Introduction To Ethics: Including A Critical Survey Of Moral Systems - Softcover

Théodore Simon Jouffroy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 037132890X ISBN 13: 9780371328903

Publisher: HardPress, 2019

Synopsis

Introduction To Ethics: Including A Critical Survey Of Moral Systems by Théodore Simon Jouffroy. The work provides a systematic examination of ethical science grounded in psychology and designed to survey and evaluate moral systems across history. Jouffroy outlines four grand relations that structure ethical inquiry—man’s relation to God, to himself, to things, and to his fellow beings—and then presents a critical survey of major ethical frameworks, including system of necessity, mysticism, pantheism, skepticism, and the selfish theory of Hobbes. The translator explains that the French school employs eclectic methods to compare theories, judging them by their adherence to observed facts of human nature and to the end of moral life, which is universal order and the realization of absolute good. The lectures aim to establish moral law, duty, and rights as grounded in reason and experience, while tracing the historical evolution of ethical thought. The volume combines introductory theory with a map of moral philosophies and invites further study.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 037132890X
• ISBN 13: 9780371328903
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 366