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The turn to ethics.
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ISBN: 0415922259 0415922267 Year: 2000 Publisher: New York Routledge


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Rationality, justice and the social contract : themes from Morals by agreement
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ISBN: 074501271X 9780745012711 Year: 1993 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Harvester Wheatsheaf


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Modern moral philosophy
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ISBN: 0333115554 0333115546 9780333115558 Year: 1970 Volume: 3603 Publisher: London Macmillan


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Applications of moral philosophy
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ISBN: 0333114213 Year: 1972 Publisher: London Macmillan

The Blackwell guide to ethical theory
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ISBN: 063120119X 0631201181 9780631201182 9780631201199 Year: 2000 Volume: 2 Publisher: Malden, Mass. Oxford Blackwell Publishers

Ethics
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ISBN: 0192892452 Year: 1994 Volume: *2 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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What is ethics? Where does it come from? Can we really hope to find any rational way of deciding how we ought to live? If we can, what would it be like, and how are we going to know when we have found it? This book is not a conventional reader in moral philosophy. To capture the essentials of what we know about the origins and nature of ethics, Peter Singer has drawn on anthropology, history, observations of non-human animals, the theory of evolution, game theory, and works of fiction, in addition to moral philosophy. By choosing some of the finest pieces of writing, old and new, in and about ethics, he conveys the intellectual excitement of the search for answers to basic questions about how we ought to live.


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Three rival versions of moral enquiry : encyclopaedia, genealogy, and tradition
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ISBN: 0715623370 Year: 1990 Publisher: London Duckworth


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Mao, Marx en Jezus : een vergelijking in citaten.
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ISBN: 9025930360 Year: 1971 Publisher: Baarn Ten Have

Rights in moral lives : a historical-philosophical essay.
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ISBN: 0520062752 Year: 1988 Publisher: Berkeley University of California press


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General ethics
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ISBN: 063115888X Year: 1988 Publisher: Oxford Blackwell

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This is an attempt to present a theory of morals that is broad but specific, non-reductive but coherent. The author's approach is governed by the "good persons exist - how are they possible". It explores what is good, or has been considered to be good within various normative systems of belief. Central to this method is the author's premise that our social world view is constructed around a hierarchy of ethical norms. Ethics are therefore a condition of our world, because our presence in the world is governed by social meanings which are the instruments of social regulation. The author explores the social corollaries of this grounding of ethics in the normative categories of our social "life-world". Analyzing central concepts of ethics (such as voluntary actions, responsibility, consequences, justice, as well as wider notions of moral authority and mental states), she aims to provide a grounding for a general theory of morals.

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