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Western ethics : an historical introduction
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ISBN: 0631194169 Year: 1998 Publisher: Oxford Blackwell

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Ethics since 1900
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ISBN: 0198880014 9780198880011 Year: 1976 Publisher: London Oxford University Press

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Modern theories
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ISBN: 0333173554 0333173562 9780333173558 9780333173565 Year: 1974 Volume: 2 Publisher: London Macmillan

God and morality : a philosophical history.
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ISBN: 9780631236078 0631236074 Year: 2006 Publisher: Malden Blackwell

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Evolutionary origins of morality : cross-disciplinary perspectives.
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ISBN: 090784507X Year: 2002 Publisher: Exeter Imprint academic

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Four principal papers and a total of 43 peer commentaries on the evolutionary origins of morality. To what extent is human morality the outcome of a continuous development from motives, emotions and social behaviour found in nonhuman animals? Jerome Kagan, Hans Kummer, Peter Railton and others discuss the first principal paper by primatologists Jessica Flack and Frans de Waal. The second paper, by cultural anthropologist Christopher Boehm, synthesizes social science and biological evidence to support his theory of how our hominid ancestors became moral. In the third paper philosopher Elliott Sober and evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson argue that an evolutionary understanding of human nature allows sacrifice for others and ultimate desires for another's good. Finally Brian Skyrms argues that game theory based on adaptive dynamics must join the social scientist's use of rational choice and classical game theory to explain cooperation.

De mens is een angstig dier : Adam Smith' theorie van de morele gevoelens
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ISBN: 9060092716 9789060092712 Year: 1992 Publisher: Meppel Boom

Conscience and casuistry in early modern Europe
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ISBN: 0521301130 0521520207 051152143X 0511869827 9780521301138 2735101851 9780511521430 9780521520201 Year: 1988 Volume: 9 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This examination of a fundamental but often neglected aspect of the intellectual history of early modern Europe brings together philosophers, historians and political theorists from Great Britain, Canada, the United States, Australia, France and Germany. Despite the diversity of disciplines and national traditions represented, the individual contributions show a remarkable convergence around three themes: changes in the modes of moral education in early modern Europe, the emergence of new relations between conscience and law (particularly the law of the state), and the shared continuities and discontinuities of both Roman Catholic and Protestant moral culture in relation to their medieval past.

The British moralists and the internal "ought" : 1640-1740
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ISBN: 0521451671 0521457823 0511608950 Year: 2003 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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This book is a major work in the history of ethics, and provides the first study of early modern British philosophy in several decades. Professor Darwall discerns two distinct traditions feeding into the moral philosophy of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. On the one hand, there is the empirical, naturalist tradition, comprising Hobbes, Locke, Cumberland, Hutcheson, and Hume, which argues that obligation is the practical force that empirical discoveries acquire in the process of deliberation. On the other hand, there is a group including Cudworth, Shaftesbury, Butler, and in some moments Locke, which views obligation as inconceivable without autonomy and which seeks to develop a theory of the will as self-determining.

The fragility of goodness : luck and ethics in Greek tragedy and philosophy
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ISBN: 052179126X 0521794722 110738558X 0511817916 9780521791267 9780521794725 Year: 2001 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This book is a study of ancient views about 'moral luck'. It examines the fundamental ethical problem that many of the valued constituents of a well-lived life are vulnerable to factors outside a person's control, and asks how this affects our appraisal of persons and their lives. The Greeks made a profound contribution to these questions, yet neither the problems nor the Greek views of them have received the attention they deserve. This book thus recovers a central dimension of Greek thought and addresses major issues in contemporary ethical theory. One of its most original aspects is its interrelated treatment of both literary and philosophical texts. The Fragility of Goodness has proven to be important reading for philosophers and classicists, and its non-technical style makes it accessible to any educated person interested in the difficult problems it tackles. This edition, first published in 2001, features a preface by Martha Nussbaum.

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