Understanding Human Goods : : A Theory of Ethics / / Sophie Grace Chappell.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Chappell, Sophie Grace ,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --; A SUMMARY OF THE ARGUMENT --; 1 • THREE FOUNDATIONAL QUESTIONS FOR ETHICS --; 2 • THE BASIC GOODS --; 3 • THE THREEFOLD SCHEMA --; 4 • PERSONS AND IDENTITIES --; 5 • TWO CONCEPTIONS OF THE GOOD --; 6 • NARRATIVE CONCEPTIONS EXAMINED --; CONCLUSIONS --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780585086729; 9783110780475
• DOI: 10.1515/9780585086729
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Sophie Grace Chappell.

The human world is alive with different sorts of goods - the multifarious things we all see as worth achieving or celebrating by our action and in our living. Timothy Chappell argues that we can't live well, still less think well about ethics, if we don't properly understand these issues. Venturing into new ground, he surveys the central topics in philosophy, providing an historical and philosophical map of the major themes. From utilitarianism, Kantianism, virtue ethics, personal identity, Parfitian reductionism, animals, abortion and euthanasia, to free will and the meaning of life itself, he takes us on an original and thought-provoking journey through ethics.