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9780198244479

Plural and Conflicting Values

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    9780198244479

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    0198244479

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1990-03-08
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

Plural values and conflicting values are often held to be conceptually problematic, threatening the very possibility of ethics, or at least of rational ethics. This book rejects this view.The author first demonstrates why it is so important to understand the issues raised by plural and conflicting values. This includes a full discussion of Aristotle's treatment of the issues. He then goes on to show that plurality and conflict are commonplace and generally unproblematic features ofour everyday choice and action, and that they do allow for a sound and rational ethic.

Table of Contents

Plurality and choice
Monism, pluralism, and conflict
Conflict
Maximization
Ought and can
Act and agent evaluations
Akrasia: The unity of the good, commensurability, and comparability
Courage, the doctrine of the mean, and the possibility of emotional and evaluative coherence
Dirty hands and ordinary life
Dirty hands and conflicts of value and desires in Aristotle's ethics
Friendship and morality: some difficult relations
Some problems with counter-examples in ethics
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