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Title
The good life : an introduction to ethics / Wolfgang Pleger ; contributions by Barbara Pleger.
ISBN
9783476059697 electronic book
3476059693 electronic book
9783476059680
3476059685
Published
Berlin, Germany : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (ix, 348 pages) : illustrations (black and white)
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-476-05969-7 doi
Call Number
BJ1012 .P54 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification
170
Summary
The book offers a historical-systematic overview of the most important concepts of ethics. From antiquity to modern times, from Plato to Habermas, each concept is represented by three to four historically significant positions of important thinkers. Central quotations allow textual access to the respective position, which is explained compactly and vividly. With the title "The Good Life" the author points to the anthropological basis of all ethics. The book is interdisciplinary in nature, incorporating philosophical approaches as well as those from the fields of theology, biology, psychology, sociology, and politics. For the 2nd edition, the book has been expanded to include chapters on pedagogical ethics as well as universal human rights. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence. The author (with the support of Barbara Pleger) has subsequently revised the text further in an endeavour to refine the work stylistically.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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I. Ancient ethics of happiness
II. Faith and reason: Philosophical-theological ethics
III. Moral feeling - Ethics and metaethics
IV. Practical reason - The ethics of duty
V. Happiness and utility - Utilitarianism
VI. Ethics of values
VII. The development of morality - Genetic concepts of ethics
VIII. Education and formation - Pedagogical ethics
IX. Concepts of radical moral criticism
X. Between ideology and reason - on political ethics
XI. Responsibility and discourse ethics
XII. Ethics and universal human rights.
