Real Ethics: Reconsidering the Foundations of Morality - Couverture souple

Rist, John M.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521006082 ISBN 13 : 9780521006088

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2012

Synopsis

John Rist surveys the history of ethics from Plato to the present and offers a vigorous defence of an ethical theory based on a revised version of Platonic realism. In a wide-ranging discussion he examines well-known alternatives to Platonism, in particular Epicurus, Hobbes, Hume and Kant as well as contemporary 'practical reasoners', and argues that most post-Enlightenment theories of morality (as well as Nietzschean subversions of such theories) depend on an abandoned Christian metaphysic and are unintelligible without such grounding. He also argues that contemporary choice-based theories, whether they take a strictly ethical or more obviously political form, are ultimately arbitrary in nature. His lively and accessible 2001 study is informed by a powerful sense of philosophical history, and will be of interest to both students and scholars of ethics.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

John Rist is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Classics, University of Toronto. His publications include Augustine: Ancient Thought Baptized (1994) and many journal articles.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521006082
• ISBN 13: 9780521006088
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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