Tara Smith

Viable Values (eBook, ePUB)

A Study of Life as the Root and Reward of Morality

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Viable Values examines the most basic foundations of value and morality, demonstrating the shortcomings of major traditional views and proposing that morality is grounded in the objective requirements of human life. Smith argues that human beings need to be moral in order to live, explaining how life is the standard of morality, how flourishing is the proper end and reward of living morally, and how an intelligent egoism is the path to flourishing.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2000
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781442211919
• Artikelnr.: 39271455

Autorenporträt

Tara Smith

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 2 Why Be Moral?
Chapter 3 3 Intrinsic Value: A False Foundation
Chapter 4 4 Morality's Roots in Life
Chapter 5 5 Morality's Reward: Flourishing
Chapter 6 6 Principled Egoism: The Only Way to Live