Ethics : twelve lectures on the philosophy of morality
by
 
Wiggins, David.

Title
Ethics : twelve lectures on the philosophy of morality

Author
Wiggins, David.

ISBN
9780140252880

Personal Author
Wiggins, David.

Publication Information
London : Penguin, 2006.

Physical Description
x, 393 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents
I. Morality : its motive and content -- 1. Glaucon's and Adeimantus' interrogation of Socrates -- 2. Hume's genealogy of morals -- 3. Hume's theory extended -- 4. From Hume to Kant -- 5. The laws of morality as the laws of freedom and the laws of freedom as the laws of morality -- 6. Classical utilitarianism -- 7. A fresh argument for utilitarianism -- 8. The consequentialist argument -- 9. A first-order ethic of solidarity and reciprocity -- II. Justice -- 10. Neo-Aristotelian reflections on justice -- III. Metaethics -- 11. Objectivity in ethics -- 12. Miscellanea metaethica.

Personal Subject
Aristotle.
 
Hume, David, 1711-1776.
 
Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Subject Term
Ethics.


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