The Instructed Conscience
The Shaping of the American National Ethic
1st Edition
Published on 11. November 2016
224 pages
978-1-5128-0454-6 (ISBN)
Description
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
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Reprint 2016
Language
English
Place of publication
Pennsylvania
United States
Target group
College/higher education
ISBN-13
978-1-5128-0454-6 (9781512804546)
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- llustrations
- Introduction
- Part I: THE TEACHING OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY
- 1. Moral Philosophy and Its Uses
- 2. Representative Men
- 3. Assumptions and Attitudes
- Part II: MAN'S MORAL NATURE
- 4. The Legacy of the Scottish Enlightenment
- 5. Conscience
- 6. Will
- Part III: THE VIRTUOUS LIFE
- 7. Moral Education
- 8. The Performance of Duty
- 9. The Nature of True Virtue
- Part IV: MORAL GOVERNMENT
- 10. The Moral Law
- 11. Moral Government and Political Economy
- 12. A Moral Society
- Part V: AN AMERICAN MORAL PERSPECTIVE
- 13. The Passing of Moral Philosophy
- 14. Textbook Moralism and the Public Conscience
- Appendix I: Biographical
- Appendix II: Varieties of Ethical Theory
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
