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Ethics and the limits of philosophy / Bernard Williams.
- Title
- Ethics and the limits of philosophy / Bernard Williams.
- Author
- Williams, Bernard, 1929-2003
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1985.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | BJ1012 .W52 1985 | Off-site | |
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- Additional Authors
- Rawls, John, 1921-2002
- Description
- ix, 230 p.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- In this book Bernard Williams delivers a sustained indictment of moral theory from Kant onward. His goal is nothing less than to reorient ethics toward the individual. He deals with the most thorny questions in contemporary philosophy and offers new ideas about issues such as relativism, objectivity, and the possibility of ethical knowledge. --
- Subject
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. [205]-224.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Socrates' question -- The Archimedean point -- Foundations : well-being -- Foundations : practical reason -- Styles of ethical theory -- Theory and prejudice -- The linguistic turn -- Knowledge, science, convergence -- Relativism and reflection -- Morality, the peculiar institution.
- ISBN
- 0674268571 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^84023479^//r88
- OCLC
- 11398761
- SCSB-10182498
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library