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Hirst, Edward W.

 
9781330162231: Self and Neighbour (Classic Reprint): An Ethical Study: An Ethical Study (Classic Reprint)
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ISBN 10: 1330162234 ISBN 13: 9781330162231
Editorial: Forgotten Books, 2018

Sinopsis

This study argues that ethics must unite the self with its neighbors, not keep them separate. It reconstructs moral theory to bridge theory and practice through the idea of community.

The book examines how traditional ethics have treated virtue as something private, and it offers a reconstruction that centers on inter‑subjective life. It shows how the self and others influence moral choice, duty, and the common good, aiming to harmonize scientific and popular views of conduct.

- Reconsiders major moral theories to reveal how they treat self and other
- Explores the idea of the alter and the role of community in ethical life
- Examines common good, conscience, and inter‑subjective relations
- Applies the theory to everyday conduct, social life, and moral responsibility

Ideal for readers interested in philosophy, ethics, and theology who want a more social, integrated view of virtue and obligation.

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Excerpt from Self and Neighbour: An Ethical Study

The work that follows is a study in ethical theory. Its first part is historical and critical its second portion is a short essay in the Reconstruction of ethical doctrine.

A review of the chief classical theories of morals will reveal in them, we think, the presence of a common defect. They are defective, as we try to show, in that they regard virtue, like health, as something which refers essentially to the individual, and which can be privately attained they imply that a man may be good in himself and all alone. The Kantian, and indeed nearly all modern, theory,' says a recent writer, rests on the assumption that the individual is an end in himself.' 1 Few, of course, would dispute the fact that the individual is an end in himself in the sense that he is a moral agent, and is subject only to the constraint of his own conscience. Moralists, however, have tradition ally regarded the individual as an end in himself in a sense which seems to us inadmissible. They have virtually conceived his life as isolated and detached, and have supposed that, like some Robinson Crusoe, he could be good all alone.

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Excerpt from Self and Neighbour: An Ethical Study

The object of this book is to give an old principle of conduct a strengthened basis. It seems desirable to attempt this in view of the period of Reconstruction which is now dawning. 'Nowhere' says Prof. Percy Gardner in a recent work, 'is reconstruction more necessary than in the ethical foundations of conduct. How unsatisfactory these foundations have been in modern States, the course of the war itself has shown, when every nation has been accusing its opponent of utter want of principle.'

In addition to the special demand of the present crisis, the fact that in popular thought the test of goodness has increasingly come to be social, calls for a reconsideration of traditional moral theory, which since the time of Hume has been mostly individualistic in its cast.

This discrepancy between moral ideals is also revealed whenever Philosophical and Christian Ethics are compared. Such divergence is a source of perplexity to many, especially to junior Theological students, as the writer can bear witness from a ten years' experience of teaching.

It is hoped, therefore, that this Essay may succeed in supplying the principle of Fraternity with a somewhat firmer foundation, that it may harmonise scientific with popular views of conduct, and that it may lessen, if not entirely remove, the gap that has too long existed between the ethics of theory and of authority.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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