Normative Ethics

ISBN-13: 9780367317041 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 351 str.

Shelly Kagan

Opis

Providing a thorough introduction to current philosophical views on morality, Normative Ethics examines an act's rightness or wrongness in light of such factors as consequences, harm, and consent. Shelly Kagan offers a division between moral factors and theoretical foundations that reflects the actual working practices of contemporary moral philoso

Spis treści

1 Preliminaries, PART I FACTORS, 2 The Good, 3 Doing Harm, 4 Other Constraints, 5 Further Factors, PART 2 FOUNDATIONS, 6 Teleological Foundations, 7 Deontological Foundations

O autorze

Shelly Kagan is professor of philosophy and Henry R. Luce Professor of Social Thought and Ethics at Yale University. He is the author of The Limits of Morality.