A Coherence Theory in EthicsRodopi, 1994 - 270 من الصفحات This book offers a comprehensive approach to moral experience. It respects the many dimensions of our moral life which elude the traditional philosophical theories that deal exclusively with principles, consequences, virtues, or some other single dimension. Working from a critique of such traditions, the book shows how to integrate their values in a dynamic coherence. Thus, it is not just another ethical theory, but a new level of philosophizing in ethics which rewards the reader with an enlarged and enriched vision of our complexity as moral beings. |
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FOUR Ethical Particularism | 51 |
FIVE Rules and Principles | 71 |
Principles Rules | 95 |
SEVEN NonHarm and Welfare | 117 |
EIGHT Freedom | 143 |
NINE Justice and Equality | 169 |
TEN Rules Norms and Practices | 197 |
ELEVEN Individual Judgments | 227 |
Notes | 243 |
Bibliography | 259 |
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abstract acceptable adequate appeal applied ethics aspects of moral assign autonomous avoid harm avoidance of harm behavior Bernard Gert burden of proof Casuistry circumstances claim coercion conception conflict critique decision defined deontological depends determine domain dual principles Dworkin dynamic coherence equality ideal established evaluation example facie Feinberg freedom principle full dual Gert Gert's harm avoidance harm principle Hayek Ibid income inequality institutions involves John Rawls Larmore Larmore's less liberty minimal moral experience moral inquiry moral judgments moral obligations moral principles moral responsibilities moral rules moral standing moral theory morally required mutuality principle negative negative freedom non-harm principle norms notion paradigmatic particular judgments person philosophers positive preferences primary justice principle primary principles problem promote proper rationality Rawls Rawls's reform rejects responsibilities significant social equality social practices society specific Theory of Justice University Press values violation virtue ethics W.E.B. DuBois welfare
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الصفحة 164 - Social and economic inequalities are to be arranged so that they are both: (a) to the greatest benefit of the least advantaged . . . and (b) attached to offices and positions open to all under conditions of fair equality of opportunity.
الصفحة 156 - It is that the case for individual freedom rests chiefly on the recognition of the inevitable ignorance of all of us concerning a great many of the factors on which the achievement of our ends and welfare depends.
الصفحة 159 - ... taxation and the various compulsory services, especially in the armed forces. Though these are not supposed to be avoidable, they are at least predictable and are enforced irrespective of how the individual would otherwise employ his energies; this deprives them largely of the evil nature of coercion. If the known necessity of paying a certain amount in taxes becomes the basis of all my plans, if a period of military service is a foreseeable part of my career, then I can follow a general plan...
الصفحة 144 - with that condition of men in which coercion of some by others is reduced as much as possible in...
الصفحة 56 - We may now define virtue as a disposition of the soul in which, when it has to choose among actions and feelings, it observes the mean relative to us, this being determined by such a rule or principle as would take shape in the mind of a man of sense or practical wisdom. We call it a mean condition as lying between two forms of badness...
الصفحة 114 - One writer suggests the following list of important duties: "1. Don't kill. 2. Don't cause pain. 3. Don't disable. 4. Don't deprive of freedom.