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a natural science of morals (virtue ethics according to David Hume)
1 online resource (xiii, 414 pages) : illustrations
Front Matter -- Introduction -- Analysis and Metaphysics₇Semantics, Pragmatics, and Logic. Analysis and Metaphysics₇Semantics, Pragmatics, and Logic -- Virtue and Vice -- Moral Judgments -- Species Bias -- Normative Theories. Normative Theories -- Virtues Agreeable and Useful -- Hume's Theory of Right and Wrong Actions -- An Everywhere Relevant Distinction. An Everywhere Relevant Distinction -- That Species of Utility That Attends Justice -- The Logical Possibility of Justice Utility -- The Real Possibility of Justice Utility: How Systems with it Come to be and are Maintained -- And Now at Last the ₃First₄ Question. And Now at Last the ₃First₄ Question -- Our Interested Obligation to Virtue: Why be Moral? -- References -- Name Index -- Subject Index --.
I. Introduction -- pt. 1. Analysis and metaphysics--semantics, pragmatics, and logic -- II. Virtue and vice -- III. Moral judgments -- IV. Species bias -- pt. 2. Normative theories -- V. Virtues agreeable and useful -- VI. Hume's theory of right and wrong actions -- pt. 3. An everywhere relevant distinction -- VII. That species of utility that attends justice -- VIII. The logical possibility of justice utility -- IX. The real possibility of justice utility : how systems with it come to be and are maintained -- pt. 4. And now at last the "first" question -- X. Our interested obligation to virtue : why be moral?
Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-389) and indexes.
Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2009