Essays on the foundations of ethics / Clarence Irving Lewis ; edited by John Lange.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lewis, Clarence Irving, 1883-1964, author.

Contributor:

Lange, John, 1931- editor.

Standardized Title:

Essays. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Physical Description:

xx, 245 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2017]

Summary:

C.I. Lewis, one of America?s greatest philosophers, was tremendously influential in the fields of logic and epistemology. However, it was to ethics that he devoted the last years of his life. His approach to ethics was not merely as an academic pursuit, but as the deepest and most fundamental challenge of human life, older than philosophy itself: how should one respond to the necessity of action, and cope with the imposed, unforgiving imperatives of self-governance? Drawing from volumes of Lewis?s hand-inscribed notes and drafts, John Lange has assembled a version of Lewis?s final book, Essays on the Foundations of Ethics, bringing to light his desire to locate and articulate those moral realities which he found to be part of an enlightened common sense, a common sense to be expected in an evolved, self-governing, rational human nature.

Contents:

Introduction: about philosophy in general and ethics in particular

The good and bad in experience: prolegomena

The good and bad in experience

Semantics of the imperative

Ethics and the logical

Deliberate acts

Right acts and good acts

Right doing and the right to do

We approach the normative finalities.

Other Format:

Online version: Lewis, Clarence Irving, 1883-1964. Essays on the foundations of ethics.

ISBN:

9781438464930

1438464932

OCLC:

957414366