Writers on ethics : classicals and contemporary classicals and contemporary /

Publication details: London : 1962 D Van NostrandDescription: ix, 673 pages ; 23 cmSubject(s):

Ethics

DDC classification:

170 WRI

Contents:

Part I: Differing conceptions of the good • Peace of mind • Salvation • Duty • Pleasure • Realization of human potentiality • Creativity Part II: Determinism and responsibility • Paul Edwards, Hard and soft determinism • John Hospers, what means this freedom • C. Arthur Campbell, In Defence of free will • H.L.A. Hart, Legal responsibility and excuses Part III: Political and social dimensions of ethics • Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan • John Stuart Mill, On liberty • Francis H. Bradley, My station and its duties • Franz Neumann, The concept of political freedom • Robert K. Merton, Social structure and Anomie • Erich Fromm, Selfishness and self love Part IV: Moral judgement: principles and methods • Philosophical questioning of uncritical assumptions • Divine authority • Self evidence • The indefinability of God • From emotivism to good reasons • Value and interest • Scientific method • Normative conceptions in psychology • Motivation and value • existentialism

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Part I: Differing conceptions of the good
• Peace of mind
• Salvation
• Duty
• Pleasure
• Realization of human potentiality
• Creativity
Part II: Determinism and responsibility
• Paul Edwards, Hard and soft determinism
• John Hospers, what means this freedom
• C. Arthur Campbell, In Defence of free will
• H.L.A. Hart, Legal responsibility and excuses
Part III: Political and social dimensions of ethics
• Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
• John Stuart Mill, On liberty
• Francis H. Bradley, My station and its duties
• Franz Neumann, The concept of political freedom
• Robert K. Merton, Social structure and Anomie
• Erich Fromm, Selfishness and self love
Part IV: Moral judgement: principles and methods
• Philosophical questioning of uncritical assumptions
• Divine authority
• Self evidence
• The indefinability of God
• From emotivism to good reasons
• Value and interest
• Scientific method
• Normative conceptions in psychology
• Motivation and value
• existentialism

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