Value, obligation, and meta-ethics /

Value, obligation, and meta-ethics / / Robin Attfield.

This work defends an interrelated set of theses in value-theory, normative ethics and meta-ethics. The three Parts correspond to these three areas. Part One (Value) defends a biocentric theory of moral standing, and then the coherence and objectivity of belief in intrinsic value, despite recent obje...

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Superior document:Value inquiry book series ; Volume 30
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Attfield, Robin,
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam, Netherlands ;, Atlanta, Georgia : : Editions Rodopi B. V.,, [1995]
©1995
Year of Publication:1995
Language:English
Series:Value inquiry book series ; Volume 30.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Editorial Foreword
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Value
  • The Domain of Morality
  • What Is Intrinsic Value?
  • Essential Capacities
  • Worthwhile Lives
  • Priorities among Values
  • Obligation
  • Acting for the Best
  • The Limits of Obligation
  • Justice
  • Population and the Total View
  • Practice-Consequentialism and Its Critics
  • Meta-Ethics
  • Moral Cognitivism
  • Comparing Moral Outlooks
  • Foundations
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • About the Author
  • Index
  • VIBS.

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