A guide to ethics and moral philosophy / Brent Adkins.

How should we live? How should we act? How might we live? These are the three questions of moral philosophy. Brent Adkins traces the history of ethics and morality by examining six thinkers: Aristotle, Spinoza, Kant, Mill, Nietzsche, and Levinas. The book is divided into 3 sections: Ethics, Morality...

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Main Author: Adkins, Brent, 1969- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2017]
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Summary:How should we live? How should we act? How might we live? These are the three questions of moral philosophy. Brent Adkins traces the history of ethics and morality by examining six thinkers: Aristotle, Spinoza, Kant, Mill, Nietzsche, and Levinas. The book is divided into 3 sections: Ethics, Morality and Beyond. Two thinkers are paired in each section to show you how the important questions of moral philosophy have been answered so that you might better answer them for yourself. You'll learn what the philosophers actually said about how to live the best kind of life and, more importantly, why--
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 172 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-168) and index.
ISBN:9781474422796
1474422799
1474422802
9781474422802
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.