About this title: Does human well-being consist in pleasure, the satisfaction of desires, or some set of goods such as knowledge, friendship, and accomplishment? Does being moral contribute to well-being, and is there a conflict between people's self-interest and the moral demands on them? Are the values of well-being and of morality measurable? Are such values objective? What is the relation between such values and the natural world? And how much can philosophical theory help us in our answers to these and similar questions? Issues such as these provide the focus for much of the work of James Griffin, White's ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780198235842ISBN:0198235844
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780198235842ISBN:0198235844
Description: BRAND NEW HARDBACK. 234x156 mm. This book is printed on demand. (allow 1-2 weeks for printing) (328) an international line-up of fourteen distinguished philosophers present new essays on topics relating to well-being and morality, prominent themes in contemporary ethics and particularly in the work of james griffin, white's professor of moral philosophy at oxford, in whose honour this volume has been produced. professor griffin offers a fascinating development of his own thinking on these ... read more
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780198235842ISBN:0198235844
Description: BRAND NEW HARDBACK. 328 pages. This book is printed on demand (allow 1-2 weeks for printing) an international line-up of fourteen philosophers present essays on topics relating to well-being and morality, themes in contemporary ethics and particularly in the work of james griffin, white's professor of moral philosophy at oxford. professor griffin offers a development of his own thinking on these topics in his replies to the essays. (Hardback) read more
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: MCGRAW HILL BOOK CO
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780198235842ISBN:0198235844
Description: An international line-up of fourteen distinguished philosophers presents new essays in honor of James Griffin, White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford University. The essays take up topics relating to well-being and morality, prominent themes... read more
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