The Scope of Morality - Couverture souple

French, Peter A.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0816609004 ISBN 13 : 9780816609000

Editeur : University of Minnesota Press, 1980

Synopsis

The Scope of Morality was first published in 1980. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

The scope of morality, Peter A. French contends, is much narrower than many traditional and contemporary works in ethical theory suggest. We trivialize morality if we think it has something to say about everything we do; it touches us all, but not at all times.

This essay in philosophical ethics focuses upon the origin, purpose, and function of the various concepts to be found in a more or less mature morality. The author draws a distinction between moral concepts that arise from an individual's wish to live a worthwhile life and those directed towards the development of virtue in the moral community. Moral concepts, in his view, are subjective creations of human beings rather than laws with an objective basis in nature. The ethics of sociobiology, of the lifeboat and spaceship models, and of game theory all come under his critical eye in this useful and progressive work. The Scope of Morality, says Hector-Neri Castaneda, "represents a serious effort at discussing the nature of morality, taking into account the most important contributions of recent writers."

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Peter A. French is Director of the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics at Arizona State University. He is coeditor of Midwest Studies in Philosophy.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Minnesota Press
• Date d'édition: 1980
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0816609004
• ISBN 13: 9780816609000
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
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• Personne responsable: non disponible