The scope of morality / Peter A. French.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

French, Peter A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1979.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The scope of morality, Peter A. French contends, is much narrower than many traditional and contemporary works in ethical theory suggest. We trivialize morality if we think it has something to say about everything we do; it touches us all, but not at all

Contents:

Acknowledgments; Preface; Contents; Chapter 1 Persons as Agents: Membership in the Moral Community; Chapter 2 MORALITY: Morals and Euergetics; Chapter 3 An Extension of the Montesquieu Conjecture; Chapter 4 The Role of Model Building: Lifeboats, the Spaceship, and the System; Chapter 5 Moral Concepts and Their Function in Discourse: Contemplating Murder; Chapter 6 Institutional and Moral Obligations, or Merels and Morals; Chapter 7 ""He wos wery good to me, he wos!"": Eurgetical Concepts; Chapter 8 Faint Hearts and Fair Ladies; Appendix: Senses of ""Blame""; Notes; Selected Bibliography

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-205) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-6248-7

OCLC:

476162054