Title: Ethics, a textbook in moral philosophy.
Authors: Bourke, Vernon J. 1907-1998.
Publisher: Macmillan
Year: 1966
Subjects: Ethics.
Contents: Moral Principles : 1. The nature of ethics -- Mans's moral problem -- Actions suited to the achievement of happiness -- Ethics as a practical science -- Ethics and moral theology -- Ethics and metaphysics -- The divisions of ethics -- The degree of accuracy possible in Ethics -- 2. The purpose of human life -- Necessity of a teleological approach in Ethics -- Is there a "natural" ultimate end for Man? -- The attainment of the ultimate end -- Ethics and theology on the end of man -- The end and the specification of moral good and evil -- 3. The moral act -- Analysis of the moral act in the will and intellect -- Voluntariness and the moral act -- Freedom of choice and the moral act -- Passions and the moral act -- Circumstances and the Concrete moral act -- 4. Reason the standard of morality -- The need of a standard of moral judgment -- Right reason and the moral order -- The moral determinants: object, circumstances, end -- The morality of the interior and exterior act --^