Plural and Conflicting Values

Erscheinungsjahr 1992
ISBN: 978-0-19-824055-6
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 217 mm, Gewicht: 449 g

Plural values and conflicting values are often held to be conceptually problematic, threatening the very possibility of ethics, or at least of rational ethics. This book rejects this view.

The author first demonstrates why it is so important to understand the issues raised by plural and conflicting values. This includes a full discussion of Aristotle's treatment of the issues. He then goes on to show that plurality and conflict are commonplace and generally unproblematic features of our everyday choice and action, and that they do allow for a sound and rational ethic.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stocker, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- SECTION I: Plurality and choice

- 1: Monism, pluralism, and conflict

- 2: Conflict

- 3: Maximization

- 4: Ought and can

- 5: Act and agent evaluations

- SECTION II: Akrasia

- 6: The unity of the good, commensurability, and comparability

- 7: Courage, the doctrine of the mean, and the possibility of emotional and evaluative coherence

- 8: Dirty hands and ordinary life

- 9: Dirty hands and conflicts of value and desires in Aristotle's ethics

- 10: Friendship and morality: some difficult relations

- 11: Some problems with counter-examples in ethics