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Understanding human goods : a theory of ethics / T.D.J. Chappell.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, �1998.Description: 1 online resource (x, 218 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585086729
  • 9780585086729
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Understanding human goods.DDC classification:
  • 170 21
LOC classification:
  • BJ1012 .C4547 1998eb
Other classification:
  • 08.38
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Three Foundational Questions for Ethics. 1.1. What is the Point of Acting? 1.2. What is the Good? 1.3. What is Human Excellence? 1.4. The Three Questions Connected; and a Working Hypothesis -- 2. The Basic Goods. 2.1. How to Arrive at a Taxonomy of Motivations and of Goods. 2.2. A Taxonomy of the Basic Goods. 2.3. The Basic Goods and the Problem of Egoism. 2.4. Are the Basic Goods Objective? 2.5. Goods and Goods-for. 2.6. Conclusion -- 3. The Threefold Schema. 3.1. Why Pluralists can't be Maximisers. 3.2. A First Attempt on the Problem of Reconciliation. 3.3. A Parallel; and Another Argument for the Schema. 3.4. Material Absolutes, Commitments, and the Virtues. 3.5. Six Attractions of the Threefold Schema. 3.6. Two Objections. 3.7. Conclusion -- 4. Persons and Identities. 4.1. Personal Identity and Personal Integrity. 4.2. Against Reductionism. 4.3. What Matters about Personal Identity. 4.4. Persons as Substances. Endnote: Williams on Abortion -- 5. Two Conceptions of the Good. 5.1. Three Criticisms of the List Conception of the Goods. 5.2. The Narrative Conception of the Good -- 6. Narrative Conceptions Examined. 6.1. Three Objections to the Narrative Conception of the Person. 6.2. Eight Objections to the Narrative Conception of the Good. 6.3. Eight Objections to the Narrative Conception of Rationality. 6.4. Freedom of the Will. 6.5. Conclusion.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-216) and index.

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1. Three Foundational Questions for Ethics. 1.1. What is the Point of Acting? 1.2. What is the Good? 1.3. What is Human Excellence? 1.4. The Three Questions Connected; and a Working Hypothesis -- 2. The Basic Goods. 2.1. How to Arrive at a Taxonomy of Motivations and of Goods. 2.2. A Taxonomy of the Basic Goods. 2.3. The Basic Goods and the Problem of Egoism. 2.4. Are the Basic Goods Objective? 2.5. Goods and Goods-for. 2.6. Conclusion -- 3. The Threefold Schema. 3.1. Why Pluralists can't be Maximisers. 3.2. A First Attempt on the Problem of Reconciliation. 3.3. A Parallel; and Another Argument for the Schema. 3.4. Material Absolutes, Commitments, and the Virtues. 3.5. Six Attractions of the Threefold Schema. 3.6. Two Objections. 3.7. Conclusion -- 4. Persons and Identities. 4.1. Personal Identity and Personal Integrity. 4.2. Against Reductionism. 4.3. What Matters about Personal Identity. 4.4. Persons as Substances. Endnote: Williams on Abortion -- 5. Two Conceptions of the Good. 5.1. Three Criticisms of the List Conception of the Goods. 5.2. The Narrative Conception of the Good -- 6. Narrative Conceptions Examined. 6.1. Three Objections to the Narrative Conception of the Person. 6.2. Eight Objections to the Narrative Conception of the Good. 6.3. Eight Objections to the Narrative Conception of Rationality. 6.4. Freedom of the Will. 6.5. Conclusion.

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