Value Judgement - Improving Our Ethical Beliefs (Paperback, Revised)

James Griffin asks how, and how much, we can improve our ethical standards, not lift our behaviour closer to our standards but refine the standards themselves. To give an answer to this question it is necessary to answer most of the questions of ethics. The book includes discussion of what a good life is like, where the boundaries of the "natural world" come, how values relate to that world, how great human capacities, or the ones important to ethics are, and where moral norms come from. Throughout the book the question of what philosophy can contribute to ethics repeatedly arises. Philosophical traditions, such as most forms of utilitarianism and deontology and virtue ethics, are, Griffin contends, too ambitious. Ethics cannot be what philosophers in those traditions expect it to be because agents cannot be what their philosophies need them to be.

General

Imprint:	Clarendon Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	1998
First published:	May 1998
Authors:	James Griffin (White's Professor of Moral Philosophy)
Dimensions:	217 x 137 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	192
Edition:	Revised
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-875231-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General Promotions
LSN:	0-19-875231-8
Barcode:	9780198752318

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