Value Judgement Improving Our Ethical Beliefs
| Author/creator | Griffin, James Thomas Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | Reprint |
| Publication Info | New York : Oxford University Press, Incorporated |
| Description | 192 p. ill 05.400 x 08.300 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
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| Summary | Annotation James Griffin asks how, and how much, we can improve our ethical standards not lift our behaviour closer to our standards but refine the standards themselves. To give an answer to this question it is necessary to answer most of the questions of ethics. So Value Judgement includes discussionof what a good life is like, where the boundaries of the `natural world' come, how values relate to that world, how great human capacitiesthe ones important to ethicsare, and where moral norms come from. Throughout the book the question of what philosophy can contribute to ethics repeatedly arises. Philosophical traditions, such as most forms of utilitarianism and deontology and virtue ethics, are, Griffin contends, too ambitious. Ethics cannot be what philosophers in those traditions expect itto be because agents cannot be what their philosophies need them to be. This clear, compelling, and original account of ethics will be of interest to anyone concerned with thinking about values: not only philosophers but legal, political, and economic theorists as well. L |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9780198752318 |
| ISBN | 0198752318 (UK-Trade Paper) On Demand |
| Standard identifier# | 9780198752318 |
| Stock number | 00020142 |
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