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Reading Ethics Paperback - 2008 - 1st Edition
by Miranda Fricker (Editor); Samuel Guttenplan (Editor)
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- Title Reading Ethics
- Author Miranda Fricker (Editor); Samuel Guttenplan (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition Used - Very good
- Pages 344
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, USA
- Publication date 2008
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 21393067-20
- ISBN 9781405124744 / 1405124741
- Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
- Dimensions 9.6 x 6.6 x 0.8 in (24.38 x 16.76 x 2.03 cm)
- Category Philosophy
- Library of Congress subjects Ethics
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2008020126
- Dewey Decimal Code 170
- Quantity available 1
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This introductory text encourages students to engage with key problems and arguments in ethics through a series of classic and contemporary readings. It will inspire students to think about the distinctive nature of moral philosophy, and to draw comparisons between different traditions of thought, between ancient and modern philosophies, and between theoretical and literary writing about the place of value in human life.
Each of the book's six chapters focuses on a particular theme: the nature of goodness, subjectivity and objectivity in ethical thinking, justice and virtue, moral motivation, the place of moral obligation, and the idea that literature can be a form of moral philosophy. The historical readings come from Plato, Aristotle, Hume, Kant and Mill; and the contemporary readings from Foot, Rawls, McDowell, Mackie, Nagel, Williams, Nussbaum and Gaita.
The editors' introductions to the themes, and the interactive commentaries they provide for each reading, are intended to make Reading Ethics come as close as possible to a seminar in philosophy.
