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The quest for moral foundations : an introduction to ethics / Montague Brown.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, 1996.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 173 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585178437
  • 9780585178431
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Quest for moral foundations.DDC classification:
  • 170 20
LOC classification:
  • BJ1012 .B737 1996eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Anything goes : relativism -- Do what you feel : emotionism -- Me first : egoism and the social contract -- All's well that ends well : utilitarianism -- Duty calls : Kant's formalism. Determination or freedom. Practical reasm -- Do good and avoid evil : natural law. Freedom and natural law -- Retrospective and reevaluation. Utilitarian theory. Social contact theory. Egoism. Emotionism. Relativism. Natural law and pluralism. Historicism -- Ethics and religion revisited. Ethics derived from religion. Religion as an ethical obligation. Moral importance of religion. Epilogue: To care or not to care.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-163) and index.).

Anything goes : relativism -- Do what you feel : emotionism -- Me first : egoism and the social contract -- All's well that ends well : utilitarianism -- Duty calls : Kant's formalism. Determination or freedom. Practical reasm -- Do good and avoid evil : natural law. Freedom and natural law -- Retrospective and reevaluation. Utilitarian theory. Social contact theory. Egoism. Emotionism. Relativism. Natural law and pluralism. Historicism -- Ethics and religion revisited. Ethics derived from religion. Religion as an ethical obligation. Moral importance of religion. Epilogue: To care or not to care.

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