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Rist, John M.

 
9780521006088: Real Ethics: Reconsidering the Foundations of Morality
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ISBN 10: 0521006082 ISBN 13: 9780521006088
Editorial: Cambridge University Press, 2012

Sinopsis

John Rist surveys the history of ethics from Plato to the present and offers a vigorous defence of an ethical theory based on a revised version of Platonic realism. In a wide-ranging discussion he examines well-known alternatives to Platonism, in particular Epicurus, Hobbes, Hume and Kant as well as contemporary 'practical reasoners', and argues that most post-Enlightenment theories of morality (as well as Nietzschean subversions of such theories) depend on an abandoned Christian metaphysic and are unintelligible without such grounding. He also argues that contemporary choice-based theories, whether they take a strictly ethical or more obviously political form, are ultimately arbitrary in nature. His lively and accessible 2001 study is informed by a powerful sense of philosophical history, and will be of interest to both students and scholars of ethics.

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John Rist is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Classics, University of Toronto. His publications include Augustine: Ancient Thought Baptized (1994) and many journal articles.

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Editorial
Cambridge University Press
Año de publicación
2012
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Inglés
ISBN 10 
0521006082
ISBN 13 
9780521006088
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Número de páginas
304
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