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- catalog contributor b3222169.
- catalog created "[1956]".
- catalog date "1956".
- catalog date "[1956]".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "[1956]".
- catalog description "I. Scope and method of the book : The aim is to analyse [analyze] philosophically concept of value, such as 'good' and 'right', in their conventional uses with reference to human conduct and character -- II. A survey of theories in ethics : A classification of theories ; Brief objections to all except a descriptive, unitary theory of the type of universal, affective, objective naturalism ; The relation of my theory to utilitarianism. -- III. Dismissal of objections to all naturalistic theories : None of the sweeping objections made by G. E. Moore and others against ethical naturalism as such is conclusive -- IV. Classification of value concepts : The interrelations of 'value', 'good', 'beauty', 'right' 'intrinsic' and 'instrumental' -- V. Intrinsic good : This concept is defined in terms of individual satisfaction -- VI. Total good : This concept is defined in terms of maximum satisfaction of everyone, combined with just distribution ; Justice is related to equality".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [212]-230) and index.".
- catalog description "VII. Ethical good : Good as applied to acts and will; in what sense the latter is dependent on the former. -- VIII. Definitions of 'right' and related terms : 'Right', 'duty' and 'ought' are defined in terms of maximum good; the empirical reference of these concepts; a solution ; Analysis of some supposed 'synthetic a priori' axioms of morality. -- IX. Inductive problems about 'right' : Difficulties about particular cases of right and wrong -- X. Conflicts of happiness and justice : Cases of distribution of rewards and punishments raise a difficulty about the relation of happiness and justice in the concept of 'right' ; Discussion is the difficulty. -- XI. Ethical judgments : How do we know what is right? ; The place of rules in ethical judgment. -- XII. Ethical disagreement : Problems set by apparently divergent ethical concepts in different civilizations ; The extent to which these problems can be answered by a unitary theory of ethics; illustrations concerning liberalism and socialism, communism, Japanese Shinto, Judaism, Islam, Christianity.".
- catalog extent "233 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Ethical value.".
- catalog isFormatOf "Ethical value.".
- catalog issued "1956".
- catalog issued "[1956]".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press,".
- catalog relation "Ethical value.".
- catalog subject "170".
- catalog subject "BJ37 .H6".
- catalog subject "Ethics.".
- catalog subject "Values.".
- catalog tableOfContents "I. Scope and method of the book : The aim is to analyse [analyze] philosophically concept of value, such as 'good' and 'right', in their conventional uses with reference to human conduct and character -- II. A survey of theories in ethics : A classification of theories ; Brief objections to all except a descriptive, unitary theory of the type of universal, affective, objective naturalism ; The relation of my theory to utilitarianism. -- III. Dismissal of objections to all naturalistic theories : None of the sweeping objections made by G. E. Moore and others against ethical naturalism as such is conclusive -- IV. Classification of value concepts : The interrelations of 'value', 'good', 'beauty', 'right' 'intrinsic' and 'instrumental' -- V. Intrinsic good : This concept is defined in terms of individual satisfaction -- VI. Total good : This concept is defined in terms of maximum satisfaction of everyone, combined with just distribution ; Justice is related to equality".
- catalog tableOfContents "VII. Ethical good : Good as applied to acts and will; in what sense the latter is dependent on the former. -- VIII. Definitions of 'right' and related terms : 'Right', 'duty' and 'ought' are defined in terms of maximum good; the empirical reference of these concepts; a solution ; Analysis of some supposed 'synthetic a priori' axioms of morality. -- IX. Inductive problems about 'right' : Difficulties about particular cases of right and wrong -- X. Conflicts of happiness and justice : Cases of distribution of rewards and punishments raise a difficulty about the relation of happiness and justice in the concept of 'right' ; Discussion is the difficulty. -- XI. Ethical judgments : How do we know what is right? ; The place of rules in ethical judgment. -- XII. Ethical disagreement : Problems set by apparently divergent ethical concepts in different civilizations ; The extent to which these problems can be answered by a unitary theory of ethics; illustrations concerning liberalism and socialism, communism, Japanese Shinto, Judaism, Islam, Christianity.".
- catalog title "Ethical value / by George F. Hourani.".
- catalog type "text".