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- catalog abstract ""James Griffin asks how, and how much, we can improve our ethical standards - not lift our behaviour closer to our standards but refine the standards themselves. To give an answer to this question it is necessary to answer most of the questions of ethics. So Value Judgement includes discussion of what a good life is like, where the boundaries of the 'natural world' come, how values relate to that world, how great human capacities - the ones important to ethics - are, and where moral norms come from." "Throughout the book the question of what philosophy can contribute to ethics repeatedly arises. Philosophical traditions, such as most forms of utilitarianism and deontology and virtue ethics, are, Griffin contends, too ambitious. Ethics cannot be what philosophers in those traditions expect it to be because agents cannot be what their philosophies need them to be." "This clear, compelling, and original account of ethics will be of interest to anyone concerned with thinking about values: not only philosophers but legal, political, and economic theorists as well."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b9637172.
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description ""James Griffin asks how, and how much, we can improve our ethical standards - not lift our behaviour closer to our standards but refine the standards themselves. To give an answer to this question it is necessary to answer most of the questions of ethics. So Value Judgement includes discussion of what a good life is like, where the boundaries of the 'natural world' come, how values relate to that world, how great human capacities - the ones important to ethics - are, and where moral norms come from." "Throughout the book the question of what philosophy can contribute to ethics repeatedly arises. Philosophical traditions, such as most forms of utilitarianism and deontology and virtue ethics, are, Griffin contends, too ambitious. Ethics cannot be what philosophers in those traditions expect it to be because agents cannot be what their philosophies need them to be." "This clear, compelling, and original account of ethics will be of interest to anyone concerned with thinking about values: not only philosophers but legal, political, and economic theorists as well."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Improving our ethical beliefs -- The good life -- The boundaries of the natural world -- Value and nature -- A simple moral thought -- Agents -- Some complex moral ideas -- How can we improve our ethical beliefs?".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-175) and index.".
- catalog extent "xii, 180 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Value judgement.".
- catalog identifier "0198235534 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Value judgement.".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog relation "Value judgement.".
- catalog subject "170/.42 20".
- catalog subject "BD232 .G667 1996".
- catalog subject "Values.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Improving our ethical beliefs -- The good life -- The boundaries of the natural world -- Value and nature -- A simple moral thought -- Agents -- Some complex moral ideas -- How can we improve our ethical beliefs?".
- catalog title "Value judgement : improving our ethical beliefs / James Griffin.".
- catalog type "text".