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050	0	0	_aBJ1025 _b.G43 1997
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100	1		_aGichure, Christine W. _921150
245	1	0	_aBasic concepts in ethics / _cChristine W. Gichure
260			_aNairobi : _bFocus Publications, _c1997.
300			_avii, 238 p. : _bill. ; _c21 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505			_aI. Human beings quest for happiness Definition of ethics The methods of ethics Division of ethics Relationship between ethics and other areas of study II. THE PERSON AND THE HUMAN ACT What is a person? The necessities of freedom for morality The moral act Some theories regarding the morality of actions III. VOLUNTARIES AND AUTONOMY OF HUMAN ACTS The voluntary act Passions and emotions Happiness and pleasure Kinds of love Altruistic importance of commanded acts IV. GOOD, HAPPINESS AND FINALITY: PRINCIPLES OF THE MORAL ORDER Goodness as the originator of happiness Necessity of teleology in ethics Some conflicting theories regarding the source of morality Happiness: exclusive and inclusive ends V. NATURAL MORAL LAW A. Nature and the natural The notion of the natural law in the history of philosophy Notion of law Natural moral law and freedom B. Right and wrong in society: Notion of moral duty and obligation Moral conscience VI. VIRTUE: ITS PLACE IN ETHICS The notion of virtue in pre-philosophic societies The concept of virtue at the zenith of earlier western philosophical thought Kinds of virtues Necessity of virtue in moral life The practice of virtue and growth in personality VII. ETHICAL PROBLEMS CONCERNING THE PRACTICE OF JUSTICE IN RELATION TO LIFE Right to life Role of philosophy VIII. ETHICAL PROBLEMS CONCERNING WORK AND THE RIGHT OF APPROPRIATION OF GOODS Ownership The right to work Philosophical perspective of human work Perfective dimensions of human work Necessity of human work MAJOR TRENDS IN CONTEMPORARY MORAL PHILOSOPHY IX. METHODS AND MODELS OF MODERN ETHICS Utilitarian models Ethics of logical-positivism and analytical philosophy Ethics based on the metaphysical realism Vitalism and moral nihilism: Nietzsche CONCLUSION Problems of contemporary moral philosophy Linguistic analysis as ethics Moral pluralism Legalism, minimal or obligation ethics Revindication of virtue ethics
650			_aEthics
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942			_2lcc _cBOOK _hBJ 1025 _i.G43 1997
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