total Illustrations: 0
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
490 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7914-0996-1 (9780791409961)
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D. Z. Phillips is Professor Philosophy at the University College of Swansea. He is the author of The Concept of Prayer; Death and Immortality; Faith and Philosophical Enquiry (with H. O. Mounce); Sense and Delusion (with Ilham Dilman); Athronyddu am Grefydd; Religion Without Explanation, Through a Darkening Glass; Dramau Gwenlyn Parry; Belief, Change and Forms of Life; R. S. Thomas: Poet of the Hidden God; Faith after Foundationalism, and From Fantasy to Faith. He is editor of Swansea Studies in Philosophy.
Content
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. On Morality's Having a Point (with H. O. Mounce)
2. Moral Practices and Anscombe's Grocer
3. The Possibilities of Moral Advice
4. Allegiance and Change in Morality: A Study in Contrasts
5. After Virtue?
6. The Presumption of Theory
7. What Can We Expect From Ethics?
8. Not in Front of the Children: Children and the Heterogeneity of Morals
9. Does It Pay To Be Good?
10. In Search of the Moral 'Must': Mrs Foot's Fugitive Thought
11. Do Moral Considerations Override Others?
12. An Argument From Extreme Cases?
13. Morality and Purpose
14. How Lucky Can You Get?
15. Some Limits to Moral Endeavour
16. Self-Knowledge and Pessimism
17. My Neighbour and My Neighbours
18. Philosophy and the Heterogeneity of the Human
19. Necessary Rewards, Necessary Punishments and Character
Notes
Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Subjects
Introduction
1. On Morality's Having a Point (with H. O. Mounce)
2. Moral Practices and Anscombe's Grocer
3. The Possibilities of Moral Advice
4. Allegiance and Change in Morality: A Study in Contrasts
5. After Virtue?
6. The Presumption of Theory
7. What Can We Expect From Ethics?
8. Not in Front of the Children: Children and the Heterogeneity of Morals
9. Does It Pay To Be Good?
10. In Search of the Moral 'Must': Mrs Foot's Fugitive Thought
11. Do Moral Considerations Override Others?
12. An Argument From Extreme Cases?
13. Morality and Purpose
14. How Lucky Can You Get?
15. Some Limits to Moral Endeavour
16. Self-Knowledge and Pessimism
17. My Neighbour and My Neighbours
18. Philosophy and the Heterogeneity of the Human
19. Necessary Rewards, Necessary Punishments and Character
Notes
Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Subjects