Ethics and the quest for wisdom

Ethics and the quest for wisdom / Robert Kane.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kane, Robert, 1938-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Subjects:	Ethics, Modern. Ethics. Wisdom.
Online Access:	Contributor biographical information Publisher description Table of contents only

Table of Contents:

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 and Kantianism
16. The good and the right (II): utilitarianism and consequentialism
17. The good and the right (III): contractualism
18. Politics, public morality and law: justice, care and virtue.