The Methods of Ethics - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1230217177 ISBN 13 : 9781230217178

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In offering to the public a new book upon a subject so trite as Ethics, it seems desirable to indicate clearly at the outset its plan and purpose. I ts distinctive characteristics may be first given negatively. It is not, in the main, metaphysical or psychological: at the same time it is not dogmatic or directly practical: it does not deal, except by way of illustration, with the history of ethical thoughL in a sense it might be said to be not even critical, since it is only quite incidentally that it offers any criticism of the systems of individual moralists. It claims to be an examination, at once expository and critical, of the different methods of obtaining reasoned convictions as to what ought to be done which are to be found either explicit or implicit in the moral consciousness of mankind generally: and which, from time to time, have been developed, either singly or in combination, by individual thinkers, and worked up into the systems now historical I have avoided the inquiry into theO rigin of theM oral Faculty which has perhaps occupied a disproportionate amount of the attention of modem moralists by the simple assumption (which seems to be made implicitly in all ethical reasoning) that there is something under any given circumstances which it is right or reasonable to do, and that this may be known. If it be admitted that we now have the faculty of knowing this, it appears to me that the investigation of the historical antecedents of this cognition, and of its relation to other I did not mean to exclude the supposition that two or more alternatives might under certain oiroumstanoes be equally right (1884).
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Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1884 edition by Macmillan and Co., London.

À propos de cette édition

• ISBN 10: 1230217177
• ISBN 13: 9781230217178
• Reliure: Broché