Moral thinking : its levels, method, and point /
By distinguishing between 2 different levels of moral thinking, we see how utilitarian reasoning at the critical level - enlisting impartial sympathy for others' predicaments, which we must have if we fully understand them and universalize our preferences as morality requires - generates moral...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Oxford : New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
1981.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | By distinguishing between 2 different levels of moral thinking, we see how utilitarian reasoning at the critical level - enlisting impartial sympathy for others' predicaments, which we must have if we fully understand them and universalize our preferences as morality requires - generates moral principles for use at the intuitive level. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 242 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-236) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0198246595 9780198246596 0198246609 9780198246602 9780191519871 0191519871 9780191597596 0191597597 9786612006876 6612006870 1282006878 9781282006874 |