Real Ethics
Rethinking the Foundations of Morality
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Word Count
76,000 words, Guess
Page Count
304 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Internet Archiverealethicsrecons00rist
- Internet Archiverealethicsrecons00rist_573
- ISBN-100521006082
- ISBN-139780521006088
- Goodreads1151903
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- LibraryThing3362860
- Library of Congress Control Number2001035254
- OCLC Control Number46810870
- Better World Books9780521006088
- Open LibraryOL7712814M
Classifications
- LCCBJ1012 .R53 2002
Description
John Rist surveys the history of ethics from Plato to the present and offers a vigorous defence of an ethical theory based on a revised version of Platonic realism. In a wide-ranging discussion he examines well-known alternatives to Platonism, in particular--Epicurus, Hobbes, Hume and Kant, as well as contemporary "practical reasoners". His accessible study is enhanced by a strong sense of philosophical history, and will be of interest to students and scholars of ethics.
First Sentence
The raw material of ethical reflection is provided by human behaviour as we experience and observe it and as it is recorded directly by historians, journalists, TV cameramen and film-makers, writers and, less directly, by other sorts of 'creative' artists.
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