Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: pluralism and uncertainty
- 2 Openness
- 3 The retreat
- 4 The moral sphere
- 5 Fact and value
- 6 Value experiments
- 7 Virtues, excellences and forms of life
- 8 The fourth dimension
- 9 Aspiration
- 10 Wisdom
- 11 Objective worth
- 12 The Bach crystals
- 13 Human flourishing
- 14 The Faust legend and the mosaic
- 15 The good and the right (I): intuitionism, Kantianism
- 16 The good and the right (II): utilitarianism, consequentialism
- 17 The good and the right (III): contractualism
- 18 Politics, public morality and law: justice, care and virtue
- References
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: pluralism and uncertainty
- 2 Openness
- 3 The retreat
- 4 The moral sphere
- 5 Fact and value
- 6 Value experiments
- 7 Virtues, excellences and forms of life
- 8 The fourth dimension
- 9 Aspiration
- 10 Wisdom
- 11 Objective worth
- 12 The Bach crystals
- 13 Human flourishing
- 14 The Faust legend and the mosaic
- 15 The good and the right (I): intuitionism, Kantianism
- 16 The good and the right (II): utilitarianism, consequentialism
- 17 The good and the right (III): contractualism
- 18 Politics, public morality and law: justice, care and virtue
- References
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Ethics and the Quest for Wisdom , pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010