Vices, virtues, and consequences : essays in moral and political philosophy by Simpson, Peter, 1951- instant download

Vices, virtues, and consequences : essays in moral and political philosophy by Simpson, Peter, 1951- instant download

xii, 283 pages ; 24 cm, \"Vices, Virtues, and Consequences offers a broad study of the basic and universal issues in ethics and politics, the issues of what the human good is and how to attain it and avoid its opposite. These questions have long been debated and are no less debated today. However, according to author Peter Phillips Simpson, within the mainstream of Anglo-American modern philosophy they have been debated too narrowly. This narrowness is one of our modern vices, and it does much to encourage other vices, in particular that of despair of universal and objective reason. The essays in this collection not only attack these vices, but also attempt to replace them with the contrary virtues.\"--Jacket, Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-276) and index, A century of modern Anglo-American moral philosophy -- Modern autonomous morality and the idea of the noble -- On doing wrong, modern-style -- Justice, consequences, and Cicero -- Virtue ethics and Aristotle -- The naturalistic fallacy and Saint Thomas -- Practical thinking and Saint Thomas -- Politics and nature -- Political authority and moral education -- Tyrants and gods -- Liberalism, state, and community -- Freedom and representation: finding the mean -- Natural law, abortion, and civil disobedience -- Just war theory and the IRA -- Becoming gods: the work of persons