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Ethics within reason : a neo-gewirthian approach
- Title
- Ethics within reason : a neo-gewirthian approach / Edward H. Spence.
- Author
- Spence, Edward, 1949-
- Publication
- Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, c2006.
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- Description
- xiv, 457 p.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [443]-449) and index.
- Contents
- The justification of the theory -- Gewirth's argument for the principle of generic consistency -- Objections to Gewirth's argument -- Positive rights and community -- Agents and persons : the dignity-conferring value of rights -- A reconstruction of Gewirth's argument for the PGC around the concept of self-respect -- The unity of the right and the good : rights, virtues, and sentiments -- The unity of the right and the good -- Conflicts of duties : special obligations -- The resolution of the conflict between self-interest and morality -- Justification, motivation, and compliance -- The conflict between self-interest and morality -- The practical application of the theory : a neo-stoic perspective -- The ethical foundations of professional practice -- The application of the PGC in professional ethics -- The neo-stoicism of Gewirth's rationalist ethics.
- ISBN
- 0739112384 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006011397
- 9780739112380
- OCLC
- ocm66527016
- SCSB-1402536
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library