Right actions and good persons : controversies between eudaimonistic and deontic moral theories / Marjaana Kopperi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kopperi, Marjaana.

Series:

Avebury series in philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Duty.

Ethics.

Happiness.

Conduct of life.

Physical Description:

vii, 131 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate, [1999]

Contents:

2 Morality in Ancient and Modern Theories 6

The good and the moral good 8

Morality and happiness in modern ethics 12

Prudence and morality in ancient ethics 16

The good of others in ancient ethics 18

The notion of respect 22

The teleological view of human nature 26

Human nature as a basis of modern moral theory 28

3 Ethics and the Good Life 42

The cultivation of character as a prerequisite for morality 44

The necessary conditions of the good life 49

Basic goods and the good life 55

Charles Taylor and the ethics of inarticulacy 59

The ethics of authenticity 62

Morality and substantive conceptions of the good 64

4 Contextual Justification of Morality 77

John Rawls's political liberalism 79

The scope and justification of liberal doctrine 83

From metaphysics to rhetoric: a rhetorical turn 87

Comprehensive and partial forms of liberal doctrine 90

From principles of right to the conception of the good: a teleological turn 92

Rawls as a modus vivendi liberal? 95

Ethics without metaphysics 97

Rhetoric, metaphysics and modus vivendi-liberalism 101

5 Moral Obligation and the Meaningful Life 109

Why distinguish between basic goods and the conceptions of the good life? 110

My life and the good of others 116

Acts and agents 119.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1840149027

OCLC:

40981324