TY  - BOOK
AU  - Blackburn,Simon
TI  - Being good: an introduction to ethics 
SN  - 9780192100528
AV  - BJ1012 .B535 2001
U1  - 170 23
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Ethics
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-159) and index; Preface. List of Illustrations. Introduction. Seven Threats to Ethics. 1: The Threat of the Death of God. 2: The Threat of Relativism. 3: The Threat of Egoism. 4: The Threat from Evolutionary Theory. 5: The Threat of Determinism and Futility. 6: The Threat of Unreasonable Demands. 7: The Threat of False Consciousness. Some Ethical Ideas. 8: Birth. 9: Death. 10: Desire and the Meaning of Life. 11: Pleasure. 12: The Greatest Happiness of the Greatest Number. 13: Freedom from the Bad. 14: Freedom and Paternalism. 15: Rights and Natural Rights. Foundations?. 16: Reasons and Foundations. 17: Living Well and Doing Good. 18: The Categorical Imperative. 19: Contracts and Discourse. 20: The Common Point of View. 21: Confidence Restored. Further Reading. Index

N2  - A short introduction to ethics, in three parts. The first discusses reasons for scepticism about ethics; the second introduces birth, death, happiness, desire and freedom, to show how our lives are interwoven with ethics, and the third examines attempts to found ethics

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