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Morality by degrees : reasons without demands / Alastair Norcross.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Norcross, Alastair, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Consequentialism (Ethics).
- Contextualism (Philosophy).
- Ethics.
- Conduct of life.
- Values.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 157 pages).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Reasons without demands
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- Alastair Norcross argues that the basic judgments of morality are essentially comparative: alternatives are judged to be better or worse than each other. Notions such as right and wrong are not part of the fundamental subject matter of moral theory, but are constructed in a context-relative fashion out of the basic comparative judgments.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The scalar approach to consequentialism
- Good and bad actions
- Harm
- Contextualism : Good, right, and harm
- Contextualism : Determinism, possibility, and the non-identity problem.
- Notes:
- This edition originally published: 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 11, 2020).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-258360-3
- 0-19-188036-1
- 0-19-258359-X
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