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Author:   Michael Slote (Professor of Ethics, Professor of Ethics, University of Miami)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.90cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 16.30cm
Weight:   0.635kg
ISBN:  

9780195391435

ISBN 10:   0195391438
Pages:   344
Publication Date:   28 January 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1: The Theory of Important Criteria 2: Value Judgments and the Theory of Important Criteria 3: The Rationality of Aesthetic Value Judgments 4: Inapplicable Concepts 5: Morality and Ignorance 6: Time in Counterfactuals 7: Assertion and Belief 8: Understanding Free Will 9: Selective Necessity and the Free-Will Problem 10: Is Virtue Possible? 11: Morality Not a System of Imperatives 12: Review of Alvin Plantinga's God and Other Minds 13: Utilitarianism, Moral Dilemmas, and Moral Cost 14: Object Utilitarianism 15: Utilitarian Virtue 16: Moderation, Rationality, and Virtue 17: Rational Dilemmas and Rational Supererogation 18: Ethics Naturalized 19: Nietzsche and Virtue Ethics 20: Caring Versus the Philosophers 21: Global Caring, Global Justice 22: Empathy and Objectivity 23: In Place of Moral Reasoning 24: Some Thoughts for the Future

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<br> Slote's reflections offer some real insights, sometimes into the philosophers he considers, but more into the nature of moral thought in general. --Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews<p><br>

<br> Slote's reflections offer some real insights, sometimes into the philosophers he considers, but more into the nature of moral thought in general. --Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews<br>

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Michael Slote is Professor of Ethics at the University of Miami.

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