Right actions and good persons : controversies between eudaimonistic and deontic moral theories / Marjaana Kopperi.
First published in 1999, this work tests the ancient against the modern in discussing whether modern approaches to ethics remain sufficiently able to provide a serious and justifiable account of morality. Marjaana Kopperi explores ancient, medieval and enlightenment philosophy to compare their notio...
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2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Notes; 2 Morality in Ancient and Modern Theories; The good and the moral good; Morality and happiness in modern ethics; Prudence and morality in ancient ethics; The good of others in ancient ethics; The notion of respect; The teleological view of human nature; Human nature as a basis of modern moral theory; Notes; 3 Ethics and the Good Life; The cultivation of character as a prerequisite for morality; The necessary conditions of the good life; Basic goods and the good life; Charles Taylor and the ethics of inarticulacy.
- The ethics of authenticityMorality and substantive conceptions of the good; Notes; 4 Contextual Justification of Morality; John Rawls's political liberalism; The scope and justification of liberal doctrine; From metaphysics to rhetoric: a rhetorical turn; Comprehensive and partial forms of liberal doctrine; From principles of right to the conception of the good: a teleological turn; Rawls as a modus vivendi liberal?; Ethics without metaphysics; Rhetoric, metaphysics and modus vivendi-liberalism; Notes; 5 Moral Obligation and the Meaningful Life.
- Why distinguish between basic goods and the conceptions of the good life?My life and the good of others; Acts and agents; Notes; Bibliography; Index of Names.