An Enquiry into Moral Notions / / John Laird.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Laird, John,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1936]; ©1936
• Year of Publication: 1936
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; Part I. Virtue or the Theory of Aretaics --; I. General Considerations --; II. Classification of the Virtues --; III. The Springs of Virtue: And Their Expression --; IV. The Heart and the Head --; V. The Heart and the Will --; VI. Moral and Non-Moral Virtue --; VII. Our Knowledge of Virtue --; Part II. Duty or the Theory of Deontology --; VIII. Discussion of Conceptions --; IX. Duty and the Will --; X. Classification of Voluntary Obligations --; XI. Some Problems About Obligation --; XII. Duty and Benefit: A Restricted Discussion --; XIII. The Greatness and Conflict of Obligations --; Part III. Benefit and Well-Being Which in the Form of Well-Doing May Be Called Agathopoeics --; XIV. The Terms Employed --; XV. Classification of Goods --; XVI. The Comparison of Goods --; XVII. Duty and Benefit Again --; XVIII. Further Discussion of Utilitarianism --; XIX. Of Agathopoeics in General --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231878050; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/lair90300
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: John Laird.

Compares and examines what John Laird termed the 'three most important notions in ethical science': the concepts of virtue, duty and well-being. Poses the question of whether any one of these three concepts is capable of being the foundation of ethics and of supporting the other two.