Understanding Human Goods: A Theory of Ethics - Softcover

Timothy Chappell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0748610286 ISBN 13: 9780748610280

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 1998

Synopsis

The human world is alive with different sorts of goods--the multifarious things we all see as worth achieving or celebrating by our action and in our living. Timothy Chappell argues that we can't live well, still less think well about ethics, if we don't properly understand these issues. Venturing into new ground, he surveys the central topics in philosophy, providing an historical and philosophical map of the major themes. From utilitarianism, Kantianism, virtue ethics, personal identity, Parfitian reductionism, animals, abortion and euthanasia, to free will and the meaning of life itself, he takes us on an original and thought-provoking journey through ethics.

About this title

About the Author:

T D J Chappell is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Dundee

Review:

A serious contribution to moral philosophy. I am most impressed by Chappell's originality and argumentative clarity.

About this edition

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0748610286
• ISBN 13: 9780748610280
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256