The definition of good / A.C. Ewing.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ewing, A. C. (Alfred Cyril), 1899-1973, author.

Series:

Routledge revivals.

Routledge revivals

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Good and evil.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (227 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

First published in Great Britain in 1948, this book examines the definition of goodness as being distinct from the question of What things are good? Although less immediately and obviously practical, Dr. Ewing argues that the former question is more fundamental since it raises the issue of whether ethics is explicable wholly in terms of something else, for example, human psychology. Ewing states in his preface that the definition of goodness needs to be confirmed before one decides on the place value is to occupy in our conception of reality or on the ultimate characteristics which

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; PREFACE; Table of Contents; I. SUBJECTIVISM; II. NATURALISM; III. THE COHERENCE THEORY OF ETHICS, AND SOME OTHER NON-NATURALIST DEFINITIONS OF THE FUNDAMENTAL ETHICAL TERMS; IV. DIFFERENT MEANINGS OF ""GOOD"" AND ""OUGHT""; V. AN ANALYSIS OF GOOD IN TERMS OF OUGHT; VI. CONSEQUENCES OF THE ANALYSIS FOR A GENERAL THEORY OF ETHICS; INDEX

Notes:

"First published in Great Britain in 1948 by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-20830-5

0-203-09462-X

1-299-28582-1

1-136-20831-3

9780203094624

OCLC:

831119441