Sher, George. creator text xxu U.S.A Harkett Publishing Company 1987 monographic eng

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vii, 712p.: 24cm. Contents -- Moral psychology and moral education: Psychological egoism -- Persons, character, and morality-- Moral saints -- The Alleged moral repugnance of acting from duty -- The Nature of moral virtue -- Indoctrination versus relativity in value education -- Moral education and indoctrination -- Skepticism about weakness of will -- Moral epistemology: Goodness as simple and indefinable -- Our intuitive knowledge of rights and wrong -- Ethical relativism -- The Emotive theory of ethics -- Ethics and observation -- The Subjectivity of values -- Moral explanations -- Outline of a decision procedure for ethics -- The Justification for being moral:The ring of Gyges -- Morality and self - interest -- Why act morally? -- Morality as a system of hypothetical imperatives -- Freedom and reason -- The Moral point of view -- normative ethics: Euthyphro -- Utilitarianism -- Toward a credible form of utilitarianism -- Classical utilitarianism -- Classical utilitarianism -- Morality and rationality -- Moral luck -- What makes right acts right? -- A theory of justice -- Existentialism is a Humanism -- Value and values: Pleasure as a the good -- The Experience machine -- The Good life -- What things are good? -- Beyond morality -- Rational life plans -- Desire, choice, and the good-- The Virtues, the unity of a human life and the concept of a tradition -- Application: Famine, affluence, and morality -- Lifeboat earth -- Intention, harm and personal discretion -- Political action: The Problem of dirty and -- Imposing risks upon others. George Sher. Philosophy BJ 1012.M6352 015564070 140602