Moral reasoning
Subtitle: rediscovering the ethical tradition
By: Louis Groarke
Publisher: Oxford University Press Canada
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Don Mills, Ont; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 466
ISBN-13: 9780195425611
Subjects: Philosophers; Textbooks; Histoire; Philosophes; Morale; Ethics; Manuels d'enseignement supérieur; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [435]-448) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Moral epistemology : we can reason about morality; title: The early tradition : from Confucius to Jesus and beyond; title: Socrates and Plato; title: Understanding moral theory : Aristotle; title: Understanding moral theory : Thomas Aquinas; title: The contractarians : Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Hean-Jacques Rousseau, and Karl Marx; title: Kant : duty and moral law; title: Utilitarianism and liberalism : Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill; title: Contemporary moral theory.