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050 00 $aBJ 1012$bT37 2000
100 1 $aTaylor, Richard,$d1919-2003
245 10 $aGood and evil /$cRichard Taylor.
250 $aRev. ed.
260 $aAmherst, N.Y. :$bPrometheus Books,$c2000.
300 $a336 p. :$bill. ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aThe Background: Reason and Will -- Ethics and Human Nature -- The Importance of Our Question -- Three Traditional Answers -- The Greeks and the Idea of What Is Good -- Human Goodness and Reason -- Rationalism vs. Voluntarism -- Moral Rationalism -- Moral Voluntarism -- Nature vs. Convention -- True Morality -- What Is and What Ought to Be -- The Emergence of Ethics in Greek Philosophy -- Nature vs. Convention -- The Problem of Morality in Sophistic Philosophy -- Thrasymachus and the Will of the Strong -- Glaucon and Adiemantus -- Polus and the Rewards of Injustice -- The Issue Joined: True vs. Pragmatic Morality -- The True Morality According to Callicles -- Protagoras and the Doctrine of Pragmatis -- Protagorean Ethics -- The Socratic Questions -- The Significance of Protagoras -- Socratic Ethics -- The Character of Socrates' Thought -- Some Socratic Questions -- Vulgar vs. Philosophical Virtue -- The Involuntary Character of Wickedness -- Virtue as Knowledge -- What Power Is -- Virtue and Happiness -- Justice as a State of the Soul -- Is Justice Good for Its Own Sake? -- The Test -- Is There a True or Natural Justice? -- Hedonism, the Doctrine of Pleasure -- Moral Empiricism -- Empiricism and the Doctrine of Pleasure -- Epicurean Empiricism -- Pleasure as the Natural Good -- The Problem of Ethics -- The Cyrenaic Philosophy -- The Epicurean Modifications -- The Moderation of Desires -- The Sources of Goodness -- Justice and Duty -- The Significance of Epicurus -- A Modern Version of Hedonism -- J. S. Mill's Hedonism -- The Greatest Happiness Principle -- Duty and Motive -- The Quality of Pleasure -- The Presuppositions of Hedonism -- The Double Meanings of Pleasure and Pain -- Pleasure and Happiness -- Kantian Morality -- The Background of Kantian Morality -- The Basic Ideas of Conventional Morality -- Laws -- Justice -- Kantian Morality -- Duty and Law -- The Good Will -- The Categorical Imperative -- Rational Nature as an End -- The Significance of Kant -- Good and Evil -- Good and Evil -- Conative Beings -- Conation as the Precondition of Good and Evil -- The Emergence of Good and Evil -- The Emergence of Right and Wrong -- Right and Wrong as Relative to Rules -- The World as It Is -- The Common Good -- Conflicts of Aims -- The Nature of the Common Good -- The Moral Evaluation of Institutions -- Some Fundamental Questions Revisited -- Nature vs. Convention -- Justice -- Can Virtue Be Taught? -- Two Shortcomings -- Human Goodness -- Casuistry -- The Futility of Justifying Conduct -- Samples of Casuistry -- The Significance of These Examples -- The Function of Principles -- Judicial Casuistry -- Moralists as Lawmakers -- Judicial Decision by Persuasive Definition -- Moral and Judicial Casuistry Compared -- The Incentives of Action -- The Incentive to Justice -- The Incentive of Compassion -- The Incentive of Malice -- Egoism -- The Moral Neutrality of Egoism -- The Ugliness of Egoism -- Four Possible Incentives -- Self-Hatred as an Incentive -- The Virtue of Compassion -- Malice: The First Class of Actions -- Compassion: The Second Class of Actions -- The Significance of These Stories -- The Scope of Compassion -- Incentives and Consequences -- Compassion and Justice -- Love and Friendship -- Varieties of Love and Friendship -- Philia, or Friendship -- Friendship in Aristotelian Ethics -- Eros, or the Love of the Sexes -- Absolute Love -- Love and Aspiration -- Possessive Love -- Love as a Duty -- Love as a Blessing -- Moral Rules and Aspirations -- Love as Aspiration -- The Meaning of Life -- Meaningless Existence -- The Meaninglessness of Life -- The Meaning of Life.
650 0 $aEthics.
650 0 $aGood and evil.
948 $a10/27/2000$b11/28/2000
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