Moral Measures : An Introduction to Ethics West and East

ISBN-13: 9780415224963 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 352 str.

J. E. Tiles

Opis

This text is an accessible introduction to ethics which carefully illuminates the difficult issues surrounding cross-cultural ethics and moral thought.

Spis treści

1 The field of ethics—a preliminary Survey 2 Concrete moralities 3 Sources of validity 4 Conflict and the search for standards 5 Man as the measure 6 Law as measure 7 The measure of law 8 The qualities of exemplary persons 9 The end as a standard 10 Pleasure as the measure 11 The self as a problem 12 Conclusion: Measures that fall short?

O autorze

Jim Tiles is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawai‘i at M noa. He is the author of Dewey (1988), also published by Routledge and the co-author of An Introduction to Historical Epistemology (1992).