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"This volume presents a series of lectures given by P. F. Strawson to final-year undergraduates at the University of Wales, Bangor, in the autumn term of 1946. The manuscript of these lectures survives and is preserved in the Bodleian Library in Oxford. The lectures contain the germ of Strawson...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Strawson, P. F. (Author)
Other Authors: Dancy, Jonathan (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2024]
Subjects:
Ethics.
Morale.
ethics (philosophy)
PHILOSOPHY.
Mind & Body.
Analytic.
Movements.
Ethics & moral philosophy.
Philosophy.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half-title
  • Lectures on Ethics, 1946
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • LECTURES ON ETHICS
  • Foreword by Jonathan Dancy
  • Elementary Ethics-​Lecture Scheme
  • 1. The Disputes of Moral Philosophers
  • 2. The Good and the Right
  • 3. Action, End, Desire and Choice
  • 4. Duty, Motive and Reason
  • 5. Motive, Belief and Desire
  • 6. The Dualism of Motive in Kant: Obligation
  • 7. The Dualism in Motive: Egoistic Desires and Disinterested Desires
  • 8. Moral Development: Duty, Motive and Instinct
  • 9. The Genesis of Obligation: Duty and Reason
  • 10. Duties and Goods and 'Rightness'
  • 11. The Epistemological Question
  • 12. The Analysis of Moral Judgements
  • 13. The Problem of Freedom
  • Index