Jonathan Harrison

Our Knowledge of Right and Wrong

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 2002. This is Volume VI of twelve in the Library of Philosophy series on Ethics. Written in 1971, this text looks at our knowledge of right and wrong and looks at topics of whether our knowledge of morality is a delusion and asks questions around moral judgment and they are subjective, the Universalization principle of a moral sense, God's commandments and human duties and finishes with suggestions of other reasons for actions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 410
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 514g
• ISBN-13: 9780415849104
• ISBN-10: 0415849101
• Artikelnr.: 37086825

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Harrison

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter I First-Order/Second-Order
Chapter II Is Knowledge of Morality a Delusion?
Chapter III Some Preliminary Distinctions
Chapter IV Moral Judgments As a Priori and Analytic: The Place of Demonstrative Reasoning in Ethics
Chapter V Moral Judgments as a priori and Synthetic: Intuitionism and the Naturalistic Fallacy
Chapter VI Moral Judgments as Synthetic, Contingent and Empirical: Subjectivism
Chapter VII Ideal Observer Theories
Chapter VIII Moral Sense Theories
The Universalization Principle
Chapter IX God's Commands and Man's Duties
Chapter X Morality and Moral Codes
Chapter XI Evolution and Ethics
Chapter XII Non-Propositional Theories
Chapter XIII Moral Judgment and Some Practical Uses of Language
Chapter XIV To Be or Not To Be
Chapter XV Some Other Moral Judgments
Chapter XVI Reasons for Action