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 | | Morality and Action (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy) by Warren Quinn ISBN-10: 9780521441643 ISBN-10: 0-521-44164-1 ISBN-13: 9780521441643 ISBN-13: 978-0-521-44164-3 Hardcover 1994-01-28 Cambridge University Press Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description Warren Quinn was widely regarded as a moral philosopher of remarkable talent. This collection of his most important contributions to moral philosophy and the philosophy of action has been edited for publication by Philippa Foot. Quinn laid out the foundations for an anti-utilitarian moral philosophy that was critical of much contemporary work in ethics, such as the anti-realism of Gilbert Harman and the neo-subjectivism of Bernard Williams. Quinn's own distinctive moral theory is developed in the discussion of substantial, practical moral issues. For example, there are important pieces here on the permissibility of abortion, the justification (if any) of punishing criminals when no particular good seems likely to result, and on the distinction between killing and allowing to die, a distinction crucial to the subject of euthanasia and other topics in medical ethics. The volume would be ideally suited to upper-level undergraduate courses and graduate seminars on the foundations of ethics. | ||
Book Description This collection of the most important contributions to moral philosophy and the philosophy of action by a renowned moral philosopher includes the development of his own distinctive moral theory in the discussion of substantial, practical moral issues. | ||
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An extraordinary book This is a wonderful book about ethics. It contains some acute discussion of the metaphysics and epistemology of ethics, and of normative issues like abortion and punishment. But it also includes a sustained and moving attack on "subjective" and economic theories of practical rationality. The final essays in this book are the best: profound relfections on virtue and the good life. Though this is a book of rigorous "analytic" philosophy, it is engagingly human: it may even change the way you live. | ||