Moral Rightness
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1974, 1974
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1974 |
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- I. Confirming Answers to Moral Questions
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Right and the Good According to Lewis
- 3. Evaluative Sentences Analyzed
- 4. Ambiguities in Moral Questions
- II. Toward an Approach to Ethical Justification
- 5. Lewis’ Approach to Ethical Justification
- 6. Rationality as More Than Consistency
- 7. An Initial Look at Another Approach
- 8. What is Intrinsically Good and Why: The Outline of an Argument
- 9. Justification and Morality Enforcement
- III. The Fundamental Imperative of Rationality
- 10. Absolute, Objective, and Subjective Rationality
- 11. The Ideal Observer Standpoint
- 12. Rationality Where Probabilities Differ
- 13. The Rationale
- 14. Rationality, Prudential Goodness, and an Alleged Paradox
- IV. The Maximum Social Goodness Imperative
- 15. The Golden Rule
- 16. “Social Goodness” Defined
- 17. What Counts as an Act
- 18. The General Use
- 19. The General Use as Morally Fundamental
- V. The Ideal Observer Moral Code
- 20. The Ideal Observer Criterion
- 21. The Need for Simplicity, Ease of Application, and Uniformity
- 22. Exceptions to the Rules
- 23. Borderline Cases
- 24. Conflicting Rules
- 25. A Comparison with Classical Utilitarianism
- 26. A Comparison with the “Ideal Moral Code” Criterion
- VI. The Plausibility of Justification
- 27. A Foreword on Justice
- 28. The Ideal Observer Moral Code vs. a Discriminatory Moral Code
- 29. Final Formulation of the Approach to Justification
- 30. Conclusion
- Works Referred To