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Natural Goodness

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ISBN-10: 019926547X

ISBN-13: 9780199265473

Edition: 2003

Authors: Philippa Foot

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Philippa Foot has for many years been one of the most distinctive and influential thinkers in moral philosophy. Long dissatisfied with the moral theories of her contemporaries, she has gradually evolved a theory of her own that is radically opposed not only to emotivism and prescriptivism but also to the whole subjectivist, anti-naturalist movement deriving from David Hume. Dissatisfied also with both Kantian and utilitarian ethics, she claims to have isolated a special form of evaluation that predicates goodness and defect only to living things considered as such: she finds this form of evaluation in moral judgements. Her vivid discussion ranges over topics such as practical rationality,…    
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Book details

List price: $58.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/4/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 128
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.42" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

natural Goodness
Natural Goodness
Preface
Introduction
A Fresh Start?
Natural Norms
Transition to Human Beings
Practical Rationality
Human Goodness
Happiness and Human Good
Immoralism
Bibliography
Index