Research Catalog

Title

Real ethics : reconsidering the foundations of morality / John M. Rist.

Author

Rist, John M.

Publication

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

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Description

viii, 295 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

John Rist surveys the history of ethics from Plato to the present and offers a vigorous defence of an ethical theory based on a revised version of Platonic realism. In a wide-ranging discussion he examines well-known alternatives to Platonism, in particular--Epicurus, Hobbes, Hume and Kant, as well as contemporary "practical reasoners". His accessible study is enhanced by a strong sense of philosophical history, and will be of interest to students and scholars of ethics.

Subject

• Ethics
• Realism
• Ethics > History
• Moral realism

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-291) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Moral nihilism: Socrates vs. Thrasymachus -- Morals and metaphysics -- The soul and the self -- Division and its remedies -- Rules and applications -- The past, present and future of practical reasoning -- Autonomy and choice -- Ethics and ideology -- God and ethics.

ISBN

• 0521809215 (hc)
• 0521006082 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2001035254

OCLC

46810870

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library