Between universalism and skepticism : ethics as social artifact / Michael Philips.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Philips, Michael, 1942- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 213 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This treatise defends a middle ground between the view that there is a set of standards binding all rational beings (universalism), and the view that differences in morals reduce ultimately to matters of taste (skepticism). It begins with a sustained critique of universalist moral thories.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; 1. Intuitionism and Wide Reflective Equilibrium; 2. Reasons, Persons, and Contracts; 3. The Formal Conception of the Good; 4. Ethics as Social Artifact; 5. Evaluating Standards; 6. Goods and Evils; 7. Ethics and Agents; Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1994.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-773001-9

1-280-44222-0

0-19-535878-3

1-4237-3824-1

OCLC:

191929729