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Title

Ethics within reason : a neo-gewirthian approach / Edward H. Spence.

Author

Spence, Edward, 1949-

Publication

Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, [2006], ©2006.

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Description

xiv, 457 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"In Ethics Within Reason, Edward H. Spence combats the attack against Alan Gewirth's argument for the Principle of Generic Consistency. Through a close reading of Reason and Morality (1978), Spence uses his voice to give Gewirth's work a unique contemporary style and meaning while still holding fast to substantial features of moral principle: free will and purpose."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Gewirth, Alan > Reason and morality
• Ethics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [443]-449) and index.

Contents

Pt. I. The justification of the theory -- 1. Gewirth's argument for the principle of generic consistency -- 2. Objections to Gewirth's argument -- 3. Positive rights and community -- Pt. II. Agents and persons : the dignity-conferring value of rights -- 4. A reconstruction of Gewirth's argument for the PGC around the concept of self-respect -- Pt. III. The unity of the right and the good : rights, virtues, and sentiments -- 5. The unity of the right and the good -- 6. Conflicts of duties : special obligations -- Pt. IV. The resolution of the conflict between self-interest and morality -- 7. Justification, motivation, and compliance -- 8. The conflict between self-interest and morality -- Pt. V. The practical application of the theory : a neo-stoic perspective -- 9. The ethical foundations of professional practice : the application of the PGC in professional ethics -- 10. The neo-stoicism of Gewirth's rationalist ethics.

ISBN

0739112384 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2006011397
• 9780739112380

OCLC

• OCM66527016
• SCSB-5278754

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries