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Actual Ethics

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ISBN-10: 0521681251

ISBN-13: 9780521681254

Edition: 2006

Authors: James R. Otteson

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Actual Ethics offers a moral defense of the 'classical liberal' political tradition and applies it to several of today's vexing moral and political issues. James Otteson argues that a Kantian conception of personhood and an Aristotelian conception of judgment are compatible and even complementary. He shows why they are morally attractive, and perhaps most controversially, when combined, they imply a limited, classical liberal political state. Otteson then addresses several contemporary problems - wealth and poverty, public education, animal welfare, and affirmative action - and shows how each can be plausibly addressed within the Kantian, Aristotelian and classical liberal framework.…    
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Book details

List price: $41.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 6/19/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 6.38" wide x 9.02" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.078

James R. Otteson specializes in political philosophy, the history of economic thought, and political economy. He is the author of Adam Smith's Marketplace of Life (Cambridge University Press, 2002) and Actual Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2006), the latter of which won the 2007 Templeton Enterprise Award. He is also the editor of The Levellers: Overton, Walwyn, and Lilburne, five volumes (2003). His most recent book is Adam Smith (2013). Otteson is Executive Director and Teaching Professor in the School of Business at Wake Forest University, Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy and in the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom at the University of Arizona, and Senior…    

Working out the position
Personhood and judgment
A matter of principle
The betrayal of personhood
A matter of principle
Personhood writ large
The demands of poverty
The wealth of nations: applying the principles
Schooling, religion, and other things you should be in charge of
Moral hobgoblins: inclusion and exclusion
More moral hobgoblins: extending rights; The end
What is good for the goose