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Ethics and qualities of life / Joel J. Kupperman.
LIBRA BJ1012 .K87 2007
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kupperman, Joel.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethics.
- Life.
- Quality of life--Philosophy.
- Quality of life.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 198 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Contents:
- Part I Factors in Ethical Judgment: From Atomistic Moral Decision to Goods, Construals, Character, and the Social Implications of Moral Judgments
- 1 Existential Choices and Dislocations 13
- 2 Construals, Valencing 23
- 3 The Relevance of Construal and Valencing to Good Choice 37
- 4 The Importance of Character 53
- 5 Personal Morality and Its Social Implications 65
- 6 Steps to Theory 79
- Part II Ethical Theory and Qualities of Life
- 7 The Bases of Ethical Theory 97
- 8 The Need for a Moral Order 111
- 9 The Logic of Consequentialism 123
- 10 Some Difficulties of Consequentialism 141
- 11 The Evolution of Ethical Theories 154
- 12 A Modulated Case for the Primacy of Value 165
- Appendix Virtue Ethics 183.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-194) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0195308190
- 9780195308198
- OCLC:
- 122941570
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