Our Knowledge of Right and Wrong

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Routledge, Apr 4, 2014 - Philosophy - 408 pages
First published in 2002. This is Volume VI of twelve in the Library of Philosophy series on Ethics. Written in 1971, this text looks at our knowledge of right and wrong and looks at topics of whether our knowledge of morality is a delusion and asks questions around moral judgment and they are subjective, the Universalization principle of a moral sense, God's commandments and human duties and finishes with suggestions of other reasons for actions.
 

Contents

FirstOrderSecondOrder
13
Is Knowledge of Morality a Delusion?
20
Some Preliminary Distinctions
36
Moral Judgments as A Priori
69
Moral Judgments as Synthetic
108
Ideal Observer Theories
151
Gods Commands and Mans Duties
201
Morality and Moral Codes
229
Evolution and Ethics
239
NonPropositional Theories
250
Moral Judgment and Some Practical
261
To Be or Not To
304
Some Other Moral Judgments
341
Reasons for Actions
383
Index
400
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Jonathan Harrison

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