Moeller The Moral Fool

A Case for Amorality
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-231-51924-3
Verlag: Columbia University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 203 mm

Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2010

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moeller, Hans-Georg

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Indische & Asiatische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Is It Good to Be Good?
Part 1. On Amorality
1. The Moral Fool
2. Negative Ethics
Part 2. A Pathology of Ethics
3. The Redundancy of Ethics
4. The "Morality of Anger"
5. Ethics and Aesthetics
6. The Presumptions of Philosophical Ethics
7. The Myth of Moral Progress
Part 3. Ethics in Contemporary Society
8. For the Separation of Morality and Law
9. Morality and Civil Rights
10. How to Get a Death Verdict
11. Masters of War
12. Ethics and the Mass Media
Conclusion: Applied Amorality
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Hans-Georg Moeller is senior lecturer in the Philosophy Department at University College Cork, Ireland. His publications on Daoism and social systems theory include Choice Outstanding Academic Title The Philosophy of the Daodejing as well as a translation of the Daodejing, Daoism Explained: From the Dream of the Butterfly to the Fishnet Allegory, and Luhmann Explained: From Souls to Systems.