Ethics and Social Survival

ISBN-13: 9781138646551 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 236 str.

Milton Fisk;¬Abar;¬Abar

Opis

Ethics and Social Survival rejects theories that treat ethics as having justification within itself and contends that ethics can have a grip on humans only if it serves their deep-seated need to live together. It takes a social-survival view of ethical life and its norms by arguing that ethics looks to society not for regimentation by customs, but rather for the viability of society.

Spis treści

Preface: Why be ethical?  Part I: Basics  1. Social Viability as the Goal of Ethical Life  2. The Role of Emotions in Ethical Life  3. Power in Ethical Life  4. Social and Personal Ethics  5. Conflicts and Universals  Part II: Alternatives  6. Ethics: Religious and Secular  7. Freedom in Liberal Ethics  8. The Place of Reasons and Authority  9. Our Democratic Modernity  10. Social Change and Ethical Transcendence  Part III: Extensions  11. Market Values in Ethical Life  12. Common Goods in Ethical Life  13. Practical Ethics: Public Goods and Cooperation  14. Justice as Balancing  15. Local and Global Ethics

O autorze

Milton Fisk is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Indiana University Bloomington, USA