Well-Being and Morality Essays in Honour of James Griffin

Name: Well-Being and Morality Essays in Honour of James Griffin
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ISBN: 9780198235842

ISBN-10: 0198235844

ISBN-13: 9780198235842

Edition: 2000

Authors: James Thomas Griffin, Roger Crisp, Brad Hooker

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Does human well-being consist in pleasure, the satisfaction of desires, or some set of goods such as knowledge, friendship, and accomplishment? Does being moral contribute to well-being, and is there a conflict between people's self-interest and the moral demands on them? Are the values of well-being and of morality measurable? Are such values objective? What is the relation between such values and the natural world? And how much can philosophical theory help us in our answers to these and similar questions? Issues such as these provide the focus for much of the work of James Griffin, White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford, in whose honour Well-Being and Morality has been prepared.…

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List price: $150.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/11/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 328
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Notes on Contributors


Abbreviations



Something in Between




Incommensurable Values




Recognition and Reaction




Taste and Value




Objective Human Goods




Does the Evaluative Supervene on the Natural?




Griffin's Pessimism




Impartiality, Predictability, and Indirect Consequentialism




The Improvisatory Drama of Decision-Making




Anna Karenina and Moral Philosophy




Cognitivism in Political Philosophy




The Central Conflict: Morality and Self-Interest




Quality of Well-Being: Quality of Being




An Abortion Argument and the Threat of Intransitivity



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