Moral Strategy An Introduction to the Ethics of Confrontation

No statement, except one, can be made with which all philosophers would agree. The exception is this statement itself. The disagreement has the advantage that it gets all the proposals out into the open where they can be examined, but it has the dis advantage that the cogency of any one philosophy m...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Feibleman, James K.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1967, 1967
Edition:1st ed. 1967
Subjects:
Online Access:
Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Book One — Introduction
  • I — The Approach to Ethics and Morality
  • 1. Methodological Considerations
  • 2. Moral Integrative Levels
  • 3. A Summary Perspective
  • Book Two — The Ethical Integrative Series
  • II — The Ethics of the Individual
  • 1. The Individual Good
  • 2. Approaches to the Good
  • 3. The Pursuit of the Good
  • III — The Ethics of Society
  • 1. Morality as Social Structure
  • 2. The Covert Moral Structure
  • 3. The Overt Moral Structure
  • 4. Rights and Duties
  • 5. The Law and Legal Procedures
  • IV — The Ethics of the Human Species
  • 1. From Society to Humanity
  • 2. Characteristics of the Human Species
  • 3. The Morality of the Human Species
  • 4. Moral Encounters with Near-by Species
  • V — The Ethics of the Cosmos
  • 1. The Cosmic Perspective
  • 2. The Cosmic Good
  • 3. Truth and Value
  • 4. Cosmic Type Responsibility
  • 5. Cosmic Confrontation
  • 6. Normative Cosmic Ethics
  • 7. The Ethics of Man in Relation to the Cosmos
  • Book Three — The Moral Situation and Its Outcome
  • VI — Ideal Morality
  • 1. The Choice of Ideals
  • 2. Individual Ideals
  • 3. Social Ideals
  • 4. Human Ideals
  • 5. Cosmic Ideals
  • VII — Concrete Morality
  • 1. Bad Behavior and Immorality
  • 2. Bad Individual Behavior
  • 3. Bad Social Behavior
  • 4. Bad Species Behavior
  • 5. Bad Cosmic Behavior
  • VIII — Moral Strategy
  • 1. The Uses of Strategy
  • 2. The Strategy of Individual Obligation
  • 3. The Strategy of Social Obligation
  • 4. The Strategy of Human Obligation
  • 5. The Strategy of Cosmic Obligation
  • Name Index
  • Topic Index