Plural and conflicting values
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Plural and conflicting values
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1990
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Bibliography: p. [343]-350
Includes index
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: [pbk] ISBN 9780198240556
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- SECTION I: PLURALITY AND CHOICE
- SECTION II: AKRASIA
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ISBN 9780198244479
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- SECTION I: Plurality and choice
- Monism, pluralism, and conflict
- Conflict
- Maximization
- Ought and can
- Act and agent evaluations
- SECTION II: Akrasia: The unity of the good, commensurability, and comparability
- Courage, the doctrine of the mean, and the possibility of emotional and evaluative coherence
- Dirty hands and ordinary life
- Dirty hands and conflicts of value and desires in Aristotle's ethics
- Friendship and morality: some difficult relations
- Some problems with counter-examples in ethics
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