Rightness and Goodness: A Study in Contemporary Ethical Theory

ISBN-13: 9789401523707 / Angielski / Miękka / 1969 / 163 str.

O.A. Johnson

Opis

In its persistent attempt to do justice to the facts, even if this means abandoning the major tradition in the history of Western ethics, lies the main strength of the deontologists' position.

Spis treści

I. The Ethics of Deontology.- II. The Critique of Axiological Ethics.- 1. Utility as a Sufficient Condition for Rightness.- 2. Utility as a Necessary Condition for Rightness.- 3. Moral Goodness as a Sufficient Condition for Rightness.- III. Deontological Rightness.- IV. Putative and Moral Rightness.- 1. The Theory of Putative Rightness.- 2. The Theory of Moral Rightness.- V. Motives and Duty.- 1. The Ought-Can Argument.- 2. The Infinite Regress Argument.- VI. Rightness and Goodness: A Theory.