Walls and vaults
Subtitle: a natural science of morals (virtue ethics according to David Hume)
By: Jordan Howard Sobel
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Hoboken, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9780470127612
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-389) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: I. Introduction; title: Pt. 1. Analysis and metaphysics; title: semantics, pragmatics, and logic; title: II. Virtue and vice; title: III. Moral judgments; title: IV. Species bias; title: Pt. 2. Normative theories; title: V. Virtues agreeable and useful; title: VI. Hume's theory of right and wrong actions; title: Pt. 3. An everywhere relevant distinction; title: VII. That species of utility that attends justice; title: VIII. The logical possibility of justice utility; title: IX. The real possibility of justice utility : how systems with it come to be and are maintained; title: Pt. 4. And now at last the "first" question; title: X. Our interested obligation to virtue : why be moral?