Fundamentals of Ethics Finnis John
Fundamentals of Ethics Finnis John Are we entitled to be confident that our moral judgements can be objective? Why must we consider some of our choices to be free, and how do our free choices matter?…
Specifikacia Fundamentals of Ethics Finnis John
Fundamentals of Ethics Finnis John
Are we entitled to be confident that our moral judgements can be objective? Why must we consider some of our choices to be free, and how do our free choices matter? Can they express insights into aspects of reality, rather than mere feelings, tastes, desires, decisions, upbringing, or conventions?
Can utilitarianism, and other consequentialist or proportionalist theories, be anything more than the rationalization of positions taken on other grounds?The main theme of this book is the challenge to ethics from philosophical scepticism and from contemporary forms of consequentialism. How far should our moral judgements be based on assessments of expected consequences? But in seeking to meet this challenge, the book develops a sustained philosophical argument about many of the central questions of ethics.
It reviews classical positions, and challenges some long-influential