Good and evil : an absolute conception / Raimond Gaita.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gaita, Raimond, 1946- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Good and evil.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (412 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 1991, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Good and Evil: An Absolute Conception, Raimond Gaita draws moral philosophy away from the academic study of ethics and considers instead how real people actually talk and feel about morality, using good and evil as examples.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface to the first edition; Preface to the second edition; Acknowledgements for the first edition; EVIL AND UNCONDITIONAL RESPECT; THE SCOPE OF ACADEMIC MORAL PHILOSOPHY; MORTAL MEN AND RATIONAL BEINGS; REMORSE AND ITS LESSONS; EVIL DONE AND EVIL SUFFERED; NATURALISM; MODALITIES; MEANING; INDIVIDUALITY; 'AN ATTITUDE TOWARDS A SOUL'; GOODNESS; ETHICAL OTHER-WORLDLINESS; 'THE REPUDIATION OF MORALITY'; ETHICS AND POLITICS; MORAL UNDERSTANDING; TRUTH; FEARLESS THINKERS AND EVIL THOUGHTS; Afterword; Notes; Index;

Notes:

First published 1991 by Macmillan.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-31902-9

1-84426-326-6

0-203-60251-X

1-134-31903-7

1-280-06435-8

0-203-48912-8

9780203489123

OCLC:

475897208