Ethics : an introduction to moral philosophy / William Augustus Banner.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Scribner, [1968]Description: 175 p. ; 24 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 170
LOC classification:
  • BJ71 .B18
Contents:
1. Introduction: the realm of morals: Reflection and choice; The dimensions of virtue; Social existence and interdependence; Responsibility; Social criticism -- 2. The science of morals: The nature of moral science; Reason and the freedom of will ; Motives: desire and the good ; Motives: feeling (sentiment) and the good; Summary: morality, criteria, and truth -- 3. The ethics of Greece: The foundations; Socrates: no man does evil voluntarily; Plato; Aristotle -- 4. Christian ethics: scholasticism and after: The foundations; St Augustine; St Thomas Aquinas; Modern Christian ethics: Reinhold Niebuhr -- 5. The ethics of Kant: Background; The good will; The rational public order -- 6. Utilitarianism: Jenny Bentham; John Stuart Mill -- 7. The ethics of existentialism: Background; Soren Kierkegaard; Jean-Paul Sartre; Albert Camus -- 8. Epilog: the person and the community: The good; The rights of persons; Order, function, equality.
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1. Introduction: the realm of morals: Reflection and choice; The dimensions of virtue; Social existence and interdependence; Responsibility; Social criticism --
2. The science of morals: The nature of moral science; Reason and the freedom of will ; Motives: desire and the good ; Motives: feeling (sentiment) and the good; Summary: morality, criteria, and truth --
3. The ethics of Greece: The foundations; Socrates: no man does evil voluntarily; Plato; Aristotle --
4. Christian ethics: scholasticism and after: The foundations; St Augustine; St Thomas Aquinas; Modern Christian ethics: Reinhold Niebuhr --
5. The ethics of Kant: Background; The good will; The rational public order --
6. Utilitarianism: Jenny Bentham; John Stuart Mill --
7. The ethics of existentialism: Background; Soren Kierkegaard; Jean-Paul Sartre; Albert Camus --
8. Epilog: the person and the community: The good; The rights of persons; Order, function, equality.

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