MORAL STRATEGY by James Kern Feibleman ( 9789401185592 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

MORAL STRATEGY
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ETHICS OF CONFRONTATION

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Format:

Paperback

List price:	£69.99
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ISBN 10:

940118559X

ISBN 13:

9789401185592

Publisher:

SPRINGER

Pub. date:

1 January, 1967

Edition:

Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1967

Pages:

325

Synopsis:

No statement, except one, can be made with which all philosophers would agree. The exception is this statement itself. The disagreement has the advantage that it gets all the proposals out into the open where they can be examined, but it has the dis advantage that the cogency of any one philosophy must rely entirely upon that wide public which is unprepared to deal with it. Fortunately, ethics has a more immediate appeal than some other branches of philosophy; yet the history of the topic gives no indication that this circumstance has had the happy results we might have expected. One peculiarity of ethics is that its problems are rarely settled on its own grounds. Ethical problems are for the most part referred to socially established moralities, and moralities are socially established not on the basis of philosophy but rather by some sponsoring insti- or politics. Such establishments, however, tution, usually religion depend on the prior preparation of ethical proposals by philosophers. For it stands to reason that an ethics cannot be socially established if there is no ethics to establish.Thus philosophers provide the justifi- cation for socially-established moralities while seeming not to do so.

Illustrations:

1 black & white illustrations, biography

Publication:

Netherlands

Imprint:

Springer

Returns:

Returnable

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