Right actions and good persons : controversies between eudaimonistic and deontic moral theories /: controversies between eudaimonistic and deontic moral theories. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Marjaana Kopperi.
• Other Names: Kopperi, Marjaana
• Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Notes; 2 Morality in Ancient and Modern Theories; The good and the moral good; Morality and happiness in modern ethics; Prudence and morality in ancient ethics; The good of others in ancient ethics; The notion of respect; The teleological view of human nature; Human nature as a basis of modern moral theory; Notes; 3 Ethics and the Good Life; The cultivation of character as a prerequisite for morality; The necessary conditions of the good life; Basic goods and the good life; Charles Taylor and the ethics of inarticulacy The ethics of authenticityMorality and substantive conceptions of the good; Notes; 4 Contextual Justification of Morality; John Rawls's political liberalism; The scope and justification of liberal doctrine; From metaphysics to rhetoric: a rhetorical turn; Comprehensive and partial forms of liberal doctrine; From principles of right to the conception of the good: a teleological turn; Rawls as a modus vivendi liberal?; Ethics without metaphysics; Rhetoric, metaphysics and modus vivendi-liberalism; Notes; 5 Moral Obligation and the Meaningful Life Why distinguish between basic goods and the conceptions of the good life?My life and the good of others; Acts and agents; Notes; Bibliography; Index of Names
• Publisher Details: Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (1 volume.)
• Subjects: 171; Ethics; Conduct of life; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General; Conduct of life; Ethics; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429451058; 0429451059; 9780429835551; 0429835558; 9780429835537; 0429835531; 9780429835544
• Related ISBNs: 042983554X; 1138323845; 9781138323841
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.