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Foundations of ethics : a critical reader in moral and social philosophy / F. Ochieng'-Odhiambo.
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TextPublication details: Nairobi : University of Nairobi Press, 2009.Description: x, 207 p. ; 21 cmISBN: - 996684600X
- Ethics
- Ethical relativism
- Universality and ethics -- Supervenience
- Moral concepts
- Ethical relativism -- Restricted and unrestricted
- Kinds of judgments
- Ethical relativism -- Ethical absolutism
- Ethical terms and criteria -- Types of disagreement -- Hybrid judments
- Theological principle
- Deontological theories of ethics
- Theories of punisment
- Justice
- Results of punisment -- Deontology or retributivism
- Exceptions to moral principles -- Apparent exceptions -- Genuine exceptions
- Generalisation argument -- Deontology -- Supervenience and universality
- Generalisation argument -- Theological principle
- Rule-utilitarianism
- BJ 1025 .O27 2009
Contents:
Part 1. Basic concepts
Part 2. Two theories of ethics
Part 3. Rule-utilitarianism and the generalisation argument
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Includes bibliographical references ([202]-204) and index.
Part 1. Basic concepts
Part 2. Two theories of ethics
Part 3. Rule-utilitarianism and the generalisation argument