Lectures on ethics, 1946 / P.F. Strawson ; edited by Jonathan Dancy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Strawson, P. F., author.

Contributor:

Dancy, Jonathan, editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2024]

Summary:

This volume presents a series of lectures given by P. F. Strawson in the autumn term of 1946. The lectures contain the germ of Strawson's developed thought on freedom, moral attitudes, and ethical ideals, with an unusual level of attention being paid to contemporary psychological research.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title

Lectures on Ethics, 1946

Copyright

Contents

ECTURES ON ETHICS

Foreword by Jonathan Dancy

Elementary Ethics-​Lecture Scheme

1. The Disputes of Moral Philosophers

2. The Good and the Right

3. Action, End, Desire and Choice

4. Duty, Motive and Reason

5. Motive, Belief and Desire

6. The Dualism of Motive in Kant: Obligation

7. The Dualism in Motive: Egoistic Desires and Disinterested Desires

8. Moral Development: Duty, Motive and Instinct

9. The Genesis of Obligation: Duty and Reason

10. Duties and Goods and 'Rightness'

11. The Epistemological Question

12. The Analysis of Moral Judgements

13. The Problem of Freedom

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on August 29, 2024).

ISBN:

9780198931195

0198931190

9780198931171

0198931174

OCLC:

1453504634